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.

Tuesday 31 July 2012

31 July 1912, The Brisbane Courier


COUNTRY MATCHES

TOOGOOLAWAH, July 30  

To raise funds towards the erection of a public shower bath on the recreation grounds in connection with the bore, a fancy dress football   match took place on Saturdav afternoon, about £4/4/ being realised . A  "soccer" match between the Metropolitans from Esk and a team from the local Good Templars' Lodge took place prior to the fancy dress match and resulted in a win for Esk by one goal to nil. Fearron scored from a penaltv kick. Rev L. J Hobbs gave satisfaction as referee.
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