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

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Western Mail 28 July 1949

A WORLD REVIEW SPORTS DIARY - FOOTBALL Wanderers Team - Western Mail (Perth, WA : 1885 - 1954) - 28 Jul 1949

LETTERS we have received indicate that considerable interest has been taken in the information furnished by ...

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[killer]

How often have on field incidents got the stage of charges?

BRUTAL FOOTBALL. - CARLTON-UNIVERSITY EPISODE. SEQUEL TO THE MATCH. - Barrier Miner (Broken Hill, NSW : 1888 - 1954) - 25 May 1911

As reported in Monday's "Miner." Melbourne League football was again disgraced on Saturday by one of those incidents which degraded the game last ...

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ROUGH FOOTBALL. - UNIVERSITY PLAYER ASSAULTED.

A case which aroused considerable interest was heard by Mr. Dwyer, P.M., and Mr. Blashki, J.P., in the District Court yesterday. It was a complaint ...

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[rbartlett]

Alas I dont have a subscription to Code, but theres an article today behind paywall of recording footy on VHS back in the day

CODE Sports

CODE Sports

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[killer]

CODE Sports

CODE Sports

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VHS tapes

How can anything from the 80s be lost?
weren't they selling name a game tapes by then?

 

[Todman]

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Amazingly he was banned from the Amateurs because he was selected to play Sheffield Shield for the Victorian team in a match in Sydney. His crime was he accepted the payment of the train fare to Sydney by the VCA.

He was reinstated after WWII by the VAFA because he was a returned serviceman. He never played.

 

[killer]

Early Days of Junior Football in melbourne

Forty-one Years Old - Early Days of Junior Football - Sporting Globe (Melbourne, Vic. : 1922 - 1954) - 12 Jul 1924

When you read of the doings of such teams as Preston. Yarraville, South Melbourne and the 15 others that go to form the clubs in the ...

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Stimulants

OXYGEN FOR ATHLETES. - AN INTERESTING EXPERIMENT. NO APPRECIABLE RESULTS. - The Argus (Melbourne, Vic. : 1848 - 1957) - 20 Sep 1909

The Collingwood footballers were very keen to win their way into the final of the Victorian Football League, and the committee decided to spare no effort to enable their ...

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[Supermercado]

PNG players train with South Melbourne - 1973.

 

[killer]

ABC Radio Darwin interviewing a Timorise Aussie Rules Player in 2009

Timor tackles footy - AFL style

You don't expect to see kids on the streets of Dili playing kick to kick with an Aussie Rules football, but the sport is growing in popularity throughout the country.

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Ex st marys coach John taylor on ABC radio guest room in 2011

Guestroom with John 'KJ' Taylor

He was once called an outsider but before long this outsider turned into one of the Territory's sporting legends.

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[killer]

Country football crisis in Alice Springs

AFLNT, Alice Springs Town Council remain at loggerheads over community football competition

One month since the Alice Springs Town Council resolved to withdraw support for the upcoming Central Australian community football competition, there is no resolution in sight.

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19th Century Veteran

60 YEARS CONNECTED WITH FOOTBALL - Peter Burns Celebrates Diamond Jubilee - Record (Emerald Hill, Vic. : 1881 - 1954) - 9 May 1942

Now in his 77th year, Peter Burns, once champion foot-bailer of South Melbourne and Geelong, this week celebrated ...

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Amazing the amount of times 'Kicking with the tide" comes up on trove

 

[killer]

800 games

HANGING UP HIS BOOTS - The Canberra Times (ACT : 1926 - 1995) - 9 Aug 1980

MELBOURNE: A chapter in the football History of the tiny Mallee township of Walpeup in western Victoria is about to draw to a close. ...

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Frank Allan "Bowler of the Century"

SOME FOOTBALL ANECDOTES. - The Argus (Melbourne, Vic. : 1848 - 1957) - 8 May 1909

Now that the football season is again upon un, may [?], as an old (if not very prominent) player of the seventies, be allowed to venture upon a few reminiscences of the ...

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Barassi 1979

Apprenticeship pays off for Roach - Barassi - The Canberra Times (ACT : 1926 - 1995) - 18 May 1979

Longford forward Michael Roach has gone from boiled lollies to chocolate in only six matches. ...

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Victim of the Collingwood push
"The friend was grabbed his shoes were ripped off and he was hit on the head with them"

 

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Chequebooks, upsets and the Artful Dodger — inside the proud history of South Australian footy

From Barrie Robran to John Halbert, South Australia is a hotbed of footy talent that went largely unnoticed in the east. As the AFL heads to Adelaide for Gather Round, we look back at the best of the bunch.

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1986 Australia Day Game

 

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Boomerangs V Northcote 1948






Sydney team 1981

AUSTRALIAN FOOTBALL Clubs will decide on fate of Sydney VFL team - The Canberra Times (ACT : 1926 - 1995) - 18 Jun 1981

MELBOURNE: Melbourne football fans will be facing a new-look season in 1982 if the Victorian Football ...

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Wrong man 1924

Constable and Football - THE WRONG MAN SENT. - The Horsham Times (Vic. : 1882 - 1954) - 18 Apr 1924

Much confusion has been caused by the mistake of the Police Commissioner's office in the transfer twice of the wrong Constable Hall to Geelong. ...

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Television Threat 1953

 

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Wittenoom football comp


a blue team, and a white team, for obvious reasons

 

[killer]

COLEMAN DISQUALIFIED: WILL MISS ALL FINALS - Examiner (Launceston, Tas. : 1900 - 1954) - 5 Sep 1951

MELBOURNE. — John Coleman, champion Essendon full-forward, will not appear in the final series. Last night the Independent League Tribunal disqualified ...

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[killer]

sharp right to the kidneys





The difference in the copy between now and then is
then they'd call them Footballers,
and now they'd be Stars