Mero
Norm Smith Medallist
This is something I find from time to time in my research.
People contact me with 'facts' they've found online, mostly from Wikipedia
Here's one:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Number_(sports)
The International Federation of Football History and Statistics, an organization of association football historians, traces the origin of numbers to a 1911 Australian football match in Sydney.
Ah, so they couldn't have worn numbers on those Collingwood and Fitzroy jumpers in 1903, because nobody in the world wore them until 1911.
But here's a photo from the game.
http://australianfootball.com/uploads/default/images/page_content/2012/07/5becd.FitzVColl1903.jpg
That's the SCG, you can tell by the grandstand.
That's Aussie Rules football they're playing, not rugby.
Here's the newspaper article from the day:
http://trove.nla.gov.au/ndp/del/article/9805380
And nobody else played in Sydney until the late 1970s.
What's worst about this, I found this one myself on one of my favorite time wasting sites, TIL (Today I Learned)
People contact me with 'facts' they've found online, mostly from Wikipedia
Here's one:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Number_(sports)
The International Federation of Football History and Statistics, an organization of association football historians, traces the origin of numbers to a 1911 Australian football match in Sydney.
Ah, so they couldn't have worn numbers on those Collingwood and Fitzroy jumpers in 1903, because nobody in the world wore them until 1911.
But here's a photo from the game.
http://australianfootball.com/uploads/default/images/page_content/2012/07/5becd.FitzVColl1903.jpg
That's the SCG, you can tell by the grandstand.
That's Aussie Rules football they're playing, not rugby.
Here's the newspaper article from the day:
http://trove.nla.gov.au/ndp/del/article/9805380
And nobody else played in Sydney until the late 1970s.
What's worst about this, I found this one myself on one of my favorite time wasting sites, TIL (Today I Learned)