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.

Wednesday 27 June 2012

27 June 1912, Clarence and Richmond Examiner

Disgraceful scenes occurred during a football match on Saturday between Bathurst and Perthville. The referee had great difficulty in controlling the players, and one of the Perthville players was ordered off the field and the others left in a body. Fresh serious riots appeared imminent but for the arrival of the police. Several players sustained injuries, and the mob hooted the Bathurst players as they left.
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