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Goulburn & the Tablelands (Yass, Young) · Sport

Sport, 1886

421 stories in Goulburn & the Tablelands (Yass, Young)'s papers · page 15 of 22

Football

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Saturday 21 August 1886 · page 4

ON Saturday last the first fifteen of St. Patrick's College Football Club, and a like number of the Goulburn Club met at Eastgrove, on which occasion, as on two previous occasions this season, "the boys"…

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Cricket

Goulburn Herald · Saturday 21 August 1886 · page 4

THE AUSTRALIAN ELEVEN IN ENGLAND.—The return match between the Australian Eleven and the County of Gloucester was continued at Cheltenham on Tuesday. The weather was dull and cloudy,…

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Football

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Thursday 26 August 1886 · page 2

ON Saturday next, 28th instant, at Eastgrove will be witnessed one of the finest matches ever played in Goulburn. The present students of St. Patrick's College will be met by a team of the…

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Cricket

Goulburn Herald · Thursday 26 August 1886 · page 3

THE AUSTRALIAN ELEVEN IN ENGLAND.—The Australian cricketers commenced a match on Monday against an eleven representing past and present members of Cambridge University, at Leyton, in…

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Athletics

Goulburn Herald · Thursday 26 August 1886 · page 3

THE PEDESTRIAN CHAMPIONSHIP OF ENGLAND.—A cablegram states that George, the English amateur athlete, has defeated Cummings, the Scotch professional runner, at one mile, lowering the best record…

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Football Match

Crookwell Gazette · Friday 27 August 1886 · page 2

Notwithstanding the extreme inclemency of the weather on Saturday a goodly number of spectators turned out to witness the match which took place…

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Football

Goulburn Herald · Saturday 28 August 1886 · page 4

PAST V. PRESENT STUDENTS OF Sr. PATRICK'S COLLEGE.—This afternoon a match, which should prove the most exciting and best contested of the season, will take place at Eastgrove between the…

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Cricket

Goulburn Herald · Saturday 28 August 1886 · page 4

THE AUSTRALIAN ELEVEN IN ENGLAND.—The match between the Australian Eleven and Cambridge University (past and present) was continued at Leyton on Tuesday, in the presence of a large…

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Football

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Tuesday 31 August 1886 · page 2

BY the mail train on Friday night last the ex-students of St. Patrick's College arrived in the city where their school days were spent, and of which they have always kept and will keep fond…

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Cricket

Goulburn Herald · Tuesday 31 August 1886 · page 2

THE AUSTRALIAN ELEVEN IN ENGLAND.—The match between the Australian Eleven and the Country of Sussex was continued at Brighton on Friday. The attendance was good and the weather…

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Athletics

Goulburn Herald · Thursday 2 September 1886 · page 3

The final beats in this contest were run on Monday last at Botany. After the second and third rounds, the following four were left in for the final contest, which resulted as…

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Football

Crookwell Gazette · Friday 3 September 1886 · page 2

A meeting of the committee of the Football Club was held on Tuesday evening, there being present, Messrs. W. H. Oram (in the chair), G. Tillett (treasurer), J…

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Cricket

Goulburn Herald · Saturday 4 September 1886 · page 3
Also in Goulburn Evening Penny Post

THE AUSTRALIAN ELEVEN IN ENGLAND. —The match at Gravesend between the Australian eleven and an eleven of the South of England was continued on Tuesday. The Englishman finished their first…

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Athletics

Goulburn Herald · Saturday 4 September 1886 · page 3

The recently arrived American walker, Harriman, and the new Zealander, Scott, concluded their six days and nights' walking match at eleven o'clock on Saturday night, at Launceston, in the presence of a…

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Football

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Tuesday 7 September 1886 · page 2

A TEAM of the Goulburn Football Club journeyed to Gunning on Saturday and played the Blakney Creek Club, over whom they scored a decisive victory by 14 points to nil. The visitors were well treated…

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Lawn Tennis

The Yass Courier · Tuesday 7 September 1886 · page 2

ON Saturday afternoon another series of interesting matches at tennis were played on the lawn in Victoria Park between ladies and gentlemen from Goulburn, and the ladies and…

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Goulburn Coursing Club

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Thursday 9 September 1886 · page 2

THE committee of the above have drawn up the programme for the final meeting of the season, which takes place on Thursday and Friday, 30th September and 1st October. It consists of the…

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Football

Goulburn Herald · Thursday 9 September 1886 · page 3

ON Monday the Sydney football team played the representative team of the Wairarapa district, in the Wellington Province (N.Z.), at the town of Masterton. The game was stubbornly contested, and the…

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Cricket

Goulburn Herald · Thursday 9 September 1886 · page 3

THE AUSTRALIAN ELEVEN IN ENGLAND.—The Australian eleven commenced a match at Searborough on the 2nd instant, against an eleven selected by Lord Londesborough, which included W…

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