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 26 April 2012

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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