Each day examples of sports news from exactly 100 years ago will be reproduced in blog posts below. Most of the posts will mostly relate to soccer (or British Association football as it was sometimes know in the pre-war period) but other sports will get a look in, especially during the Australian summer.

The material will be extracted from the National Library of Australia's digital archive and other sources.

Wednesday 18 April 2012

18 April 1912, Townsville Daily Bulletin

FOOTBALL

At a meeting held at the Y.M.C.A rooms on Wednesday night, Mr J. W. Fielding presiding, it was decided to form a British Association Club to be called the St. John's A.F.C. Bishop Frodsham was appointed president; vice-presidents, Ven. Archdeacon Williams, Messrs G. Murray, A. Austin, G. Gordon and Rev. Bissett-Carrle; secretary and treasurer, Mr J. W. Fielding; captain, Mr J. Hallett; vice-captain, Mr S. South; delegates to the Association, Messrs A. Grantham and F. Cooper. Five members were selected for the selection committee.
Eventually eight clubs fielded teams in the Townsville competition during this season, a remarkable number. At this time it was argued that Rugby in the town was managing to alienate many through its exclusiveness.
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