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.

Thursday 7 June 2012

7 June 1912, Adelaide Advertiser

FOOTBALL.

BRITISH ASSOCIATION.

To-morrow his Excellency the Governor will witness the British Association football match at the Jubilee Oval. As his Excellency has, no doubt, seen many football games of this kind, played by the crews of his Majesty's ship, it will not be new to him. The game will be played between the Tandanya and Adelaide teams, and should provide an interesting contest. Leaflets, containing the field positions, with a diagram of the ground and other particulars, will be distributed at the oval, so that the uninitiated may understand at a glance the various features of the game. Given a time day there should be a record attendance. Sturt II and South II. replayed their match on Monday, and the result was a fine win for the green and whites. Scores:-Sturt. 3 goals: South, 1 goal. Murphy, Heron, Cubitt, Reeves were the most conspicuous for Sturt. Dobson and the goalkeeper and full back did good work for the losers.
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