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.
26 April 1912, Brisbane Courier
ASSOCIATION FOOTBALL CUP FINAL.
The
Association Football Cup final between West Bromwich and Barnsby was
replayed to-day, neither side having scored in the match on Saturday
last: Barnsby won by one goal to nil.
And
there was me thinking Barnsby had never won the FA Cup final! The
second item is kind of spooky given the assault at Gallipoli is exactly
two years away.
MINES IN THE DARDANELLES.
ATHENS, Wednesday.
There
are reported to be fifty-five floating mines in the Dardanelles, and
one has been found near Dedeagatch, a Turkish seaport on the Aegean Sea,
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