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Incidents
Mail - Adelaide 12May1928 p9 WHAT MAY HAPPEN AT LATE-FINISHING FOOTBALL MATCHES
Advertiser - Adelaide 12Jun1938 p5 Rough Football in the Mallee League
Daily News - Perth - 3Jun1933 p8 A Crash Helmet
Examiner - Launceston 30May1938 p12 Lost Both Trousers and Match
Probably not an Aussie Rules story - but worth leaving in anyway.
HorshamTimes 16Jun1925 p5 Unusual Incident
Kalgoolie Miner 19Jul1940 p4 Footballer Injured
Port Pirie Recorder and North Western Mail 20Jul1910p4 Amusing Episode at Football Match
The Daily News - Perth 13Feb1946 p11 Near Drowning
The Register - Adelaide - 23Aug1927 p12 The Wrong Bell
Kicking
Advertiser - Adelaide 11Aug1927 p16 Remarkable Goal Kicking
Argus 23May1940 p12 Last Kick Lost a Final
Argus 27Jun1921 p9 Fifty Goals
Horsham Times 29Aug1924 p8 Football Kicked into Train
Mercury - Hobart 12Aug1950 p12 Score Still a Behind
The Daily News Perth 15Jul1950 p1 Shot for Goal KOs Spectator
Lost Ball
Mercury - Hobart 1Jul1929p4 Lost Ball
The Register - Adelaide 6Aug1904 p8 Football Humour
The Register - Adelaide 28Sep1920 p4 A Lost Football
Miscellaneous
Daily News - Perth 17Jun1933 p5 The Trials of the Football Trainer— A Gurney Cartoon
Horsham Times 28Apr1953 p8 Beat the Tin for Time
Argus 27Jul1955 p1 No Points to This Goalie
Kalgoorlie Miner 5Mar1907 p3 Football Teams Black Cat
Mail - Adelaide 24Jan1953 p12 Electronic Scoreboard
Electric scorecboards were used at the Davis Cup and at the MCG through the 1956 Olympics but this example is way ahead of it's time.
Mercury -Hobart 25Jun1924 p12 Football Hysteria
Strange Matches
Mail - Adelaide 14Jul1928 p9 SUGGESTED MEANS OF DETECTING UNFAIR TACTICS ON FOOTBALL FIELD
Advertiser - Adelaide 12Jun1933 p16 Football Team with 19 men
Central Queensland Herald - Rockhampton 24Jun1937 p21 Two Men play a Strange Match
Portland Guardian 8May1952 p1 An Unusual Incident
The Advertiser - Adelaide 12Dec1932 p18 Strange Ending
The Argus 18Sep1913 p5 Trophy Goes to Hospital
The Sydney Morning Herald 27Jun1927 p12 Free Fights
The Sydney Morning Herald 27Sep1920 p7 Football Incident
TheAge 31-May-1933 p7 Thornbury
Supporters
Mail - Adelaide 19May1928 p11 BARRACKERS AS WELL AS PLAYERS PROVIDE AMUSEMENT AT FOOTBALL MATCHES
Mail - Adelaide 2Jul1927 p8 Football from the other side of the fence
Advertiser - Adelaide 26Aug1946 p7 Whyalla Man Wins Unusual Wager
Advocate - Burnie 11Sep1950 p8 Lost Dog
Mercury - Hobart 9Nov1937 p5 Honest Supporter
Singleton Argus 18Jul1934 p3 Prize for Best Barracker
Sunday Times - Perth 2Sep1928 p1s Unusual Police Case
Umpire
Daily News- Perth 30Jul1935 p6 Fortune Teller
Argus 20Aug1934 p13 Player Blows Whistle
Argus 21Jul1930 p9 Players chase Umpire
Argus 25Jun1954 p23 Umpire v Umpire
Barrier Miner 10Jul1908 p4 Remarkable Football Match
Barrier Miner 24Jul1926p3 An Umpire Threatened
Chronicle - Adelaide 2Aug1934 p29 More Wild Scenes at Football
Gippsland Times 31Jul1919 p3 Goal Flags
Horsham Times 22Jul1924 p5 Amusing Football Incident
The Daily News Perth 9Sep1950p1 Sick Umpire
The Register - Adelaide 25Jun1923 p6 Amusing Football Incident
Weather
Northern Times - Carnarvon WA 17Jun1911 p3 Football in the Snow
The Argus 30Jul1936 p17 Four Play 18
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