Toast Best footy photos ever

[Shane Heard]

 

[Shane Heard]

Marvelous stuff man. Mr Brian Luke looks like he's been placed there in a cherry picker!

It’s the single shot photography that amazes me ...these days they just hold down the button and take 20 frames in seconds of digital clarity and choose the best one later.

Back in the day you had to be right on the spot to catch these incredible marks at their highest point.

 

[Shane Heard]

Great pic of the old stand at Victoria Park.

 

[Occidental]

The great Ron Todd.

 

[Shane Heard]

A story with rare insight into the brutality of the Leigh Matthews way of playing and how young players would be erased from the game before they even got started.

'He ran into Matthews and that was the end of him'

Historian Ross McMullin remembers footy’s past as a foreign country where they did things differently.

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[Occidental]

Brownlow Medallist Harry Collier goes flying after being hit by Melbourne’s Jim Abernathy. Gordon Coventry on the left.
1928 Semi Final MCG. Game was a draw.

 

[Shane Heard]

A Sherrin Match 11

1894 Collingwood Football Club

Good Condition - Usually protected by a glass dome, but the dome was kindly removed so this photo could be taken. Presented to Archie Smith for kicking 6.4 out of the clubs 8.11 against Carlton on September 15th 1894

 

[Shane Heard]

Domain Parked With VentraIP Australia

www.boylesfootballphotos.net.au

 

[Shane Heard]

Didn’t know this story...another prized North Melbourne recruit snatched from a rival power club..poor buggers.

Born in Salzburg, Austria to Ukrainian migrants who later emigrated to Australia and settled in Canberra, Alex played soccer and rugby at first, and was 14 before he discovered Aussie Rules. Only five years later, he was a star in the local competition for Eastlake. As soon as Carlton's scouts saw him, the Blues were very interested, but North Melbourne swooped first and signed him to play a number of games for them on match permits.

That was a rebuff, but Carlton's recruiters did not give up. After convincing Alex and his parents that Princes Park offered considerably more opportunities than Arden Street, a loophole was found in the regulations, and, much to the disgust of the Kangaroos, Carlton successfully contested North's agreement through the Australian National Football Council. In the summer of 1966, coach Ron Barassi welcomed Alex to Princes Park, where his form in training, and in the pre-season trial matches, was nothing short of sensational

Blueseum - History of the Carlton Football Club | Alex Jesaulenko

Blueseum: History of the Carlton Football Club

www.blueseum.org

 

[Shane Heard]

Love these old team photos from the 1800s.

Howlong Football Club spent twenty-nine years in the Chiltern and District League, missing the finals on only five occasions. They provided six League Best & Fairest winners (in addition to one in the Corowa and District League in 1930), won three premierships in succession, and competed in nine losing grand finals, three against Barnawatha and six against Chiltern. They finished in third place ten times, but only once finished fourth.




All in all the Club has competed for 106 seasons since 1898, being disbanded for three seasons and losing seven years to the wars.

 

[footyfan1978]

Great pic of the old stand at Victoria Park.
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Jack Silvagni's pop getting a handball off I assume ?

 

[Shane Heard]

Jack Silvagni's pop getting a handball off I assume ?

I think you’re correct there

 

[Baird]

Im glad teams dont swap jumpers anymore.

It would have looked horrible seeing Hurn/Shuey/JK etc in pies jumpers doing a lap.



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I used to think that players from both teams were celebrating with the cup

 

[Shane Heard]

A New South Wales player outmarks a Western Australian opponent in the goal square at the 1933 Australian Football Carnival at the Sydney Cricket Ground

 

[Buzz Hawk]

It’s the single shot photography that amazes me ...these days they just hold down the button and take 20 frames in seconds of digital clarity and choose the best one later.

Back in the day you had to be right on the spot to catch these incredible marks at their highest point.

Exactly right, it’s testament to the photographers skill, patience and let’s face it a little luck that we have these marvellous records.
That said, there must have been a huge amount of great images missed for the reasons you outline.

 

[Shane Heard]

Graham Farmer (Polly Farmer) leaps high to take a spectacular mark over Jack Clarke. Grand Final - East Perth versus East Fremantle. 1957

 

[Shane Heard]

Football crowd watching a game at Subiaco Oval, 1937

 

[Shane Heard]

Bob Shields

Games: 194 (Perth 187, WA 7)

Goals: 58 (Perth 58, WA 0)

Honours: Perth Premiership player 1966, 1967, 1968; Sandover Medal Runner Up 1970; PFC Most Outstanding Junior (Doug Buckingham Award) 1966; Perth Football Club Hall of Fame; Perth Team of the Century; PFC Life Member (1973)

 

[Shane Heard]

https://www.mcc.org.au/_/media/files/mcc/library/the-yorker_issue_45_spring_2011.pdf?la=en

 

[Shane Heard]

 

[Shane Heard]

Anniversary of 120 years of football - Football West Hall of Fame - GameDay

Anniversary of 120 years of football - Football West Hall of Fame - GameDay, fixtures, results, ladders, statistics, news and events for the Football Hall of Fame WA, on GameDay, the Home of Grassroots Sport

websites.sportstg.com

Soccer games/leagues completing against other sports in Perth in 1896 for grounds to play.

Now of course the entire city is dotted with soccer fields.


THE 120th anniversary of the first official football games to be staged in Western Australia will be reached on May 30.
The games between Crusaders and Fremantle Wanderers at Weld Square in Perth and Perth and Civil Service at Hyde Park Estate were held on May 30, 1896, and kicked off what was the first league season in WA.

It is remarkable to think the British Football Association of Western Australia (BFAWA) was formed on 13 May and the first round of fixtures kicked off just 17 days further on.
The new body had even struggled to find playing grounds, especially when the Perth Municipal Council had by now allocated their sparse resources to other winter sports.
What might surprise many was the amicable relationship football enjoyed with other sports – including Australian Rules.
The media especially had initially embraced the new football code.
“It is a very fine game indeed,” wrote ‘Central’ columnist for The West Australian (16 May 1896). “I would like to see it gain a footing in the colony, provided satisfactory arrangements as to the use of grounds can be arranged.” However, it wasn’t a one-season dilemma; football would have a playing venue headache for years to come.

Fremantle Wanderers team.

 

[Buzz Hawk]

Team officials in their dinner suits ha ha.

 

[Shane Heard]

 

[Shane Heard]

Team officials in their dinner suits ha ha.

Actually...that’s an article about soccer.

Should’ve known seeing there’s only 10 players lol

 

[Buzz Hawk]

Actually...that’s an article about soccer.

Should’ve known seeing there’s only 10 players lol

And the round ball! Although the footballs in those days, as you have shown, were somewhat more elliptical.