Research Random Footy History article thread (Trove/Google etc)

[megadeth86]

This article is about the author's preferred Western Australian state team from 1976-86, including reasons given for many of the choices and an interesting, controversial selection of coach - Mal Brown rather than John Todd, Haydn Bunton Junior or Ken Armstrong. Also interesting is that he excludes players who played one or more VFL/AFL games:

WAFL Football Golden Era: OPINION: "My Western Australian State Team, 1976-86, excluding players who played VFL/AFL", by Kieran James (revised version, 14/4/2015) (waflgoldenera.blogspot.com)

 

[killer]

This article is about the author's preferred Western Australian state team from 1976-86, including reasons given for many of the choices and an interesting, controversial selection of coach - Mal Brown rather than John Todd, Haydn Bunton Junior or Ken Armstrong. Also interesting is that he excludes players who played one or more VFL/AFL games:

WAFL Football Golden Era: OPINION: "My Western Australian State Team, 1976-86, excluding players who played VFL/AFL", by Kieran James (revised version, 14/4/2015) (waflgoldenera.blogspot.com)

Ever see a guy named Lyndsey McGuiness play for West Perth?
interested in your thoughts

 

[killer]

Couple of SANFL things I've stumbled on:

God bless the footy: dissent and distractions

Footy isn’t just the dominant spectator sport and topic of conversation in South Australia. It’s a salve.

theconversation.com

Footy Audios

sanflfootballmemories.com

Harry Hewitt early first nations football player in SANFL

Australasian June 1891

A WONDERFUL “ABO.” - Sport (Adelaide, SA : 1911 - 1948) - 13 Aug 1926

One of the finest all round athletes a quarter of a century or more ago was a full-blooded aboriginal who rejoiced in the name of ...

trove.nla.gov.au

AN ABORIGINAL TRAGEDY. - MURDER OF HARRY HEWITT. MILANG. January 24. - Observer (Adelaide, SA : 1905 - 1931) - 2 Feb 1907

A tragedy happened at Milang late last night or early this morning among the blacks camped sear the town, and, as a resulte Harry Hewitt, an aborigine, well ...

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THE INQUEST. - A DRUNKEN SQUABBLE. Milang, January 24. - Chronicle (Adelaide, SA : 1895 - 1954) - 2 Feb 1907

An inquest was opened this afternoon on the body of Harry Hewitt, before Mr. D. H. Griffin (the corner) and a jury, Mr. A. Pavy being the foreman. Sub-Inspector ...

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1922 grand final Fitzroy v Collingwood

This being the game mentioned in the last episode of Jack Irish
Fitzroy kicked 6 goals in third quarter

FOOTBALL. - THE GRAND FINAL. FITZROY BEAT COLLINGWOOD. A GREAT GAME. - The Australasian (Melbourne, Vic. : 1864 - 1946) - 21 Oct 1922

For the reason, apparently, that Fitzroy were not taken too seriously by the general public in the second semi-final and final matches, there was a tense atmosphere all ...

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Ahh Le Freake Freake out!
“The sensation of the match came early in the third quarter, after the teams
had rested for more than half an hour. Fitzroy kicked a goal within five seconds, had
three goals in about six minutes and seemed to be fairly streaming away with the match.

It was a wonderful burst of success, and it won the match. From the bounce of
the ball Gale passed it to Freake, who sent it spinning through for fourth goal and
a point ahead. After a short struggle Donellan passed the ball up to the forward
lines. Here Freake again marked, and with an exactly similar kick got fifth goal.

Fitzroy had taken complete command of the game. Next Fergie drove it up to Parratt
who made a very nice shot, but got a point only. They were threatening again, when
a mark by Brown kept them off for an instant. Then McCracken hit the ball from the
crush straight to Fergie, who snapped their sixth goal. Considering how evenly the
sides had battled to that point it was an amazing outbust”
- The Argus 16.10



" They began with a goal to Freake five seconds from the start of the second half
Freake quickly got another and Fergie added the third after six minutes of play
Collingwood fought back well but scoring was even for the rest of the match
and the Maroons eventually proved victorious by thirteen points
Collingwood however threw the game away in the last term kicking two goals
seven some of the misses being easy shots "
- G Atkinson Complete book of AFL Finals 1996 five mile press

 

[killer]

Brunswick Street 1938
This must be the Britannia bell










Marcus Whelan

 

[Connor7395]

When Monica and Margaret got engaged, they hung up the footy boots. But the legacy of their team lives on

When Werribee took to the field against the Metropolitan Sewerage Farm in 1950, a huge crowd gathered to see something few Victorians had seen before — two women's Aussie Rules teams squaring off against each other.

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between the posts 1924

TOO MUCH PUDDING - Football Team's Novel Protest - The Herald (Melbourne, Vic. : 1861 - 1954) - 2 Sep 1924

BALLARAT, Tuesday. -- Mr A. A, O'Den, secretary of the Ballarat Football League, has received a protest from the Ararat Club in connection ...

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Northern Territory Times April 1897
the laws of the "Australian' game arrive in Darwin
...20 years later organized football follows
not much happened between

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"The other boundary consists
of a solid wall of rock, about six feet up
which is a small and narrow path
which leads to two tin sheds for the
spectators' use."

Sound dramatic. Does this place still exist?

Amusing Football at Gaffney's Creek - Sporting Globe (Melbourne, Vic. : 1922 - 1954) - 29 Jun 1932

Perhaps the smallest, yet the most interesting football competition in Victoria is that played between three teams. — Jamieson, Gaffney's Creek ...

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Found some pictures of the old Gaffney Creek ground.

It is indeed pear-shaped and crammed in between the former hotel and the creek.

 

[megadeth86]

Ever see a guy named Lyndsey McGuiness play for West Perth?
interested in your thoughts

I was only 8 or 10 years old when he played but I remember him as a wiry, skinny, very tough halfback flanker. He was relatively tall for that position, fast and agile and had a great mark on him.

Other WAFL fans can probably add more opinions.

 

[killer]

Happy Lockdown

Bunch of articles about old timers

Brisbane Tele March 1941

Tom Hand



Jack Joyce

Sportsmen We Have Met - “Jack” Joyce, Father of Collingwood Flayer Whom a Duke Congratulated - Sporting Globe (Melbourne, Vic. : 1922 - 1954) - 23 Aug 1922

Headers all! Meet Mr “Jack” Joyce. You will be glad to know him. He is the sort of man who radiates ...

trove.nla.gov.au

Adelaide Advertiser 1941
"Once kicked a goal to win the premiership for his team"
When was this?









There's a couple of interesting articles on this Sporting Globe page

Sporting Globe (Melbourne, Vic. : 1922 - 1954) - 15 Jun 1935 - p7

AS JACK ROHAN Sees it.; The Greatest Game Ever Played.; Jack Elder Names.; How Champions Of Past And Present Compare.; Some Live Ideas for Training Umpires.; What do you know?.; Pearce As Wrestler.; That Championship Match.;

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Story of the 1979 East Fremantle song

EAST FREMANTLE TEAM SONG – Dave Warner

davewarner.com.au

 

[killer]

A lost Football meeting place: The Junction Hotel
Walls full of photos of sporting icons
A flag would be raised on the roof when St Kilda won
Vic Cumberland lodged there...

MAINTENANCE CASE. - PROMINENT ST. KILDA FOOTBALLER CONCERNED. - The Prahran Telegraph (Vic. : 1889 - 1930) - 6 Aug 1904

At the Prahran Police Court on Thursday, Ada Leeton, of Latrobe-street, Windsor, proceeded against Vivian Cumberland, formerly ...

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Demolished with the destruction of the High street in the 70's

Photo from Lost Melbourne book

ABC Hidden Treasures 03/07/21
WAFL stuff, mostly waffle

Why the world of WAFL is one of WA hidden treasures - ABC listen

Listen to find out once and for all which WAFL ground offers the best hotdogs and burgers on this week's Hidden Treasures.

www.abc.net.au

Lindsay Gaze
Argus 20 June 56


Peter Bennett St Kilda 1950s

OLYMPIC SCRAPBOOK Two—way champion - The Argus (Melbourne, Vic. : 1848 - 1957) - 18 Aug 1956

A CHAMPION St. Kilda footballer who rejected a trip to the Olympic Games is now one of Australia's greatest water polo players and certain to captain our Olympic polo team. He is 29-year-old Peter Bennett, ...

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Sporting Globe 1935
Dookie McKenzie Essendon 1900's

“Dookie” McKenzie’s Memoirs - Sporting Globe (Melbourne, Vic. : 1922 - 1954) - 7 Sep 1935

“DOOKIE” McKENZIE, former Essendon, Melbourne and Brunswick footballer, has been prevailed upon to discuss the best footballers of all time—a select coterie to which he himself belongs. He tells of the champions he ...

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[killer]

State football league apologises over 'offensive' song at Indigenous Round game

The Indigenous Round in South Australia's elite local football competition has been marred by the inclusion of the 1961 song My Boomerang Won't Come Back on the list of match-day music.

www.abc.net.au

 

[Connor7395]

COUNTRY MATCHES. - The Argus (Melbourne, Vic. : 1848 - 1957) - 24 Jun 1909

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Stewarton had 35 scoring shots and lost to a team who kicked only six goals.

 

[killer]

I can't find this "Owed to Collingwood" verse anywhere on Trove newspapers
If you've got a copy in your attic please post it

J.O Smith who wrote it was chairman of Paterson's Furnisher's in the '30s

Argus 28 August 1926







1908 Carnival

LET'S LOOK AT FOOTBALL with HUGH BUGGY 1908—Birth of carnival football - The Argus (Melbourne, Vic. : 1848 - 1957) - 17 Jun 1952

OUR Australian game may be said to have reached its maturity both in technique and prestige by 1908, when the first Australasian Football Jubilee Carnival was staged in Melbourne. ...

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The Merc at the carnival 1908



New Zealand Merc 15 Aug 1908

NEW ZEALANDERS. - THEIR WAR CRY - The Herald (Melbourne, Vic. : 1861 - 1954) - 15 Aug 1908

The New Zealanders were tho first of the visiting teams to arrive. They reached Melbourne, and were welcomed last Saturday, as already reported in ...

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Queensland! Merc 19 Aug 1908

THE BATTLE SONGS. - The Mercury (Hobart, Tas. : 1860 - 1954) - 19 Aug 1908

The New Zealanders have brought with them a battle song, but the defiant war cry of the Queenslanders will take a bit of beating. The old "Wollongabba" ...

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Various " All Black" inspired war-crys

2 Aug 1911 Argus



Canberra Times Aug 1938

 

[Supermercado]

I can't find this "Owed to Collingwood" verse anywhere on Trove newspapers
If you've got a copy in your attic please post it

Careful, it's strong stuff....

"Owed" To Collingwood by J.O Smith

They're sanguine - very,
That the flag of this year's fight
Will float o'er the banks of Merri,
Crossed with bars of black and white.
We have got a strong impression
That the boys in red and blue
Have learnt a useful lesson
And they've learnt it most from you.
There's a little score to settle
That has long been overdue;
You have got us on our mettle,
And we'll square accounts with you.

 

[killer]

Easi one ..Who's number 7? (without looking it up)

 

[killer]

Diversity

July 1982


Adelaide News 10 October 1949

Vale Ray Jewell -WRFL Life Member - Western Region Football League - GameDay

Vale Ray Jewell -WRFL Life Member - Western Region Football League - GameDay, fixtures, results, ladders, statistics, news and events for the Western Region Football League, on GameDay, the Home of Grassroots Sport

websites.sportstg.com

 

[killer]

The unofficial history of Whitten Oval

Named after club great Ted Whitten in 1995, Western Oval has been the home of the Footscray Football Club since the late 1800s. Drive listeners recall the peanut man, the Hyde Street Band and all that mud.

www.abc.net.au

Eliminating the weak

THOSE WEAK CLUBS! - Should They Be Eliminated? - New Call and Bailey's Weekly (Perth, WA : 1934 - 1940) - 3 Oct 1934

One surveys with mixed feelings the list of clubs which now have packed away their football gear until the season 1935 calls ...

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SPORTSMAN CONTINUED - FOOTBALL | REORGANISING THE LEAGUE - The Australasian (Melbourne, Vic. : 1864 - 1946) - 23 Mar 1935

At the last meeting of the Victorian Football League Mr. J. Meere, a North Melbourne delegate, accused other members of working together to oust North ...

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[killer]

Moneyball was the book that changed the AFL, but no term is more misunderstood

Moneyball was the book that changed the way coaches and recruiters think about sport, but it remains one of the most misused and little-understood concepts in the AFL world.

www.abc.net.au

 

[Connor7395]

The Sandridge footy club played a senior team for two seasons in the Footscray District league between 1991 and 1992. By their second year, the club was already in debt and the league wanted $3000 dollars payed to them by the middle of June.

The club were running out of options as payment was due soon, so two days before the deadline, they tried raising funds through illegal gambling at a hotel in Port Melbourne. Instead of raising the money, they raised suspicion and the cops nabbed a hundred of them.

The Age from Melbourne, Victoria, Australia

Get this The Age page for free from Monday, June 22, 1992 1S -TH3 AM MONDAY 22 JUNE 1992 4 Picture: ANDREW DE LA RUC Petrol tipped Police unions work out thei.... Edition of The Age

www.newspapers.com

Needless to say, the club didn't raise the money and ended up disappearing by the end of the year.

 

[the croucher]

Wonder how many were aware of the "magazines and newsletters" section on Trove.

Came across this 1940 article about Marcus Whelan getting ready for a new season in the famous illustrated magazine "Pix":

Vol. 5 No. 13 (30 March 1940)

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[Supermercado]

Wonder how many were aware of the "magazines and newsletters" section on Trove.

Came across this 1940 article about Marcus Whelan getting ready for a new season in the famous illustrated magazine "Pix":

Vol. 5 No. 13 (30 March 1940)

nla.gov.au

Good stuff, have been going through Trove newspapers for years and had no idea about this.

 

[killer]

Footy cards speculators crash the pack, leaving kids empty handed

Like a Dusty Martin "don't argue", cashed-up buyers are brushing aside kids' hopes of collecting sets, raiding shops for everything they can find to sell in online video presentations.

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7 October '47 Footscray were on an end of season trip to the Grand final in Adelaide

An apology to all those Irvines in the phone book - The Canberra Times (ACT : 1926 - 1995) - 5 Jun 1994

OKAY, so it's winter, and getting out of bed on a chill morning isn't anyone's idea of fun, nor is the idea of wet feet and mud trampled ...

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[Connor7395]

No doubt you've heard about the infamous fake match between Geelong and St. Kilda's reserves sides back in 1945. However, recent research suggests that the match did in fact happen. Whether or not it did, what we do know is that an actual fake match got caught 36 years later.

It's early August of 1981 on a crappy day in Adelaide. It'd been raining heavily for most of the week and God had dumped another load on top of St. Ignatius College in Adelaide's east. The home side, Old Ignatians C, get to the ground and wait, but by the time the game is due to start, only twelve players from the Scotch OC C side have turned up and a forfeit win for the Ignatians looks all but certain.

Well, it's the eighth division of the South Australian Amateur Football League. Every side in it, apart from the newly-formed and unbeaten Croydon, is merely a secondary side to their higher-up senior squads. Old Scotch's senior team is mid-table in A1, while Old Ignatians are tearing it up at the top of the A4 table. It's not like many people are going to turn up to watch the leftovers battle it out on a cold, wet afternoon. Scotch OC C would have to forfeit, pay a fine to the league, and move on.

Or they could just not pay.

With full cooperation from both coaches, the umpires, and (I suspect a few dozen) people in attendance, the group decides that their money is better off spent at the nearby hotel where they can spend the afternoon warm, dry, and drinking beers. Then, they fixed a fake score: Old Ignatians won, kicking 18.17.125 to Scotch OC C's dismal 10.7.67, a result that would give the Ignatians the same percentage boost as a forfeit. Fake teamsheets, fake goalscorers, and fake umpire's votes were all filled in. The Old Ignatians phoned the score over to the Sunday Mail, and the umpire sent off his handiwork to the SAAFL. And that was that. No harm, no foul.

For two weeks, the league bought it. And then somebody pulled some threads and the whole thing fell apart.

Needless to say, the league was pretty pissed. As soon as the truth was uncovered, both club's captain-coaches were suspended until July 1982. The league then fined both clubs $50 and stripped them of their records up until the day of the non-game. Scotch OC C lost all their remaining three games, while Old Ignatians C managed an even one win, one draw (with Brighton High OS C) and one loss. The umpire was ordered to show up at the tribunal, but ended up doing a runner. With no chance of staying up, both clubs dropped down a division. They would meet two years later in the A9 Grand Final of 1983, which Scotch OC C won 18.8.116 to 14.6.90.

On a side note, Croydon went on a 35 game winning streak, but after losing their first ever game in A7 late in 1982, the club must've done something bad, because the league suspended them and they never came back.

THE PHANTOM MATCH | Old Ignatians FC

www.oifc.com.au

 

[GreyCrow]

1. Old Iggies oval would be a foot deep in water in the forward 50 arc at one end - and that was with a light sprinkle so I can see why if it bucketed down

2. Croydon must have merged with West Croydon because 1983 saw a West Croydon win the Div 7 flag

Div 8
1975 MITCHAM FC
1976 HENLEY HIGH OLD SCHOLARS FC
1977 KILBURN FC
1978 ADELAIDE UNIVERSITY FC
1979 HENLEY DISTRICT & OLD SCHOLARS FC
1980 ADELAIDE UNIVERSITY FC
1981 CROYDON FC

Div 7
1979 ST.MICHAEL'S OLD SCHOLARS & HINDMARSH/WEST LAKES FC
1980 BROADVIEW FC
1981 EDWARDSTOWN BAPTIST FC
1982 ST.MICHAEL'S OLD SCHOLARS & HINDMARSH/WEST LAKES FC
1983 WEST CROYDON FC
1984 NATIONAL BANK FC
1983 WEST CROYDON FC

 

[Connor7395]

2. Croydon must have merged with West Croydon because 1983 saw a West Croydon win the Div 7 flag

I've found nothing on the fate of Croydon following their one and only loss. Perhaps someone can bring up an old copy of the Sunday Mail.

 

[killer]

2021 Bill Dempsey book

West Perth football legend Bill Dempsey on finding his way from Birdum to stardom

Bill Dempsey is an icon of Australian Rules. But his incredible talent for the game is not the most interesting thing about him. He's documented his remarkable life in a new biography.

www.abc.net.au

West Aussie Greats | Bill Dempsey 'The Boy from Birdum' - 6PR

The incredible life of football legend Bill Dempsey has been revealed in his new book The Boy from Birdum. The memoir follows his life from a young age as a member of the stolen generation to his time as a premiership football player. Speaking with 6PR’s Gareth Parker on West Aussie Greats...

www.6pr.com.au

 

[the croucher]

Here is another article found via the Trove "magazine" section. "RULES 5-YEAR CHALLENGE TO RIVAL FOOTBALL CODES"
was published in the ABC Weekly issue of 27 August 1949 on page 29:

Vol. 11 No. 35 (27 August 1949)

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