Research league teams playing overseas games

[killer]

there's a bit in the East Perth history book (1976 edition)
about a game between East Perth and Subiaco in.... India

I assume this must have been promotion for air india

no date given, pictures look early 70's

are there any earlier overseas games between Australian league teams?

 

[SJ]

there's a bit in the East Perth history book (1976 edition)
about a game between East Perth and Subiaco in.... India

I assume this must have been promotion for air india

no date given, pictures look early 70's

are there any earlier overseas games between Australian league teams?

Photos: http://innopac.slwa.wa.gov.au/record=b2416508#.VFq7APmUfGs

 

[Minka Beaver]

Geelong and Melbourne played each other in Honolulu and San Francisco in 1963.

http://www.heraldsun.com.au/sport/afl/afl-overseas/story-e6frf9jf-1226628659863

 

[Supermercado]

Given that New Zealand played the 1908 carnival are there any records of teams going there to play before Aussie Rules started to die out?

 

[killer]

Melbourne played 2 games in 1961
can't find one earlier than that

http://demonwiki.org/tiki-index.php?page=1961

 

[Supermercado]

Anybody have info about Melbourne vs West Coast in Portland in 1990? All I know is that we won by heaps (http://demonwiki.org/1990 Exhibition Match vs West Coast) but have never seen a mention of this game otherwise - there's footage of games in Vancouver/Toronto/Miami etc but nothing on this as far as I know.

 

[killer]

George Cathie from Hawthorn was pushing
for a tour of the America in the 1930s

lack of a suitable ground in California killed the idea

http://trove.nla.gov.au/ndp/del/article/29954389

http://trove.nla.gov.au/ndp/del/article/49507430

 

[the croucher]

Anybody have info about Melbourne vs West Coast in Portland in 1990? All I know is that we won by heaps (http://demonwiki.org/1990 Exhibition Match vs West Coast) but have never seen a mention of this game otherwise - there's footage of games in Vancouver/Toronto/Miami etc but nothing on this as far as I know.

Herald Sun 15 Oct 1990 p89

artificial turf, small ground, 15 per side
D Cuthbertson kicked 5, D Bennett 4

 

[Supermercado]

Herald Sun 15 Oct 1990 p89

artificial turf, small ground, 15 per side
D Cuthbertson kicked 5, D Bennett 4

Cheers for that. Good to know Cuthbertson's warmup for his brief 1991 rampage started in such a strange place.

 

[footyfan1978]

Carlton have played lots of times overseas.

Most strange location I remember seeing on tv was
November 3rd 1986 Japan Yokohama Stadium post season exhibition Carlton v. Hawthorn

 

[killer]

know anything about a proposed tour of England by a combine team in 1881?
There is a reference in the 1980 NFL championship program (p8)
but can't find anything on trove

 

[killer]

bali 1983