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.

Saturday 28 April 2012

28 April 1912, Sunday Times (Perth)

No soccer news today but a bit of a general anti-football rant.

It is very much up to local bio. showmen to send England strong protests against so many football and Lord Mayor pictures in the Pathe and other "Gazettes." About two-thirds of the English consignment of celluloid consists of mobs of brawny English degenerates booting about a bladder of wind, or glorified bumbles making well-fed speeches to starving villagers while they unveil a parish pump or a memorial to a dead dustman. The average Australian wants to see films of sensational happenings-or their aftermaths, wrecks, launchings of big ships, and items that bulk large in the cables. Muddied oafs and paunchy workhouse beadles are a waste of good celluloid and'a long-drawn weariness.
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