Toowoomba Soccer Honour Roll 1918
Paul Nicholls passed this Darling Downs Gazette article from 9 May 1918 via twitter. It is reproduced in full below. I have numbered the list to get the count right and make it easier to observe the...
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West Wallsend NSW Junior Champions 1913-14
It's a measure of the strength of Newcastle soccer that West Wallsend would win the NSW Junior Championship in 1913-14. But perhaps more significant is the number of these players who a few short years...
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Day 5: On Our Way to Wembley
The seemingly indefatigable Todd Blackwell picked me up from the Premier Hotel at 930 on 17 September and we drove through light Newcastle traffic to Johnston Park, the home of Westy, West Wallsend FC,...
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Soccer Honour Rolls
The discovery of the 1917 creation of the Merewether Advance Honour Board in Newcastle (abover) is a reminder that other First World War soccer honour boards were created around Australia. Several...
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Raiding the Rosebud Cupboard
Of the many great things I experienced on my recent trip to Newcastle was observing/sharing David McGaw's joy at the discovery of this little cache of photos in Adamstown Rosebud's clubrooms. The...
View Article100 years ago today 26 September 1919
World (Hobart, Tas. : 1918 - 1924), Friday 26 September 1919, page 8SOCCER.Final match in "Knockout Competition."—South Hobart v. Spartans, at Lindisfarne.—Should South Hobart seenre victory in this...
View ArticleMayeffa, Mazeppa? Newcastle historical soccer notes 16 May 1945
The following article is from page 15 of the Newcastle Sun, 16 May 1945. It has some lists that are interesting to me and that might be interesting to some hstorians. I am particularly interested in...
View Article100 Years Ago Today 3 October 1919
Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate, Thursday 2 October 1919, page 3DISTRICT NEWS. GRETA. Returned soldiers of Greta and Cessnock met at Greta on Saturday, and played a game of Soccer...
View Article100 years ago today 10 October 1919
Independent (Footscray, Vic. : 1883 - 1922), Saturday 11 October 1919, page 3SOCIAL AND PERSONAL..... "Soccer" Player Returns. Mrs. Dunlop, of 13 Herbert-street, has received word that her son, Driver...
View ArticleAIF's FIRST BIG FOOTBALL MATCH IN PALESTINE
North-Eastern Advertiser, Tuesday 16 April 1940, page 3... Football with an international flavor has been added to the sporting activities of the A.I.F. The first match ot this kind was played by a...
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A Foray into eBay
I found these images of Australian and New Zealand national soccer teams on eBay. While they were overpriced considering the quality, I'm not all that unhappy I bought them. The lesson was worth it. I...
View ArticleIYKYH 10/10/19
I want to start with a shout out.It's my mother's birthday today. Happy birthday mum! She's 82 and yesterday I had my first sensible conversation with her in nearly a year. The dementia seems not to...
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Five Oz soccer books
A sample of the books I considered as possible inclusions.Asked by Jason, a listener to If You Know Your History for advice about good soccer books to read, Paul and I have come up with our own lists...
View ArticleSoccer at the Front: the 34th v The Tommies
This is a tremendous article that relays a letter from Peter Coppock, the Australian soldier and Merewether Advance footballer who participated in a game between the 34th Battalion from Newcastle and a...
View ArticleSoccer Footage at the Australian War Memorial
This post records some of the footage of substantial soccer content at the Australian War Memorial. They take two forms. The first is actual footage of soldiers playing soccer. The second is speeches...
View Article100 Years ago today 17 October 1919
Illawarra Mercury (Wollongong, NSW : 1856 - 1950), Friday 17 October 1919, page 2FOOTBALL.SOCCER.Adamstown and Koira met in the Nurse Cup Competition at Woonona on Saturday last. The former won after...
View ArticleLeague v Soccer Challenge 1946
This is a nice piece and is worth contrasting with a similar moment 18 years later in Melbourne when the stars of the VFL took on champion Melbourne team Slavia-Port Melbourne in a charity match at...
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Les Clisby: some notes
Telegraph, 27 April 1936, page 13MOST EXCLUSIVE CLUB IN THE WORLDYoung Pilot Eligible to Become a "Caterpillar" SYDNEY, April 27.The young Air Force pilot (Mr. L. R. Clisby), who saved his life with a...
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60Mark Boric Express https://twitter.com/MarkBoric/status/1184386698681057280Acknowledged by Simon Hill https://twitter.com/simonhill1894/status/1184433140846063617Sadly, Paul Nicholls won't be able to...
View Article100 year ago today 24 October 1919
Newcastle Sun, 24 October 1919, page 5FOOTBALLSoccer CodeThe fixtures are: — Kerr Cup Final. — West Wallsend v. Balmain Fernleigh, 3 p.m.; referee, Mr. W. Stott; linesmen, Messrs. R. Sklllings and R....
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