The Gisborne Football Club organised a ball, which was held in the local Community Chambers on 26th May 1937. Judging from the number of people in the hall, the event was well attended.Functions like balls organised by local groups such as sporting clubs have been popular and well attended by the people living in country towns across the country.A non-digital sepia photograph in post card format of a group of people in a large hall, posing for a photograph in front of a stage. Streamers are decorating the venue with gumtree branches on either side of the stage.A Memento of the Footballers' Ball inborn 26. 5. 37gisborne football club, football, gisborne, sporting clubs, balls, social gatherings

Postcard sized black and white group photograph of people in ball dress.Written at bottom of photo: "A Memento of the Footballers Ball, Springhurst | 24/8/37"footballers ball, balls, dances, springhurst

Emerald Football Club in actionB/W photograph of five footballers around a ball in flight, possibly just after a ruck, as one has upraised fist. He is being high-tackled from behind. Two others, on left, in readiness to catch the ball. Another standing back, in foreground, watching. Several other footballers in the distant background.Rear (handwritten): Emerald Football Club Darien(?) Lunt going for the ball Mul Moss (back right) No 11 Anthony Clark " 14 Danny Thomasemerald football club

Ticket to St Kilda Football Club ball at St Kilda Town Hall on 27 July 1953.White card (discoloured with age) printed in red and blackStamped on the back: No. 2st kilda football club

Black and white photograph of Tambo Shire Councellors Charlie Hooper and Jack Palmer who co-compared the Football Club Ball held at the Mechanics Hall Lakes Entrance Victoriafootball, clubs, events, balls

During the era of the Victorian Football League (VFL) the home team wore white shorts, and the away team wore black shorts. The team in the white shorts are probably South Melbourne Football Club, and the team in the black shorts are probably Melbourne Football Club. Six Australian Rules (formerly Victorian Football League) footballers ruck the ball towards their team members. australian rules football, football, victorian football league, vfl, afl

Colour Photograph 4 Four Footballers contesting the Ball. 3 In Blue Jumpers 1 in red jumper

Identified figure in the photograph, also the location of the match and the teams competing.B/W photograph of three footballers contesting the ball in the centre of the oval. Other footballers visible in near background. Goal posts and cars parked around oval edge in the background.Rear (handwritten): Emerald Football Club Mul Moss in centre at Avonsleigh Oval Emerald v Yarra Glenemerald football club, avonsleigh oval, yarra glen football club, mul moss

Debutants trained by Maris BarlingBlack and white photograph of debutants at Football Club debutants Ball named are Wendy Allen McKean and Miss Northrope flower girls Christine Lamand and Margaret Zagami Lakes Entrance Victoriafundraising, balls, football club

Emerald Football Club won the Premiership in 1983 against Powelltown.The photograph records a significant even in the history of the Emerald Football Club.B/W photograph of several footballers grappling for the ball, near the oval boundary. A dozen or so spectator clearly visible in the background.Rear (handwritten): "1983" (top right corner) "Peter Rush - No. 18 front left" "Emerald Football Club playing Powelltown" "Grand Final - Emerald won"emerald football club, powelltown football club

Typed on back of photograph, "Ringwood Football Club Ball. Sylvia Hussey (nee Walden) and her father-in-law, William Hussey are seated on the right hand end of the front row." Written on front of photo: "R.F.C. Ball Sep 1921"

Known as Tennyson Cup. Presented to Port Fairy Rovers Football Team 1898 Port Fairy Football Club. Ornate silver Cup with embossed stand. Replica of a british style footballer with a round ball decorating lid. Domed glass case, black wooden baselocal history, trophy - sports, tennyson’s cup, patrick tennyson, mrs byron

Black and white photograph of Rose Marion Doyle later Hancock dressed as a gypsy or gaucho at Football Club fancy dress Ball, Lakes Entrance Victoriagenealogy

This paper records local, national and International news with events such as elections news, sports news, and 807 entries for the Warrnambool May Races.Other local articles relate to curriculum at Warrnambool High School,Port Fairy Sea Scouts as well as football results for many local teams of all levels. There are also photographs of Junior tennis A grade champions. Likewise there are many advertisements for local businesses such as Swintons Rock A bye Cradle shop and Stephens Stores. The film The graduate was playing at the Capitol Theatre and still drawing large crowds The Warrnambool Standard was established in 1872 and had remained locally owned until taken over by the Melbourne Age in 1980. Both were subsequently taken over by Fairfax media in 1983As the only daily local newspaper in the Western District,The Warrnambool Standard contains much that is of interest socially and historically. Black text with photograph of young boy on horseback ,jumping fence. back page has articles about sport with photograph of three footballers contesting for the ball. 12 PagesThe Warrnambool Standard Monday April 21 1969.warrnambool, warrnambool standard, standard 1969,

Black and white photograph (2 copies)Written on front of photograph: "A memento of the East Ringwood Football Club's Annual Ball. 5.10.36." Image 'O'0010b has partial list of names against outline sketch of photograph.

AWA Broadcasting station 3BO Bendigo Perpetual Trophy for Football, final winner Golden Square School 1974. Wooden base with silver engraved cartouche, topped with a bronze figure of footballer kicking a ball, between two square silver plated columns and top etched with winners ranging from 1962 to 1974, bronze wreath finial on top.bendigo, education, golden square school

BHS CollectionBendigo Advertiser ''The way we were'' from 2003. a night of memories: Marong football club debutante ball held in the old Marong Shire Hall in 1948. Back row: N. Donaldson, G. Baker, D. Donaldson, V. Winzar, E. Andrews, M. Winzar, D. Steele and V. Gooch. Front row: M. Knapping, N. Andrews, Mrs. Doyle, J. Goulden and L. Browell. The clip is in a folder.newspaper, bendigo advertiser, the way we were

When Ballarat Junior Technical School building was opened in 1921, there was little cleared space for the students to use for sporting activities. The area known as Battery Paddock was used for dodge-ball and football. Gradually the slope area was cleared and planted. In November 1922 a tennis court was opened in the Battery Paddock. It was designed and built by two former students of the Ballarat School of Mines. The old Mount Doran school house was moved to the area as a students' common room. A new tennis court was built in the same vicinity in 1934. This area was on the corner of Grant and Albert Streets. Area is where the Corbould Building and the Automotive Skills Centre of School of Mines Ballarat Grant Street Campus now stand. Black and white photograph of the tennis court built in 1934 at Ballarat Junior Technical School. Gaol wall to the left and the old Mount Doran school house that was moved to the school grounds in 1922 and used as a Students' common room. Four students playing tennis with others watching.Stamp on back indicating photographer - "Richards & Co - Ballarat"ballarat junior technical school, student, 1921, battery paddock, ballarat school of mines, ballarat school of mines tennis court, mount doran, students' common room, 1934, grant street, albert street, corbould building, automotive skills centre, student activities

This file contains various items pertaining to the club (or clubs) including group photographs of the teams - members' names when known are given on the verso: 1/Black and white group photo for 1924 to 1925 (Caulfield Football Club - Caulfield Imperials playing at East Caulfield Reserve) 2/Sepia group photo for 1926 (Caulfield Football Team playing at East Caulfield Reserve) 3/Black and white group for 1934 (Caulfield Junior Football Club) 4/Black and white group photo for 1939 (Caulfield Football Club) respectively. 5/Caulfield Football Club member’s ticket from 1948 and lists under 18 and seniors fixtures for that year. 6/Caulfield City Football Club's annual report from 1949 and lists inter alia, committee members, donors, and trophy winners. 7/A ticket for theCaulfield Football Club's Presentation Ball on 22/09/1952. Lord Mayor is handwritten on the verso. 8/Twenty press cuttings ranging in dates from 2010 to 2013. 9/Photocopy of an obituary in THE AGE dated 31/01/2007, for Harry Ernest Melbourne, originator of Freddo Frog, who was a devoted supporter of Caulfield Football Club and Caulfield South Cricket Club.caulfield imperials, melbourne harry earnest, rowney j., bricker r. e., perkins d., le guier c., phillips w., dewick a. d., nutt f., caulfield bears, freddo frog, phillips f. g., munro j., baillie c., simmonds h., swinden h., phillips t., bricker d. c., caulfield football club, hatherall j., chenoweth m., thompson a., fox v. e., powell d., wright j., collis v., hitches h., australian rules football, sporting clubs, caulfield junior football club, munro avenue, carnegie, koornang park, east caulfield reserve

Bendigo Teacher's College, along with the Ballarat Teacher's College were the first non-metropolitan teacher colleges. The Bendigo College was established in 1926 and operated out of the Long Gully Primary School. During the depression, from 1930 to 1945 the college closed because of the economic climate. The college reopened in 1945 in temporary accommodation adjacent to the Camp Hill Primary School. In 1959 the college moved into purpose built premises in Osbourne St., Flora Hill where it remained until closing in 1973.An Exercise Book. The front cover has red print on white cardboard - THE SHELL EXERCISE BOOK NAME GRADE SCHOOL SUBJECT 64 PAGES MAPPING An image of a shell with printing around it - SHELL. DISTINCTIVE. STATIONARY. Handwritten with blue ink - Dorothy Comer Teachers College 1958-1959. On the rear cover in red print are Arithmetical Tables and a Multiplication Table. The pages contain numerous newspaper cuttings, event programs and other memorabilia relating to Bendigo Teachers College 1858-1989 including letter informing of a studentship in the course for the Trained Teacher's Certificate from the Education Department Melbourne; a newspaper cutting with a photograph of three women watching play at Ewing Park before the start of their own Basket Ball game College players Faye Crump, Fairlie Birkinshaw, and Enid Brown; a program for a Tri- Sports meeting between Bendigo, Ballarat and Geelong Teachers Colleges held at Rosalind Park Bendigo 1958 events included Debating, Tennis, Men's Basketball, Softball, Men's Volleyball, Women's Volley Ball Football, Hockey Women's Basketball (Netball), Badminton, Table Tennis; several copies of EMBERS the College newspaperbendigo teachers college, dorothy comer, faye crump, farlie birkinshaw, enid brown, tri sports, embers

Contents: 1. Diamond Valley Football League Grand Final Souvenir Record; 20 Sep 1969 (colour photocopy) 2. Panther Yearbook 2000 3. Panther Yearbook 2001 4. Panther Yearbook 2003 5. Program: Eltham Football Club Third Annual Ball - 1968; Eltham Football Club “The Panthers” 6. Program: Eltham Football Club Third Annual Ball - 1969; Eltham Football Club “The Panthers” 7. Flyer: Match Of The Year, Eltham, Coach – Hugh Mitchell Ex Essendon versus Diamond Creek, Coach – Keith Burns Ex. Collingwood, Saturday, 19th July, 1969, Central Park Eltham 8. Eltham Football Club Letterhead Stationery (two copies), circa 1970 9. News clippings (1930s) • Football; Diamond Valley Association; Advertiser, Friday, September 9, 1932 10. News clippings (1980s) • Hats off to a veteran; Diamond Valley News, Tuesday, August 8, 1986, p5 [Bernhard Rayner] • Footy Brawl: 4 suspended; Diamond Valley News, Tuesday, August 26, 1986, p1 • DVFL Pennant to Heidelberg; Diamond Valley News, Tuesday, September 23, 1986, p77 11. News clippings (1990s) • Sunday best!; Advertiser, Tuesday, May 30, 1995, p1 • Photo: DVFL football was plagued by mud-bound grounds at the weekend as shown by this Diamond Creek – Reservoir-Lakeside clash. A full report starts on Page 20; Advertiser, Tuesday, July 4, 1995 • It’s Eltham! Panthers claim Division Two flag in historic win over Preston; Advertiser, Tuesday, September 19, 1995, p1 • Boom Time For Sport; Advertiser, Tuesday, September 19, 1995, p3 • DVFL provisional Div. 1 fixture; Advertiser, Tuesday, November 14, 1995, p18 • Panton Hill F.C. joins Diamond Valley; Advertiser, Tuesday, October 29, 1996, p21 12. News clippings (2000s) • Bailing out water hogs; A plan to pull the plug on muddy sports ovals and lift residents’ game; Diamond Valley Leader, Wednesday, July 20, 2005, p1 • Clubs pleased about plan to upgrade ovals; Diamond Valley Leader, Wednesday, July 20, 2005, p3 • Panthers pounce on the flag; Diamond Valley Leader, Wednesday, September 21, 2005 • Eltham Junior Football Club (photo); Diamond Valley Leader, Wednesday, June 21, 2006 • DVFL reforms to go to vote; Diamond Valley Leader, May 2, 2007, p33 • Panthers end Dogs’ great start; League awards Round 2 games; Diamond Valley Leader, May 30, 2007, p31 • Veteran umpires match up at game; Diamond Valley Leader, August, 2007 • Max Kirwan Mazda Congratulates Eltham Junior Football Club On Another Successful Season in 2007; Two more Division 1 Premierships for the mighty Panthers! ; Diamond Valley Leader, August 29, 2007, p60 [Photo] • Max Kirwan Mazda Congratulates Eltham Junior Football Club On Another Successful Season in 2008; Two more NFL Premierships for the mighty Panthers!; Diamond Valley Leader, August 27, 2008, p56 [Photo] • It’s V for victory for talented; Diamond Valley Leader, October 8, 2008 [Photo] • Max Kirwan Mazda Congratulates Eltham Junior Football Club On Another Successful Season in 2009; Three more NFL Premierships for the mighty Panthers!; Diamond Valley Leader, September 23, 2009, p56 [Photo] 13. News clippings (2010s) • Footy fund-raiser for Maddison; Heidelberg & Diamond Valley Weekly, February 23, 2010 • Kicking goals against cancer; Diamond Valley Leader, July 10, 2010 • Max Kirwan Mazda Congratulates Eltham Junior Football Club On Another Successful Season in 2010; Three more First Division NFL Premierships for the mighty Panthers!; Diamond Valley Leader, September 22, 2010, p56 [Photo] • Keen Colm giant killer; Diamond Valley Leader, Wednesday, July 10, 2013 • Heartfelt thanks; Heroes, saviours honoured; Herald Sun, Saturday, December 13, 2014, p2 • Footy: Eltham v. Greensborough; The Weekly Review, March 23, 2016 • Flyer: Girls’ Skills Session; Eltham Football Club; 2017 • Perfect plan delivers a flag; Diamond Valley Leader, Wednesday, September 11, 2019, p33 • Panther Cubs Take High Marks by Mal Harrop, Eltham Town Community News, n.d. p13 eltham panthers, eltham football club, diamond valley football league

Photographer notations on slide: Scotch v. Xavier - Olympic Park B42 At the first match of the 1934 Public Schools Premiership and Championships at Olympic Park (where AAMI Park is now) between Scotch College (white shorts) and Xavier College, (black shorts) a mark is missed by Xavier players and then taken by a Scotch player. Research by project volunteer, Fiona Collyer: A crowd of schoolboys standing behind a picket fence, watch with anticipation as two teams contest a football at the goalposts. The Public Schools Premiership and Championship was an Australian Rules football tournament held every winter over five weeks between six schools- Scotch College, Xavier College, Melbourne Grammar, Wesley College and traditional rivals Geelong Grammar and Geelong College. The school that won the most games out of the five played, won the competition. As the 1933 Premiers, Xavier College had the honour of playing the opening match of the season on 28 June against runners-up Scotch College at Olympic Park (where AAMI Park is now). The Public Schools Premiership matches were widely reported in Melbourne’s daily newspapers with photographs and commentary of every game. Weekly society magazine “Table Talk” featured reports and seven photographs of the first games of the season. Australian Broadcasting Commission (ABC) wireless station 3AR interspersed their afternoon program of reproduced music with detailed descriptions of the matches. Also reporting the matches was “Forty-Years-On”, presumably a student in the 1890s, whose regular column in The Herald newspaper “Activities In The Public Schools” published all the latest news on Victoria’s public (private) schools. In his column for The Australasian 7 July 1934, “Old Boy” writes about the Scotch versus Xavier match: “For more than half the game last week, Scotch was outplayed, but took the lead early in the last term and kept it. Scotch surprised even its own supporters by its dash in the last 25 minutes. Xavier, who became over confident by the prospects of victory, could not withstand the final onslaught. In the last quarter Scotch was the better side and won by seven points.” The final score was Scotch 11.11 (77 points) and Xavier 10.10 (70 points). At the end of this exciting match the overjoyed Scotch boys swarmed over the Olympic Park fences to chair their captain, Stanley Steele and carry him shoulder high, to the pavilion. The first documented game of a variation of Australian Rules football was played at Richmond Paddock (now Yarra Park) from 7 August 1858. Australian Rules football writer Hugh Buggy of The Argus 16 April 1952 explains: “It began when boys and masters of Scotch College and Melbourne Grammar School decided to play a 40-a-side game, with the first team to score two goals to be the winner. Goal posts were pitched more than a mile apart, one set on the Jolimont Hill and the other at Punt road Richmond. Nobody defined the boundary, and the play swung over the broad acres of the park and around the gum trees. It went on and on like a Test match, from noon till dusk. After 15 hours of play on three Saturdays the score was one goal all, and the game was abandoned for that season.” Rules of the game hadn’t been decided at this time - the earliest known rules were codified a year later in 1859. A sculpture and plaque located outside the Melbourne Cricket Ground (MCG), created by sculptor Louis Laumen in 2001, commemorates this game. It depicts two school boys chasing a ball along with umpire Tom Wills, a co-writer of the rules and promoter of Australian Rules football. A medley of Gaelic football, an Aboriginal game called marngrook as well as football played in English public (that is private) schools have been cited as inspiration for Australian Rules football. The word “Marngrook” meaning “game ball”, comes from the language of the Gunditjmara, First Nations people of southwestern Victoria. Marngrook was played at gatherings and celebrations and involved players competing to jump and catch the ball after it was kicked high into the air. The player that catches the ball then gets to kick it. The ball was made from possum skin, filled with pounded charcoal and tied with kangaroo sinews. Protector of Aborigines in Victoria, William Thomas (1794-1867) observed in 1841- “The men and boys joyfully assemble when this game is to be played. One makes a ball of possum skin, somewhat elastic, but firm and strong… The players of this game do not throw the ball as a white man might do, but drop it and at the same time kick it with their feet, using the instep for that purpose. The tallest men have the best chances in this game. Some of them will leap as high as five feet from the ground to catch the ball. The person who secures the ball kicks it. This continues for hours and the natives never seem to tire of the exercise.” The Victorian Football League (VFL), was founded in 1897 with eight teams playing Australian Rules football and held its first Grand Final at the MCG in 1902. From the start the games attracted large enthusiastic crowds, which included women. “Viva” writing in the Supplement to The Weekly Times - 3 July 1886 LADIES COLUMN (By Viva) FOOTBALL. A Social Sketch. “…Of the popularity of football and footballers among women, there can be no doubt. Young, soft hearted girls, who would not “tread upon a worm," avow that football matches are "awfully jolly," and seem to regard accidents as a necessary part of the amusement…a great proportion of the spectators were ladies.” “Minetta” writing for Punch Magazine - “Ladies Letter, Holmby House, Toorak” 22 June 1905 “The "Football Girl" is a feminine genus at present much to the fore in Melbourne. Not that she plays football—at least not beyond a kick in the backyard or paddock—oh, dear, no! Her interest in the game is purely from a spectacular point of view. "Football Girls" usually hunt in couples, with two male barrackers attached. They know all about So-and-So's form, and whether he is a trier or has been bought. They go to each match of their particular club, and watch the play intently, their faces wearing a decidedly strained expression when their club is getting the worst of it. They are not ashamed to barrack either, when matters are progressing successfully… Yours ever, MINETTA.” The Herald 2 July 1909 published a cartoon by Ambrose Dyson depicting women football fans, which asked- “THE QUESTION OF THE DAY. Should Girls Go To Football Matches? Should they? The sex made up their mind about the matter very early on.” The resounding answer was- “Well, I’d like to see the man that would stop me!” At the final match of the 1934 tournament on August 2, Melbourne Grammar finished the season unbeaten, winning their tenth Public Schools premiership in 16 years. The Weekly Times 11 August 1934 reported-“Melbourne Grammar…had a rather lucky escape against Xavier…Had a Xavier player not touched a shot, kicked by a team-mate, as it was going through goal Grammar would have been beaten.” Final score - Melbourne Grammar 13.7 (85 points) defeated Xavier College 12.9 (81 points). Ladder for the 1934 Season- Melbourne Grammar-5 wins Wesley College- 4 wins Scotch College- 3 wins Xavier College- 2 wins Geelong Grammar- 1 win Geelong College- 0 wins The Associated Public Schools of Victoria (APS) exists today where eleven member (private) schools, including co-educational schools, participate in 21 sporting competitions throughout the year. (The descriptor “Public School” references the historical usage of the term and the model of the British public). PUBLIC SCHOOLS FOOTBALL BEGINS WITH SCOTCH--XAVIER MATCH. (1934, June 29). The Age (Melbourne, Vic. : 1854 - 1954), p. 11. Retrieved June 23, 2025, from http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article204824484 PUBLIC SCHOOLS FOOTBALL AT OLYMPIC PARK (1934, July 5). Table Talk (Melbourne, Vic. : 1885 - 1939), p. 5. Retrieved May 30, 2025, from http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article149682433 PUBLIC SCHOOLS FOOTBALL. (1936, July 3). The Argus (Melbourne, Vic. : 1848 - 1957), p. 18. Retrieved May 30, 2025, from http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article11888301 PUBLIC SCHOOLS. (1934, June 29). The Age (Melbourne, Vic. : 1854 - 1954), p. 5. Retrieved August 6, 2025, from http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article204824486 https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_Australian_rules_football COLLEGE SPORTS (1934, July 7). The Australasian (Melbourne, Vic. : 1864 - 1946), p. 48 (METROPOLITAN EDITION). Retrieved August 6, 2025, from http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article145238393 GRAMMAR CHAMPIONS (1934, August 11). Weekly Times (Melbourne, Vic. : 1869 - 1954), p. 72. Retrieved August 6, 2025, from http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article224562842 LETS LOOK AT FOOTBALL with HUGH BUGGY (1952, April 16). The Argus (Melbourne, Vic. : 1848 - 1957), p. 9. Retrieved August 6, 2025, from http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article23174340 FOR YOUNG PEOPLE AMONG THE SCHOOLS. (1934, August 7). The Age (Melbourne, Vic. : 1854 - 1954), p. 4. Retrieved August 6, 2025, from http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article205521661 https://www.nma.gov.au/defining-moments/resources/australian-rules-football#:~:text=In%20the%20winter%20of%201858,games%20of%20Australian%20Rules%20football. https://apssport.org.au/about/ http://lindsaymagazine.co/from-marngrook-to-australian-rules-football/ https://collection.australiansportsmuseum.org.au/objects/70993/possum-skin-ball FOOTBALL. (1886, July 3). Weekly Times (Melbourne, Vic. : 1869 - 1954), p. 6 (SUPPLEMENT TO THE STORY TELLER). Retrieved September 7, 2025, from http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article221741193 Ladies' Letter. (1905, June 22). Punch (Melbourne, Vic. : 1900 - 1918; 1925), p. 28. Retrieved September 22, 2025, from http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article175410975 THE QUESTION OF THE DAY. (1909, July 2). The Herald (Melbourne, Vic. : 1861 - 1954), p. 9. Retrieved September 22, 2025, from http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article242062970Photographer notations on slide: Scotch v. Xavier - Olympic Park B42football, schools

Photographer notations on slide: Scotch v Xavier - Olympic Park B42 Published: 29 June 1934 Published title: PUBLIC SCHOOLS FOOTBALL BEGINS WITH SCOTCH--XAVIER MATCH. Published caption: “The Public Schools 1934 Football season began yesterday when Scotch met Xavier on the Olympic Park ground, and after a wonderful recovery in the third term, Scotch registered a narrow win. Pictured above is the crowd of Scotch boys who congregated behind the goal after the addition of another goal to their score.” Description: Scotch College pupils exuberantly cheer their team’s goal at the first football match of the Public Schools Premiership and Championship for 1934 between Scotch College and Xavier College at Olympic Park, Melbourne (where AAMI Park is now). Research by project volunteer, Fiona Collyer: The Public Schools Premiership and Championship was an Australian Rules football tournament held every winter, over five weeks between six schools- Scotch College, Xavier College, Melbourne Grammar, Wesley College and traditional rivals Geelong Grammar and Geelong College. The school that won the most games out of the five played, won the competition. As the 1933 Premiers, Xavier College had the honour of playing the opening match of the season on 28 June against runners-up Scotch College at Olympic Park (where AAMI Park is now). The Public Schools Premiership matches were widely reported in Melbourne’s daily newspapers with photographs and commentary of every game. Weekly society magazine “Table Talk” featured reports and seven photographs of the first games of the season. Australian Broadcasting Commission (ABC) wireless station 3AR interspersed their afternoon program of reproduced music with detailed descriptions of the matches. Also reporting the matches was “Forty-Years-On”, presumably a student in the 1890s, whose regular column in The Herald newspaper “Activities In The Public Schools” published all the latest news on Victoria’s public (private) schools. In his column for The Australasian 7 July 1934, “Old Boy” writes about the Scotch versus Xavier match- “For more than half the game last week, Scotch was outplayed, but took the lead early in the last term and kept it. Scotch surprised even its own supporters by its dash in the last 25 minutes. Xavier, who became over confident by the prospects of victory, could not withstand the final onslaught. In the last quarter Scotch was the better side and won by seven points.” The final score was Scotch 11.11 (77 points) and Xavier 10.10 (70 points). At the end of this exciting match the overjoyed Scotch boys swarmed over the Olympic Park fences to chair their captain, Stanley Steele and carry him shoulder high, to the pavilion. The first documented game of a variation of Australian Rules football was played at Richmond Paddock (now Yarra Park) from 7 August 1858. Australian Rules football writer Hugh Buggy of The Argus 16 April 1952 explains- “It began when boys and masters of Scotch College and Melbourne Grammar School decided to play a 40-a-side game, with the first team to score two goals to be the winner. Goal posts were pitched more than a mile apart, one set on the Jolimont Hill and the other at Punt road Richmond. Nobody defined the boundary, and the play swung over the broad acres of the park and around the gum trees. It went on and on like a Test match, from noon till dusk. After 15 hours of play on three Saturdays the score was one goal all, and the game was abandoned for that season.” Rules of the game hadn’t been decided at this time - the earliest known rules were codified a year later in 1859. A sculpture and plaque located outside the Melbourne Cricket Ground (MCG), created by sculptor Louis Laumen in 2001, commemorates this game. It depicts two school boys chasing a ball along with umpire Tom Wills, a co-writer of the rules and promoter of Australian Rules football. A medley of Gaelic football, an Aboriginal game called marngrook as well as football played in English public (that is private) schools have been cited as inspiration for Australian Rules football. The word “Marngrook” meaning “game ball”, comes from the language of the Gunditjmara, First Nations people of southwestern Victoria. Marngrook was played at gatherings and celebrations and involved players competing to jump and catch the ball after it is kicked high into the air. The player that catches the ball then gets to kick it. The ball was made from possum skin, filled with pounded charcoal and tied with kangaroo sinews. Protector of Aborigines in Victoria, William Thomas (1794-1867) observed in 1841- “The men and boys joyfully assemble when this game is to be played. One makes a ball of possum skin, somewhat elastic, but firm and strong… The players of this game do not throw the ball as a white man might do, but drop it and at the same time kick it with their feet, using the instep for that purpose. The tallest men have the best chances in this game. Some of them will leap as high as five feet from the ground to catch the ball. The person who secures the ball kicks it. This continues for hours and the natives never seem to tire of the exercise.” The Victorian Football League (VFL), was founded in 1897 with eight teams playing Australian Rules football and held its first Grand Final at the MCG in 1902. From the start the games attracted large enthusiastic crowds, which included women. “Viva” writing in the Supplement to The Weekly Times-3 July 1886- LADIES COLUMN (By Viva) FOOTBALL. A Social Sketch. “…Of the popularity of football and footballers among women, there can be no doubt. Young, soft hearted girls, who would not “tread upon a worm," avow that football matches are "awfully jolly," and seem to regard accidents as a necessary part of the amusement…a great proportion of the spectators were ladies.” “Minetta” writing for Punch Magazine - “Ladies Letter, Holmby House, Toorak” 22 June 1905 “The "Football Girl" is a feminine genus at present much to the fore in Melbourne. Not that she plays football—at least not beyond a kick in the backyard or paddock—oh, dear, no! Her interest in the game is purely from a spectacular point of view. "Football Girls" usually hunt in couples, with two male barrackers attached. They know all about So-and-So's form, and whether he is a trier or has been bought. They go to each match of their particular club, and watch the play intently, their faces wearing a decidedly strained expression when their club is getting the worst of it. They are not ashamed to barrack either, when matters are progressing successfully… Yours ever, MINETTA.” The Herald 2 July 1909 published a cartoon by Ambrose Dyson depicting women football fans, which asked- “THE QUESTION OF THE DAY. Should Girls Go To Football Matches? Should they? The sex made up their mind about the matter very early on.” The resounding answer was- “Well, I’d like to see the man that would stop me!” At the final match of the 1934 tournament on August 2, Melbourne Grammar finished the season unbeaten, winning their tenth Public Schools premiership in 16 years. The Weekly Times 11 August 1934 reported-“Melbourne Grammar…had a rather lucky escape against Xavier…Had a Xavier player not touched a shot, kicked by a team-mate, as it was going through goal Grammar would have been beaten.” Final score - Melbourne Grammar 13.7 (85 points) defeated Xavier College 12.9 (81 points). Ladder for the 1934 Season- Melbourne Grammar-5 wins Wesley College- 4 wins Scotch College- 3 wins Xavier College- 2 wins Geelong Grammar- 1 win Geelong College- 0 wins The Associated Public Schools of Victoria (APS) exists today where eleven member (private) schools, including co-educational schools, participate in 21 sporting competitions throughout the year. (The descriptor “Public School” references the historical usage of the term and the model of the British public school). PUBLIC SCHOOLS FOOTBALL BEGINS WITH SCOTCH--XAVIER MATCH. (1934, June 29). The Age (Melbourne, Vic. : 1854 - 1954), p. 11. Retrieved June 18, 2025, from http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article204824484 PUBLIC SCHOOLS FOOTBALL AT OLYMPIC PARK (1934, July 5). Table Talk (Melbourne, Vic. : 1885 - 1939), p. 5. Retrieved June 18, 2025, from http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article149682433 PUBLIC SCHOOLS. (1934, June 29). The Age (Melbourne, Vic. : 1854 - 1954), p. 5. Retrieved June 3, 2025, from http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article204824486 PUBLIC SCHOOLS FOOTBALL. (1936, July 3). The Argus (Melbourne, Vic. : 1848 - 1957), p. 18. Retrieved August 6, 2025, from http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article11888301 https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_Australian_rules_football COLLEGE SPORTS (1934, July 7). The Australasian (Melbourne, Vic. : 1864 - 1946), p. 48 (METROPOLITAN EDITION). Retrieved May 30, 2025, from http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article145238393 GRAMMAR CHAMPIONS (1934, August 11). Weekly Times (Melbourne, Vic. : 1869 - 1954), p. 72. Retrieved June 1, 2025, from http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article224562842 LETS LOOK AT FOOTBALL with HUGH BUGGY (1952, April 16). The Argus (Melbourne, Vic. : 1848 - 1957), p. 9. Retrieved June 15, 2025, from http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article23174340 FOR YOUNG PEOPLE AMONG THE SCHOOLS. (1934, August 7). The Age (Melbourne, Vic. : 1854 - 1954), p. 4. Retrieved June 14, 2025, from http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article205521661 https://www.nma.gov.au/defining-moments/resources/australian-rules-football#:~:text=In%20the%20winter%20of%201858,games%20of%20Australian%20Rules%20football. https://apssport.org.au/about/ http://lindsaymagazine.co/from-marngrook-to-australian-rules-football/ https://collection.australiansportsmuseum.org.au/objects/70993/possum-skin-ball FOOTBALL. (1886, July 3). Weekly Times (Melbourne, Vic. : 1869 - 1954), p. 6 (SUPPLEMENT TO THE STORY TELLER). Retrieved September 7, 2025, from http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article221741193 Ladies' Letter. (1905, June 22). Punch (Melbourne, Vic. : 1900 - 1918; 1925), p. 28. Retrieved September 11, 2025, from http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article175410975 THE QUESTION OF THE DAY. (1909, July 2). The Herald (Melbourne, Vic. : 1861 - 1954), p. 9. Retrieved September 17, 2025, from http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article242062970 Photographer notations on slide: Scotch v Xavier - Olympic Park B42schools, football

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Members of the Eltham District Historical Society transfer collection items from storage into their new home. Previously occupied by the Parks and Environment Department of Nillumbik Shire Council (L-R: Mark Gillham, Margaret Ball Vice President, Sue Law Immediate Past President, Harry Gilham President) Nillumbik Shire Council Commissioner Vin Heffernan (1996-97) worked with Harry Gilham to obtain use of the former Eltham Shire Parks and Gardens office at 728 Main Road for use by the Society. Harry as a younger man had played in the scrum for Heidelberg Football Club along with Vin's brother who was on the wing. Apparently Heffernan was able to access $30K to spend on the site to fix it up for occupation.Colour photographeltham district historical society, harry gilham, margaret ball, mark gilham, sue law, local history centre, 728 main road, activities, eltham, justice precinct, police residence