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.
6 July 1912, Cairns Post
FOOTBALL
CAIRNS BRITISH FOOTBALL ASSOCIATION.
A meeting of players and enthusiasts of the above association was held at the Newmarket Hotel on Wednesday evening. Mr. G. Williams presiding in the chair (writes a correspondent). It was decided to try and run three teams this season, viz. Railway Rovers, Rangers, and Sawmills, and by the enthusiasm shown at the meeting there should be a great revival of the "Soccer" game in Cairns. The secretary was instructed to try and make arrangements with the Townsville Union for a team to visit Cairns during the coming carnival week. It was decided to open the season today with a representative Cairns team, and a team from the Wyreema to be played in Norman Park. A delegation was appointed to interview the Cairns Rugby Union to arrange for the use of the ground in Norman Park. A vote of thanks to the chair concluded a very successful meeting.
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