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Sporting Life April 1950
A half dozen stories on the VFL players of the day
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Sporting Life - April 1950
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Changi
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Changi Camp Had Its Football League - Sporting Globe (Melbourne, Vic. : 1922 - 1954) - 13 Oct 1945

The first—and last—annual report of the Changi Football League is probably the most historical sporting document to come out of the war. Typed on the back of a page-proof from an American ...
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That's the way the did it before the World Wide Web and Big footy
Yu'd write your dissey message on a egg and post it to Woolies


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This guy
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Bob Rahilly - Wikipedia

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The best of the "Sporting Print" Bill Mandle columns

Nowhere men 1979

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Australian Rules went nowhere in the 1970s - The Canberra Times (ACT : 1926 - 1995) - 21 Oct 1979

AUSTRALIAN Rules football is over for the 1970s. Of no other football code can this be said. Even though the soccer and rugby ...
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Alf Brown 1979

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Alf had the word on 34 VFL Grand Finals - The Canberra Times (ACT : 1926 - 1995) - 7 Oct 1979

ON Saturday, September 29, Alf Brown, of the Melbourne Herald, reported his 34th, and last, VFL Grand Final. He has ...
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End of the sporting world 1987

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The VFL match of the day just won't be the same - SPORTING PRINT - The Canberra Times (ACT : 1926 - 1995) - 29 Mar 1987

WHO would have thought that the first obvious consequence of Australia's great summer media shake-up would be the end of VFL match of the day as we've known it — ...
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i have a query..

What is that song Hawthorne sing in the 1980 "Club' Movie
the line "Jumping up and down like this..' (over and over)


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It's Sons of the Sea (also knocked off for the Footscray song). They probably either had to pay for the rights to Yankee Doodle Dandy or thought it would lead to more trouble than it was worth so they snatched something from public domain.

 
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Kim Klomp was a legendary Australian Rules football player in South Australia. Now he's living with a serious brain injury

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Vern Rae 1950

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In The Sporting Limelight - P.O.W's Amazing Comeback - Examiner (Launceston, Tas. : 1900 - 1954) - 30 Jun 1950

BUT FOR amazing courage, remarkable persistence and a genuine love for football, 34-year-old Vern Rae, a draftsman employed in the Forestry Department, Hobart, would ...
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Succession plans 1907

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LEAGUE FOOTBALL. - RUMOURED SECESSIONS. - The Empire (Fremantle, WA : 1907 - 1908) - 14 Sep 1907

Among sporting men in Melbourne there is a persistent rumour that the Carlton and South Melbourne football clubs intended to secede from the Victorian Football League ...
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Smoking

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PROFILE He used 'tenners' to light cigars - The Argus (Melbourne, Vic. : 1848 - 1957) - 8 Aug 1950

A CHOIR boy, who when he grew up lighted cigars with £10 notes, was one of Australia's greatest all-round footballers. He was Tom ...
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Don Fraser 1952

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The Argus (Melbourne, Vic. : 1848 - 1957) - 4 Jul 1952 - p5

HERE ARE THE FANGS IN THE TIGER'S JAW; RICHMOND IS A COLOR TEAM;
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FOOTBALL BRAWLS - Man jumps fence and hits Fraser - Sporting Globe (Melbourne, Vic. : 1922 - 1954) - 5 Jul 1952

Brawls colored today’s League football. At Collingwood a spectator jumped the fence in the last quarter and running 50 yards into the playing arena, hit Don Fraser, Richmond defender, from behind. ...
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THE GIRLS WERE ON HIS SIDE - The Argus (Melbourne, Vic. : 1848 - 1957) - 20 Aug 1952

Don "Mopsy" Fraser, Richmond full back, and one of the League's most ...
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Richmond sensation— Fraser suspended - The Argus (Melbourne, Vic. : 1848 - 1957) - 8 Oct 1952

In the football mystery of the season, Richmond Football Club committee last night ...
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Trove searching doesn't reveal as to why he was suspended by the club (gone to The VFA badlands from 1953)
 
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David Williamson's Managing Carman 2012

Managing Carmen | Stage Whispers

Stage Whispers is a Performing Arts Magazine and Website
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COW AT FOOTBALL MEETING. - The Argus (Melbourne, Vic. : 1848 - 1957) - 12 Aug 1911

DAYLESFORD, Friday.—While a meeting of the football club was in progress at the Royal Hotel last night, a cow, which had been driven into the building by some ...
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Mr Ironman 1953
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Football's 'Iron Man' - The Daily News (Perth, WA : 1882 - 1955) - 21 Sep 1953

MELBOURNE, Mon; Former South Melbourne and Oakleigh centre, Archie Baxter played in two ...
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abolish Carnivals 1932

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ABOLISH CARNIVALS. - AUSTRALIAN FOOTBALL MOVE - The Brisbane Courier (Qld. : 1864 - 1933) - 23 Aug 1932

At a meeting of the Queensland National Football League last evening a proposal was made that the triennial carnival should be abolished, and in their ...
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Bentleigh 1973

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Hoax call costs men $2,736 - The Canberra Times (ACT : 1926 - 1995) - 26 Oct 1973

ADELAIDE, Thursday. — Two members of the Bentleigh Football Club, Melbourne, ...
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End state games 1954

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[?] Put an end to state games - The Herald (Melbourne, Vic. : 1861 - 1954) - 21 Jun 1954

Saturday's fiasco at the Melbourne Cricket Ground should be the last interstate game to be inflicted on the Melbourne football public. Football followers do not like them. They show that by staying away. The previous week-end 174,538 saw six club ...
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Saturday Church 1891
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FOOTBALL AND VICE. - Geelong Advertiser (Vic. : 1859 - 1929) - 27 Jul 1891

The ministers and officers of the Lydiard-street Wesleyan Church at Ballarat have been giving serious consideration to the undue excitement attendant on the game of football, ...
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image from an auction site

wonder how many would have turned up to see Dandy v Centrals?

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Doug Nicholls preaching 1943

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Aborigines' Church In Melbourne Slums - The Evening Advocate (Innisfail, Qld. : 1941 - 1954) - 18 Feb 1943

MELBOURNE.--In the heart of some of Melbourne's worst slums in Fitzroy you will find the only church in Australia ...
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Youtube highlights of Norwood v Port Magpies 1973

Must be round 7




PNG Post-Courier 1978

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Rules booming in PNG - EXPATRIATE TIPS PNG TO BEAT VFL - Papua New Guinea Post-Courier (Port Moresby : 1969 - 1981) - 12 Apr 1978

Registration of players to play Australian rules in Papua New Guinea this year has ...
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VFL House of cards 1983

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AUSTRALIAN FOOTBALL Will the VFL's card house come tumbling down? - The Canberra Times (ACT : 1926 - 1995) - 8 Apr 1983

WHO'LL be Victorian Football League premier for 1983? Perhaps the more important question for the VFL may be: ...
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Big money 1947
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Footballer Wants 'Big Money' - The Daily News (Perth, WA : 1882 - 1955) - 2 Dec 1947

Whether tall, hefty Victorian footballer Marcus Royal plays in W.A. depends entirely on what financial inducements ace offered. Royal, who is 30, said today that he had only ...
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disaffected 1946
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BIG MONEY OFFERED. RON SAVAGE CLAIMS - The Herald (Melbourne, Vic. : 1861 - 1954) - 3 Jul 1946

HOBART.--Ron Savage, who has been refused a clearance to Hobart Football Club by Carlton said today that Carlton players would be interested in the amazing financial offer made to him to return to Carlton. ...
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Dookie Mckenzie (VFA 1900s)

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Worst Trouncing Was From An Unknown Lad - Sporting Globe (Melbourne, Vic. : 1922 - 1954) - 21 Sep 1935

TROUNCINGS! I have had several, but my worst was handed out by a comparative novice playing for Brunswick. ...
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Harry Chase (Brunswick 1901-1919)
No I'd never heard of him either
apparently one of the fastest wingers of the time


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FOR EIGHTEEN YEARS A FLYING MAGPIE - Sporting Globe (Melbourne, Vic. : 1922 - 1954) - 25 Mar 1939

THREE generations of football fans remember Henry Chase —the fastest man who ever put on a football boot. For 18 years he was Brunswick’s champion—a man feared by opponents not only in Victoria but in South Australia. ...
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killer said:
1000 goals

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Buddy champion: Country footy superstar welcomes Lance Franklin to exclusive 1000 goal club - ABC listen

How does it feel to kick 1000 big ones?
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