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.

Thursday 19 April 2012

19 April 1912, The Register (Adelaide)

SHIPS' CREWS AT PLAY.

Teams representing the steamers Argyllshire and Aeneas engaged in a game of soccer at the Outer Harbour on Monday. The match aroused considerable interest, and a good contest was the outcome. The Aeneas representatives proved the better team, the scores having been: Aeneas, 7 goals, and Argyllshire, 3 goals.   
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