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 12 May 2012

12 May 1912, Sunday Times (Perth)

We read that in a Rugby football game played in Sydney, yesterday week two of the players had their legs broken, one sustained a fractured ankle and another concussion of the brain. And the police authorities in Sydney approve of this gentle pastime - and bar in-fighting and the kidney punch!
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