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 23 July 2012

23 July 1912, Queanbeyan Age

Many of the spectators in Saturday's Soccer football match were a little nonplussed regarding the manoeuvres of the players. They could not understand butting the ball with the head or the goalkeeper giving it an upper-cut with his closed fist. There is no doubt about it being a scientific game, but writer, like the canny Scot, " has his doots" about the game catching on locally. The public like to see the good old Rugby game with the passing rushes, runs and tackles.

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