Intercolonial Football Match
A match took place on Saturday under the association rules between a team from Sydney and a team selected from the English members of the Victorian…
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Sport, 1885
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Latest Sporting News. FOOTBALL
The Wallsend team of footballers, accompanied by about 40 of their admirers, proceeded on Saturday to Maitland to try conclusions with the Northumberlands of…
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SYDNEY, Tuesday.—In the boxing match for £100, arranged between Jack Hall and G. Powel, the first deposit has been made. The match comes off in six weeks' time,…
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In accordance with the advertisement which appeared in this journal, the running off took place on Saturday, the 18th instant, opposite the Newcastle Rifles Hotel,…
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News has been received at Auckland that an English team, called "The Rovers' Football Club," will visit Australia and New Zealand during next year, leaving…
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LORD HARRIS'S letter to the Lancashire County Cricket Club on the subject of unfair bowling (says the European Mail) is another illustration of the…
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NEWCASTLE V. ALBIONS.—The match between these clubs came off on Saturday afternoon last, on the former club's ground, and, after a very hard struggle, resulted in a…
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Wallsend will be the scene of a very big match this afternoon, the sides being Wallsend and Plattsburg versus the Sydney Club. The former is considered the crack club of the Northern District,…
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The match between the Wallsend and the Sydney clubs attracted a large number of spectators to Wallsend on Saturday. Fully 2000 people watched the game with great interest. When time was…
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On Saturday morning the Sydney footballers, together with several visitors, arrived in Newcastle, where they were met by Hutchison, who had a bus engaged to carry them to…
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The July meeting of the Williamstown Racing Club took place on Saturday. The Hurdle Race was won by Master Pinetop, the favourite, with Grattan and Mistake…
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The British Football Association has invited a representative Australian football team to visit England, and play a series of matches next season…
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A match under Rugby rules will be played on the football ground to-morrow afternoon between the Newcastle Football Club and a team of the Half-holiday Association…
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A lad was summoned by the police for having played football on Sunday in the Royal Park. The Bench dismissed the case…
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THE members of the Newcastle City Club will indulge in a scratch match in Arnott's paddock this afternoon—kick-off at 4 o'clock. It is hoped that a goodly number…
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TAMWORTH, Wednesday.—The first day's racing in connection with the local club's annual gathering took place to-day, and passed off very successfully. There was a…
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AGAIN have the lovers of the N.S.W. Association game got to put up with a disappointment, as the local cricket ground has been rendered unfit for football by the…
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The fencing of the Newcastle City Club's new ground, which is situated at the rear of the Castlemaine Brewery, is almost completed. When the enclosure is a little more thickly grassed, it…
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THESE races, the first to commence the opening events of the season, came, off on the course, near Ashfield, on Saturday afternoon. Since the last meeting a great improvement…
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On Saturday afternoon the members of the Newcastle City Club held a really good practice in Arnott's paddock. Sides of about fifteen each were chosen by the…
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