Vinegar Mess
Team Captain
- Nov 18, 2014
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Hi all. I’m an historical researcher and sometimes spend hours at the State Library trawling through old newspapers on microfilm. I’m forever getting sidetracked on the sports pages of ancient copies of The Argus, The Age and the Sun News-Pictorial.
If anyone is interested in checking out reports of FFC/WB matches from the deep (and sometimes dark) past then feel free to nominate a game or incident you’d like to revisit. I’ll use this thread to post an excerpt from the contemporary newspaper(s) as a jpg file. It’ll be like creating a selective online archive.
Requests can be as vague or detailed as memory allows. Offering up “I remember a game when Norm Tivendale held Phil Carman to one goal” is just as good as suggesting “Footscray vs St Kilda at Western Oval, 1978 Round 13”.
I’ll reserve the first instalment for the first game I ever attended (a win!) which I’ll post during the next couple of days. Otherwise, suggestions are most welcome. Cheers.
If anyone is interested in checking out reports of FFC/WB matches from the deep (and sometimes dark) past then feel free to nominate a game or incident you’d like to revisit. I’ll use this thread to post an excerpt from the contemporary newspaper(s) as a jpg file. It’ll be like creating a selective online archive.
Requests can be as vague or detailed as memory allows. Offering up “I remember a game when Norm Tivendale held Phil Carman to one goal” is just as good as suggesting “Footscray vs St Kilda at Western Oval, 1978 Round 13”.
I’ll reserve the first instalment for the first game I ever attended (a win!) which I’ll post during the next couple of days. Otherwise, suggestions are most welcome. Cheers.