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How AF & religion are intertwined.
The answer to life's mysteries, oh devout ones.
The answer to life's mysteries, oh devout ones.
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1947 February 1 Sporting Globe
"Australian Rules football is in full swing in Japan amongst the Australians in the occupation forces.
Regular premiership games are played and winners of the RAAF completion for the past two seasons have been the 382 base squadron side.
A report from the secretary of the team Cpl R Winton tells that two seasons are played in a year
The 1946 title games ended in July last and another season has just finished due to the extreme cold.
Captain of the winning team for the double was Flt-Lt JM (Sandy) Sinclair former hawthorn player.
The vice-captain Sgt J E Tysoe was with Geelong"
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1947 February 1 Sporting Globe
"Australian Rules football is in full swing in Japan amongst the Australians in the occupation forces.
Regular premiership games are played and winners of the RAAF completion for the past two seasons have been the 382 base squadron side.
A report from the secretary of the team Cpl R Winton tells that two seasons are played in a year
The 1946 title games ended in July last and another season has just finished due to the extreme cold.
Captain of the winning team for the double was Flt-Lt JM (Sandy) Sinclair former hawthorn player.
The vice-captain Sgt J E Tysoe was with Geelong"
JAPANESE FOOTBALL PREMIERSHIP - Sporting Globe (Melbourne, Vic. : 1922 - 1954) - 1 Feb 1947
Australian Rules football [?] in full [?] in Japan amongst the Australians in the occupation [?]. Regular premiership games are played and winners of the RAFF competition for the past two season have been the ...
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Blar-dee atheist, Marxist intellectuals....Taking all
the fun out of our sport.
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Big Brother is watching .....Blar-dee atheist, Marxist intellectuals....Taking all
Supermercado
The straw that stirs the drink
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Bad kicking is bad football in 1952
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From Skase to Capper: How the Bears helped AFL sink its claws into Queensland
It was the '80s — the hair was big, life was large, and Aussie Rules were dirty words in Queensland. One man with a lot of cash to splash would change that.
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Has anyone posted the clash jumpers debate?
125 years and still no resolution
125 years and still no resolution
Hawthorn v Geelong: VFL grand final 1989 – retro liveblog
Goal-by-goal report: Hawthorn secured back-to-back premierships in arguably the greatest grand final in the history of the game
probably not a bad idea stick a tape on
of (??) grand final and write out a play by play commentary
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My favourite game: North Adelaide v Glenelg, 1987 SANFL grand final | Scott Heinrich
A crowd of 50,617 were present at Football Park to witness a masterclass by the Roosters
Thickly carpeted lounges
and a post decimal football world
and a post decimal football world
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The straw that stirs the drink
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1905, priest shows up late for wedding because of footy
Daily Telegraph April 1953
Rules Kick Rouses The Police - Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate (NSW : 1876 - 1954) - 20 Apr 1953
SYDNEY, Sunday.—An Australian Rules footballer started a burglar alarm ringing when ...
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'Alarming'Goal Kicker Summons Police - National Advocate (Bathurst, NSW : 1889 - 1954) - 20 Apr 1953
SYDNEY, Sunday: A footballer who kicked a goal during a match at Trumper Park, Sydney, this afternoon, raised the line umpires' flag and also ...
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Trumper Park
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Checker Hughes Anzac stories
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Sporting Globe (Melbourne, Vic. : 1922 - 1954) - 25 Apr 1953 - p4
“CHECKER” HUGHES TELL[?]N ANZAC DAY STORY; Football, guernsey made him a Tiger; All set to argue; One big family of youngsters; Ball walked into crack 1939 team; Let's remember heroic League stars who died at war; No “hero” to cobbers; Advertising; Advertising;
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Australian rules origins in queeensland
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Trouble with Harry
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THESE FOOTBALL CODES ! FIRST INTERCITY GAME HERE WAS
Much has been published recently regarding the origin of Australian Rules football which has "invaded" Brisbane for the Australian carnival. The code is by no means a new one so far as ...
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THESE FOOTBALL CODES ! THEN CAME THE
The "big shock" for followers of the old Rugby Union code came in 1908. Like the progress of a bushfire, the new Rugby game, styled the Rugby League, was introduced to Brisbane. Catching on at ...
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Trouble with Harry
THE TRIBUNAL AND ROUGH FOOTBALL IN MELBOURNE - Queensland Times (Ipswich, Qld. : 1909 - 1954) - 2 Jul 1954
Harry Collier, one of Collingwood's most provocative football stars, tells a Melbourne journalist some secrets of the tribunal which deals ...
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AUSTRALIAN FOOTBALL IN ENGLAND. - Bendigonian (Bendigo, Vic. : 1914 - 1918) - 9 May 1918
GROUP OF THE 2ND TRAINING BATTALION FOOTBALL TEAM, winners of the football championship arranged by the Y.M.C.A., in England. Names of players:—Back row, left, to right—L.-Cpl. H. Tidy (Rochester), Sgt. Wally Don (Shepparton and Essendon), Lt. Wally Lane (Rushworth), Pte. J. Peoples ...
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Alex Eason
Hard to read this one
Because Alex Eason was the Greatest Marauder in Football, they called him - ‘The Shag!’ - Sporting Globe (Melbourne, Vic. : 1922 - 1954) - 25 Mar 1939
THIS is the story of a great rover —perhaps in some respects the greatest rover known to Australian football. It you will ...
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Banana legs
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'BANANA LEGS' HATED HIS NICKNAME - The Herald (Melbourne, Vic. : 1861 - 1954) - 18 Sep 1954
ALLAN HOPKINS, of Footscray, who retired from League Football 20 years ago, still holds the title, "Football's Unluckiest Player." ...
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Is this just the Tele. being dramatic or did this happen?
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Man dies in stampede at football - The Daily Telegraph (Sydney, NSW : 1931 - 1954) - 24 Sep 1950
MELBOURNE, Sat.--A man died, 75 people fainted, and hundreds were cut or bruised at the Australian Rules Grand Final at Melbourne ...
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https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/244252217 (The Herald)Is this just the Tele. being dramatic or did this happen?
Man dies in stampede at football - The Daily Telegraph (Sydney, NSW : 1931 - 1954) - 24 Sep 1950
MELBOURNE, Sat.--A man died, 75 people fainted, and hundreds were cut or bruised at the Australian Rules Grand Final at Melbourne ...
https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/205377418 (The Age)
