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.

Monday 21 May 2012

21 May 1912, Townsville Daily Bulletin

BRITISH ASSOCIATION FOOTBALL.


RAILWAYS V. Y.M.C.A. 


These two teams met last Saturday for the first time this season. From the sound of the whistle the Railways had their opponents working hard trying to keep them away from the goal, but the Railways were out to win and the ball was in the Y.M.C.A. territory nearly all through the game. When the half time whistle sounded the Railways had scored 5 goals to the Y.M.C.A. nil. and when play ceased the Railways had 8 goals, Y.M.C.A. nil. For the winners goals were scored by Ross (3), Foley, Finlayson, Robertson, and Taylor. The Railways showed much better play than on the previous Saturday, having improved considerably.

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