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Date of article
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Date of game
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Page
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Game
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Code (if indicated)
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Score
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Notes
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4 Aug 1877
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18
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New Town v High School
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1-0
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1 Sep 1877
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19
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New Town v High School
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0-10
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1 Sep 1877
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19
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Richmond v City
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0-0
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‘It is only fair to say that they [City]
were at a great disadvantage in having to make the great concession to their
opponents of not “running with the ball.”’
[Richmond
at this time play a non-running game.]
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8 Sep 1877
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18
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Junior High v Hutchins School
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17-0
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Played previous Wednesday. Supposed to be
U14 but HS had a number of over age players
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8 Sep 1877
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18
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City School v City Club juniors
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2-4
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Football seems to peter out in September
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11 May 1878
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18
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City FC scratch match
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Played at Sandy Bay. Several goals kicked.
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18 May 1878
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17
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City v City School
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Poor turnout
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1 June 1878
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18
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|
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Report on the death of an English
footballer in England.
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8 June 1878
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18
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City snr v City Jr
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5-1
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11 v 16
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15 Jun 1878
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18
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City v High School
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5-0
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First game of season
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15 Jun 1878
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18
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|
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Report on England v Scotland FA match –
notable because of the way the description of the game differs from the local
description.
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22 June 1878
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17
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City v Collegiate School
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7-1
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Supplemented by a long piece on football
controversy in Adelaide.
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29 June 1878
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19
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City v Richmond
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2-1
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‘The Richmond
team were evidently placed at a disadvantage by the novelty of the mark rule
of which they made acquaintance for the first time.’
[We can conclude from this
that Richmond
play a non-running, non-marking game at this time – or that their mark is
from another code]
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20 July
1878
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18
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Lawyers & Merchants v Civil Servants
& Bankers
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Refs to “little marking” and drop kicking.
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3-1
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Played at Mr Butler’s Ground.
Wales v Scotland FA
report supplements.
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20 July 1878
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18
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|
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Report on England v Scotland FA match
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27 July 1878
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18
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City School v New Town
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2-0
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27 July 1878
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18
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High school 3rd form v High
School 2nd form
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4-2
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12 v 25
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10 Aug 1878
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17
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City jr v Hutchins School
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Refs to “carrying”
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3-2
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On Butler’s ground
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17 Aug 1878
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17
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City v High School
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3-1
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“City v Richmond to be played this day.”
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24 Aug 1878
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17
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Richmond v City
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Playing the mark
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0-1
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By ‘Old Harrovian’. Announces games to
come:
City jr v Hutchins Aug 25
Fancy Costume match Sep 7
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31 Aug 1878
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18
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Hutchins v City jr
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2-0
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31 Aug 1878
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18
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Richmond Jr v Tea Tree
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7-0
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31 Aug 1878
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18
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Launceston v Horton College
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1-0
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Played in Ross: “The first football match
that has ever been played in the township.”
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7 Sep 1878
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18
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City jr v Hutchins School
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4-2
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14 Sep 1878
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17
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Civil Servants & Bankers v Lawyers
& Merchants
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2-0
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14 Sep 1878
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17
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Richmond v Oatlands
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0-1
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21 Sep 1878
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17
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New Town v City School
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2-0
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21 Sep 1878
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17
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Costume football match
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Mercury
28 April 1879
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2
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Soccer +
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City Club
“The
committee recommended the adoption of a fresh code of playing rules, as the
present code entirely prevented the club from meeting any foreign team,
recommending those of the English Football
Association, with the addition of the drop kick.
Captain
Boddam was appointed captain!!
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10 May 1879
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19
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|
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City Club receives a request from Hotham
to play in Tasmania.
“Such an attention . . . from Victoria will
demonstrate the necessity for the formation of an Association, uniformity of
rules . . .
The article suggests that rancour exits
between the Hobart
clubs formed.
The Cricketers’ Football Club at their May
5 meeting adopted the English Association Rules. The vote was 10-9! Boddam
and seconder preferred Rugby but realised
the rules were too ‘complex’. [suggesting their
motives are imperialist]. They were derisory in relation to Victorian
Rules.
New Town FC adopted VR with some
modifications [indeed!]
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17 May 1879
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18
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|
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Railway Club adopts VR – but confusions
reigns
Railway, City – VR
New Town – modified VR
Cricketers – EAR
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24 May 1879
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19
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New Town v High School
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1-1
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Opening game of season. Also – Mercury
Club emerges. Reference to “Locomotives” [ahh
Locomotiv Glenorchy – if only!]
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31 May 1879
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19
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New Town v Cricketers
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modified VR
spherical ball
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5-1
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“hybred character of the New Town game,
which while allowing handling the ball, prohibits it being carried so that a
player catching the ball, must stand positively to be knocked down by an
opponent charging him, for if he moves a yard to dodge him, a “free kick” is
the penalty”. The writer is scathing
about the rules which he sees as a mockery of the Victorian game.
City Club “maintain their in cognito” and
play a scratch match.
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31 May 1879
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19
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Hich School v Railway
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1-1
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7 June 1879
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19
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New Town v City
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Oval ball
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2-2
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Clashed on rules
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7 June 1879
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19
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City jr v City School
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3-0
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Railway scratch.
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14 June 1879
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19
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Railway v City
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1-0
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14 June 1879
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19
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Cricketers v New Town
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Soccer
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0-0
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“Morriss for the New Town causing special
amusement by playing the ball with his head.”
The writer complains of the ‘absurdity’ of
the keeper being allowed to throw the ball.
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21 June 1879
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19
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City v High School
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1-3
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21 June 1879
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New Town v Hutchins
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1-2
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8 v 9
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21 June 1879
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Mercury Juniors v Battery Point Public
School
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2-0
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21 June 1879
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19
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Oatlands v N Richmond
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CNA
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0-2
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21 June 1879
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19
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|
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Report on the first meeting of the
Association on June 12 – where VR are adopted with one or two exceptions –
one of which is a crossbar over which the ball must pass.
The writer argues that Tasmanian Rules has
emerged – a “hodge podge of the Rugby Union, English, and Victorian Rules”.
The executive decided after
the meeting to add the crossbar! Accusations of the committee being a “Star
Chamber”
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28 June 1879
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19
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Cricketers v Railway
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Cross bar uniform
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1-0
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28 June 1879
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City v New Town
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1-0
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28 June 1879
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Battery Point PS v Mercury Juniors
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2-1
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5 July 1879
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19
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New Town v Cricketers
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4-1
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Boddam scored for the cricketers.
Notice that Launceston will play Richmond
in mid July.
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12 July 1879
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19
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Railway v City
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1-2
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12 July 1879
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|
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Cricketers v Richmond
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0-0
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12 July 1879
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Longford v Launceston
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1-4
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19 July 1879
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19
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City v Cricketers
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0-1
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Unclear whether the ball is a “sphere” or
an “oval”
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19 July 1879
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Railway v New Town
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1-1
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19 July 1879
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Richmond v Launceston
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1-0
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26 July 1879
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18
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Cricketers v Railway
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1-2
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|
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26 July 1879
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|
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New Town v City
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1-1
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New Town may have won. The report is
contradictory.
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2 Aug 1879
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19
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Yachy Club v Rowing Club
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“new rules”
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0-1
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2 Aug 1879
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City jr v Railway jr
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3-0
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2 Aug 1879
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New Town jr v Hutchins School
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1-2
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9 Aug 1879
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18
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Hutchins School v High School
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12-0
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9 Aug 1879
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City jr v City School
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0-0
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9 Aug 1879
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Oatlands v City
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1-2
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16 Aug 1879
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18
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Richmond v City
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1-2
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16 Aug 1879
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Railway v High School
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2-1
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16 Aug 1879
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Mercury jr v Battery Point
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2-2
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23 Aug 1879
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18
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Railway v Launceston
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0-0
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23 Aug 1879
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High School v City
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0-2
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23 Aug 1879
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Hutchins School v City jr
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3-0
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23 Aug 1879
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|
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Mercury v Trinity Scholars
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2-1
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30 Aug 1879
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19
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Cricketers v Railway
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5-1
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Notice of
New Norfolk
v Railway Aug 30
Hutchins v Ross (????) Sep 6
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30 Aug 1879
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New Town v City
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2-2
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30 Aug 1879
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Mercury jr v Tribune jr
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2-0
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6 Sep 1879
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17
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New Norfolk
v Railway
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0-10
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13 Sep 1879
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19
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New Town v Railway
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4-0
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13 Sep 1879
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City v Oatland
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1-0
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13 Sep 1879
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Horton v Hutchins
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2-2
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Played in Ross
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20 Sep 1879
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19
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Launceston v Cricketers 13th
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0-2
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Notice of end-of-season game, Tasmanians v
All-Comers on 27th.
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20 Sep 1879
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|
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Launceston v Richmond 12th
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0-2
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27 Sep 1879
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19
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High School v City
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1-0
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27 Sep 1879
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Horton v Ross School
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14-0
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4 Oct 1879
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19
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Tasmanians v All-Comers
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3-0
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4000 present at Battery Ground. Tas won.
Notice of a game, Longford v All-Comers.
[note to self that entire report is worth
copying – can’t quite remember why – perhaps that it summarised the year and
layed out plans for the future]
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11 Oct 1879
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20
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Railway v All comers
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|
4-1
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|
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Mercury, 29 September 1879
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3
|
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[This is noted as a summary
to the three years previous]
Mr. GIBLIN proposed the toast of the
evening, "Success to the Tasmanian Football Association."
(Loud and prolonged cheers.) There was not the
least doubt that the game of football had taken such
a hold of the young men of Hobart Town that season
such as none of them could remember before. (Hear, hear.) It was a grand
winter game. Many of them loved
cricket with an intense love, but in
our climate cricket could not be played all the year round, and there was no
game to be compared to the manly old English game of football. (Cheers.)
[I’m
struck that even after all the shenanigans that they see themselves as
playing an English game.]
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May 15 1880
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19
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Railway v High School
|
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1-6
|
|
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May 22 1880
|
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19
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Cricketers v City
|
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1-0
|
Cricketers captained by George Bailey!!
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May 22 1880
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19
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New Norfolk v Railway
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0-1
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