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.
9 May 1912, Sydney Morning Herald
An advertisement for this week's Sydney Mail which includes the following feature (must track down).
IN THE WORLD OF SPORT.-An article (with portraits of prominent players) on the pronpects of Association Football, or "Soccer." "The prospects of increased support for the dribbling game," says the writer, "were never brighter." Saturday's football matches are brightly described.
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