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.
5 July 1912, launceston Examiner
BRITISH ASSOCIATION.
The Northern Soccer
Association will inaugurate a
two-round league competition to-morrow,
at the Cypress-street ground. There
are three teams engaged - Launceston
United, Tamar, and Elphin: - and as the
old players have been evenly
distributed close and keenly contested games are expected. The elevens to take the field to-morrow are Elphin and Launceston United, and they will draw their teams from the following: Elphin - Davis, Ziebele, Armytage, F. Powell, Tisshaw, G. Harris, Crawford, Thomlinson, Green, Trinder, Hargraves, Layh,R. M'Clymont. United - Coombes, Campbell, Roberts, Beards, A. Harris, G. Powell, Rigby, Fuller, Clarke, M'Clymont, Harrison, Madden, Newton. Play will start at 2.45 p.m.
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