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ALBERTS FOOTBALL CLUB A JUNIOR TEAM IN LTON THOUGHT TO BE EARLY 1910S
Alberts Football Club – 1918 – 1919 – Junior Association Team from Launceston
Only player know is Jim Sheehan back row 4th from left looking right.
Former swimming champion
IAN STEWART ALBUERA PRIMARY FOOTBALL TEAM
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1902 Beaconsfield Football League – Team name unknown
BEACONSFIELD ROVERS FOOTBALL CLUB 1910
BEACONSFIELD SEAGULLS 1953
1910 Bellerive Football Club
BICHENO PRIMARY SCHOOL 1968/9
Shirley Brereton (Cygnet)
BRIGHTON FOOTBALL
BUCKINGHAM
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Premiers 1949
CAMPBELL TOWN FOOTBALL CLUB 1936 PREMIERS MIDLANDS FOOTBALL ASSN
1967 Canes Football Club
CASCADES BREWERY CHAMPIONS 1912
ABOVE PHOTO,S COURTESY www.BeattiesStudios.com
CASCADES FOOTBALL CLUB 1923
CHANNEL FOOTBALL CLUB 1968 ?
BOB CHEEK 
CLAREMONT FOOTBALL CLUB TCA LATE 60S
Adrian Collins – Tasmanian Football Historian
If you want to know anything about Tassie Football Adrian will be your man
RIP Adrian – September 2023
1950 Cornwall Football Club
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George D Challis
Launceston/Carlton, Wingman 1909 – 1915
Georgeʻs War medals & 1914 Carlton VFL Premiership Medal, 1911 Best Tasmanian Player at the ANF Carnival & 1909 Launceston FC Best Junior
Clearance of George Challis from Launceston to Victoria – April 16th 1912
> 70 games, 16 goals for Carlton, 1912-15
> Around 40 games for Launceston, 1909-11
> Carlton VFL premiership, 1915
> Launceston NTFA premiership, 1909
> Tasmanian National Carnival representative, 1911 (Adelaide)
> Bibby Trophy for best Tasmanian player at the National Carnival, 1911
> Victorian interstate representative, 1912
> Three representative matches for NTFA, 1909-11
There have been 153 VFL footballers who have given their lives in the service of their country, and there would be very few more popular or respected by the football community than George David Challis. A wingman of supreme skill and athleticism, Challis had achieved a reputation as one of the finest footballers of his era by the time his career, and ultimately his life, were cut short by the First World War.
Challis was born and raised in Cleveland in the Tasmanian midlands, the oldest of eight children. An outstanding student, he received a scholarship to Launceston High School, and excelled both academically and athletically. He began his football career at the Launceston Football Club in 1909, and in his first season he made a huge impression, starring in the Blues’ NTFA premiership and representing the NTFA against the TFL for the first of what became three consecutive years. In 1911 he was selected to represent Tasmania at the second Australian Football Carnival in Adelaide, where he would emerge from the tournament as his state’s stand-out performer, winning the Bibby Trophy as recognition of that fact; this was no mean feat in a team containing other legends such as captain Jack Gardiner and champion full back Algy Tynan.
Challis’ performances at the carnival immediately caught the attention of every VFL club, and it was Carlton who swooped on the talented 22-year-old. Challis, who had graduated from university with a teaching degree and taken a position at his old high school in Launceston, saw the opportunity to enhance both his professional and sporting careers with a move to Melbourne, and so relocated to Victoria, making his VFL debut for the Blues in the first match of 1912. He would play all 20 games for the season, including the Blues’ shattering four-point preliminary final loss to Essendon, and would also gain representative honours as part of Victoria’s interstate team. By season’s end many observers were heralding him as one of the best players in the league, an especially impressive feat considering he had undergone the transformation from rover/half forward flanker to a wingman of singular prowess. While his skills dazzled any who saw him play, his outwardly friendly and pleasant demeanour added yet still to the young man’s popularity within the football community, leading some to dub him ‘Cheerful Challis’ and ‘Genial George’.
On field, Challis’ star continued to shine brightly through 1913-14. Unfortunately, the popular star missed the Blues 1914 premiership through injury, however the following year he was back and better than ever, and was reckoned by many to be best afield in the Blues’ 33-point premiership win over Collingwood. That success would turn out to be Challis’ 70th and final game for the Blues, as shortly after that triumph Challis was on a troop ship bound for the Western Front of the First World War. Ironically, if Challis has had his way initially, he would have missed the 1915 premiership as well – he had tried to enlist soon after the outbreak of hostilities, but had been rejected on physical grounds as some of his toes overlapped. Eventually, with the demands for fighting men reaching epic proportions, Challis’ minor physical ailment was overlooked.
As a member of the 58th Battalion, 1st Australian Infantry Force (AIF) he eventually rose to the rank of Sergeant, and was killed during the operation known as the Battle of Fromelles in March 1916, when he was the victim of a direct shell hit on his trench near the village of Armentieres. He was just 25 years of age. News of his death was met with shock and sadness in Melbourne, and with significant grief in his hometown of Cleveland. His loss was made even more profound by the fact that Challis had paid a visit to the local school before he had shipped out, departing with the promise, “When I come back, I’ll teach you boys the finer points of the game.”
George Challis was without question one of the most talented and popular footballers from Tasmania to have played the game at the highest level, and even a century after his death his name is still a revered one both within the Carlton Football Club and the Tasmanian football fraternity.
#LestWeForget
Tim “TURBO” Carter (OHA) Dale “BRUNO” Cleary (OHA)
CRISP and GUNN – UNDEFEATED 1912
2002 SFL Regional Premiers – (Cygnet)
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Micheal “PUD” Darcy (Cygnet) Damien Dillon & Greg Gordon (Cygnet Legend)
DODGES FERRY 6-9-90
DODGES FERRY RESERVES SFL PREMIERS 2022
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ELIZABETH HIGH SCHOOL 1962
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1962 Fingal District Football Association Representative Team versus WTFA – 23rd June
1962 Fingal District Football Association Representative Team versus NEFU – 14th July
Fingal Football Club (Year Unknown)
1975 Fingal FC – Premiers
FINGAL PREMIERS 2007 NTFA DIV 2
FRANKLIN FOOTBALL CLUB
(NOTE ERROR IN ORDER HERE CONTINUE FOR FRANKLIN FRIENDS ETC )
GEORGE TOWN FOOTBALL BADGE 57
GEORGE TOWN PREMIERS 1979
GEORGE TOWN FOOTBALL
GLEBE FOOTBALL CLUB 1925
1960ʻs G P Fitzgerald Football Team
GRAY BROS FOOTBALL CLUB 1934
1903 Franklin Football Club
1906 Franklin Football Club
FRANKLIN FOOTBALL PREMIERS 1987 CENTENARY YEAR
1997 Franklin FC=CC WAYNE FOX -far left
FINGAL ASSN REP TEAM
Football @ Fingal 1st July 2017 – East Coast Swans v Tamar Cats
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Greg “DUCKY” Gordon (Cygnet)
1925 Glebe Football Team
GLENORCHY STATE SCHOOL OLD BOYS
GOVT PRINTER 1949 -PLAYED IN THE TAS PUBLIC SERVICE ASSN
STAN GRAHAM
1932 Gray Brothers Football Team
1934 Gray Brothers Football Team
1949 Government Printers Football Team
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1910 Hawthorn Football Team
HOBART HIGH 1938?
BACK ROW LEFT -JACK ROUGH-GEOFF FRIER-MARSHALL PRITCHARD-?-O FARRELL-GEOFF GRIGGS-ALWYN TAYLOR-DON BUTTERWORTH MID ROW LEFT-LES PLUNKETT-DON LENNOX -COLIN DOYLE -DWIGHT BROWN -GEOFF JOHNSTON -LIONEL KING-MAX BAKER-FRONT ROW LEFT-DIGBY PRIDMORE-STAN BARWICK-LYALL BROUGH-DENIS BRESNHAM-BILL KINGSTON -NAMES FROM GEOFF FRIER
HOBART HIGH SCHOOL JUMPER 1958
HOBART HIGH 1955
HOBART MATRIC
ABOVE PHOTO COURTESY www.beattiesStudios.com
HUTCHINS OLD BOYS 1936
1946 Hydro-Electric Commission Team
HYDRO FC 1947
bruce godfrey 3rd right front row
lionel matheson 2nd right player middle row
Pat Hartnett (Cananore) Peter Hudson (Glenorchy)
Kathryn “FLASH” Hodgman (Cygnet)
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1926 IXL Football Team
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1902 Kermandie Football Club
1905 Kermandie Football Club
1906 Kermandie Football Club
Article from Huon News October 2023
KETTERING FOOTBALL CLUB =MIDDLE -OSCAR PAMPLIN was – CC-
Kingston Football Club
1958
1985
1996 or 1997
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LILYDALE FOOTBALL CLUB -1982 COACH GREG RICKETTS -STATS MAN ROSS SMITH
LINDA VALLEY JUNIOR FOOTBALL PREMIERS 1908
LINDISFARNE FC 1913
LINDISFARNE FC 1914
LINDISFARNE FC 1919
LINDISFARNE FC 1920
1924 Lindisfarne FC – Premiers
1925 Lindisfarne FC
1950 Lindisfarne FC
BILL WAS BENCH COACH LINDISFARNE FC PREMIERS 1982
1956
LINDISFARNE (south) PRIMARY FOOTBALL TEAM 1957-PREMIERS
names below
LINDISFARNE LULUS AT NTH HOBART 1958 from SFL g/f program 2018
billie burns 5th left
LINDISFARNE U/19S 1959 -T KEAN CAPT -newtown oval
PREMIERS 1961
1961 PREMIERSHIP CAKE -left CAPT- DOGS HUDSON -SNOWY MORGAN -VICE CAPT- KEN WEEDING
PREMIERS 1962-absent -capt-dogs hudson
LINDISFARNE NORTH PRIMARY SCHOOL 1962 CAPTAIN PETER NUNN VICE CAPT GEOFF CLAYTON-lindisfarne no. 2 oval
LINDISFARNE U/19S 1963-CAPT JAKE CHIVERS -MASCOT GEOFF-JNR-FRIER -newtown oval
BELOW=BOBBY LUCAS LINDISFARNE AMATEURS B/F 1963 AND STATE AMATEUR PLAYER
1-ST LINDISFARNE BOWEN CUBS FOOTBALL TEAM 64/65 -richmond oval
ROSE BAY HIGH SCHOOL 1964 65
BACK ROW 4TH LEFT MARK BARLING
MID ROW LEFT DAVE ALDERTON -ALAN FRENCH- MURRAY DICKSON-6TH-GREG PEPPER ?-8TH STEVE ALLIE
FRONT ROW LEFT 2ND-SCOTT GODFREY -BRIAN CHAPMAN-COLIN SMITH- 5TH PETER NUNN
LINDISFARNE NORTH PRIMARY PREMIERS 1966
ROSE BAY HIGH OPEN FOOTBALL -mid 60s?
1968 Lindisfarne Under 17s – Premiers TFL B Division
LINDISFARNE U 19S 1969=PHOTO- JOE BARNETT
from left- k best capt -r priest vice capt -g clayton b/f
ROSE BAY HIGH OPEN 1969
ROSE BAY HIGH OPEN 1970
ROSE BAY HIGH -SENIOR TEAM 1971
LINDISFARNE U19 GRAND FINAL 1971
BACK ROW LEFT
S COSGROVE P GRIMMOND D JACK H FRANKEN C DAVEY J THURLEY B CHAPMAN P COLRAIN L MCVILLY
MID ROW LEFT
M OAKLEY M FREE D CHARLESWORTH A DOUBLE R FREE P JOHNSTON P KENNY P COOLEY R HAMMOND E OSBORNE
FRONT ROW LEFT
T COLRAIN S GODFREY D WATKINS G UPTON (C) P MORGAN (VC) M LEITCH W KINGSTON
FRONT LEFT
G MIDSON B MIDSON
TANFL U/19 ASSN FINALS PROGRAM
LINDISFARNE U17S 1972 New Town Oval
LINDISFARNE U-19S 1972
From left mascot G Midson – P Colrain – D Charlesworth – J Thurley – D Jack – V Moss – C Oakley-
G Geard – S Cosgrove- S Marshall – C Dillon – R Cashion – W Matheson –
T Jack – M Leitch – ? Pearce – P Cooley – M Free – G Midson – W Piper – D “Jezza” Gorringe
LINDISFARNE FC 1975 -cadburys oval
1977 RESERVES
1976 Lindisfarne FC
CLUB NOTES 1976
1977
1977
LINDISFARNE FC 1979-1st roster game
1979 SENIOR QUALIFYING FINAL
SENIOR 2 ND SEMI = RESERVES 1 ST SEMI
LINDISFARNE SENIOR GRAND FINAL TEAM 1979
1981 Lindisfarne FC
LINDISFARNE FC RESERVES at bridgewater 1981
1ST ROSTER MATCH 3 APRIL 82
1982 PRELIMINARY FINAL LINDISFARNE V SORELL AT CLAREMONT
LINDISFARNE PREMIERS 1982
1982 LINDISFARNE FC PREMIERS
LINDISFARNE FC RESERVES STATE PREMIERS 1986
MICHEAL FRY STATE PREMIERS MEDAL
LINDISFARNE FC RESERVES GRAND FINAL 1988
1988
LINDISFARNE FC RESERVES GRAND FINAL 1989
MICKY O= LINDISFARNE FC MAY 30 2013
LINDISFARNE FC SENIORS 2014
LINDISFARNE FC RESERVES 2014
LINDISFARNE FC RESERVES PREMIERS 2021
RESERVES PREMIERSHIP COACH KAINE MENZIE
2021 RESERVES PREMIERSHIP BEST ON GROUND
RESERVES PREMIERS 2021 WITH PREMIERSHIP TROPHY
LINDISFARNE COLTS PREMIERS SFL 2022
LINDISFARNE SENIORS PREMIERS SFL 2022
PHOTO COURTESY www.BeattiesStudios.com
LONG BEACH FOOTBALL CLUB PREMIERS 1935
LONG BEACH CLUB- PREMIERS 1949 -QUEENBOROUGH ASSN
LORDS FOOTBALL CLUB 1902
LOTTAH 1908 PREMIERS ?-FAR LEFT JACK HARTNETT -FAR RIGHT JACK CHARLESWORTH
LYELL MINERS 1920
MATHINNA FC 1901
ABOVE PHOTO COURTESY www.BeattiesStudios.com
MACALBURN U19s 1935 PREMIERS SSOBA
1939 Macalburn Under 19 Team
MACALBURN BLAZER 1947 BLAZER POCKET -BLAZER DONATED BY ATWELL FAMILY MAX ATWELL PLAYED THAT YEAR
1956 MACALBURN
1973 AUSTRALIAN INDIGENOUS FOOTBALL TEAM V PNG =MICHEAL MANSELL far right =SIR DOUG NICHOLLS far left
1920 Melrose FC – Premiers – Jim Blackaby Collection
1920 Melrose FC – Premiers with Names
1930 Melrose FC – H Suckling
MIDLANDS ASSN REP TEAM 1962=PETER HUDSON MIDDLE BACK ROW
ABOVE PHOTO COURTESY www.BeattiesStudios.com
MODEL JNR FOOTBALL TEAM PREMIERS 1903
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NEFU REP TEAM 1958 TAKEN AT YORK PARK
NEFU REP TEAM 1960
NORTH EAST FOOTBALL UNION -REP TEAM EARLY 60S -GEOFF LONG -MIDDLE FRONT ROW
NORTHEN TASMANIA STATE SCHOOL TEAMS
WELLINGTON SQUARE STATE SCHOOL FOOTBALL TEAM PREMIERS 1913
NORTH TAS SCHOOLBOYS AT TCA 1914
ABOVE PHOTO COURTESY www.BeattiesStudios.com
NORTH WEST U19S PREMIERS 1933 SSOBA
OHA 1934 -COURTESY BEATTIES PHOTO
OHA PREMIERS OLD SCHOLARS 1982
2008 OSFA Premiers – OHA Football Club
ABOVE PHOTO COURTESY www.BeattiesStudios.com
OLD LAUNCESTONIANS 1960
Pioneer – Gladstone 1962 at Winnaleah = (Geoff Long CC. All Australian 1956 Carnival)
PIONEER GLADSTONE PREMIERS 1976
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1948 Parattah Football Team
1970s PARK BEACH SURFERS FOOTBALL TEAM -a forerunner to dodges ferry fc
Early 1970’s football match at Port Arthur
PREMAYDENA FC GRAND FINAL 1991
PREMAYDENA 1991 GF
PREMAYDENA GF 1991
PREMAYDENA GF 1991
PREMAYDENA GF 1991
PRIMROSE FOOTBALL CLUB PREMIERS 1898
PYENGANA
PYENGANA =2016 EAST COAST SWANS v WINNALEAH
EAST COAST SWANS -ORIGINAL PYENGANA JUMPER COLOURS
EAST COAST SWANS
PYENGANA MAY 7 2022-EAST COAST SWANS IN OLD ST MARYS TIGERS COLOURS
BACK TO PYENGANA DAY 13 APRIL 2024
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RAILWAY FOOTBALL CLUB HBT BARRY TICH EDWARDS CC MIDDLE FRONT ROW
RAILWAY FOOTBALL CLUB
RINGAROOMA FOOTBALL CLUB HISTORICAL BELL
RINGAROOMA FOOTBALL CLUB PREMIERS 1991
NORTH EAST ADVERTISER 10-4-24
PYENGANA 13-4-24
EAST COAST SWANS V PERTH
(SWANS PLAYING IN RINGAROOMA JUMPERS )
ROSEVEARS FOOTBALL CLUB 1964?- MAURIE DAVIS -with ball -DON JARMAN mid row 3rd from right- COLIN WHEATLEY -bottom left -MAX HEFFORD -2nd right back row .
PETER RIEWOLDT- 2ND RIGHT MID ROW
Risdon Vale Tigers – 1960ʻs
ROSEBERY MINES FOOTBALL 1937
ROSS EARLY 80s ?
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1960ʻs
SORELL PREMIERS SOUTH COUNTRY PREMIERS 1904
1904 GRAND FINAL SORELL and NEW NORFOLK
ABOVE PHOTO COURTESY www.BeattiesStudios.com
SOUTH EAST FC 1935 -SSOBA
SOUTH EAST 1942 IN DONATED CANANORE JUMPERS =GEOFF FRIER MIDDLE MID ROW =SSOBA ASSN
GEOFF FRIER -SOUTH EAST -PLAYING IN THE DONATED MACALBURN JUMPER =IN 1942 GEOFF WAS THE SSOBA B/F
SOUTH EAST FC- FUND RAISER HOBART REGATTA YEAR ?
from left to right REG COLE JACK PRARIE UNKNOWN TERRY HAWKES BEN MCGUIRE ARTY WARD NEIL EISZELE KEITH MASON DAVID EISZELE
1954 Southern Amateurs Team
SOUTH ESK FOOTBALL CLUB 1905
Spreyton Seniors 1973 at Railton.
Back L to R. M Belbin, G Von Schill, B Walton, P Holden, T Sheehan, R Miles,
G Sheehan, W Saville, J Martin, .. Roberts.
Front L to R. J Dell, G Holland, B Murfett, G Oliver, W Clarke, T Page,
D Hanson, C Sienesi, W Walton. Mascot Dean Von Schill
STATE SCHOOL OLD BOYS ASSN REP TEAM 1943
STANDFAST JNR 1913 PREMIERS
1982-played at north hobart on a sunday
ROBERT SIMPSON -FINGAL ASSN BF 1978- ST HELLENS CLUB PLAYER
St Helens FC – Premiership Coach John Thurley
THURLS BIG MARK AGAINST ST MARYS
St Helens School Footy Team – York Park early 2000 coach Robert McIntyre
2002
David McIntyre back row left Luke Matheson far right
ST HELENS U16S 2004 at BRANXHOLM
2007 St Helens FC Seniors (L) & Reserves (R)
John “Bluey” Salter (St Helens) Laurie & Janet Storan (Cygnet) (Played in the 1940’s & 50’s)
(St Helens Gate attendents)
Alan “Chopsy” Salter & Lance Lohrey
EAST COAST SWANS FOOTBALL CLUB 2021
EAST COAST SWANS FOOTBALL CLUB PYENGANA 2019
above appeared in ST Helens Coastal Column 15 august 2023 -re recent function at swans social clubrooms
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1958 FINGAL ASSN REP TEAM
ST MARYS RESERVES 1990
ABOVE PHOTO COURTESY www.BeattiesStudios.com
ST VIRGILS U 14s PREMIERS 1963 NOEL LEARY CAPT
ST VIRGILS INTRA CLUB PRACTICE MATCH 1967
ST VIRGILS SCHOOL TEAM -LATE 60s- PHIL MORGAN -LEFT END THIRD ROW -PETER COLRAIN 2ND LEFT 2ND ROW- STEVE COSGROVE 3RD LEFT 2ND ROW-DAVID CHARLESWORTH RIGHT END FRONT ROW
ST VIRGILS THOUGHT TO BE 77 IN A FINALS GAME
ST VIRGILS AT CLAREMONT 1980?
SWANSEA 1ST PREMIERSHIP FINGAL ASSN 1966
SWANSEA PREMIERS 1966 50 YEAR REUNION
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TASMAN FOOTBALL CLUB -PROGRAM FOR 2ND GAME OF 1984 SEASON
TASMAN FOOTBALL CLUB -PROGRAM 11 MAY 1985
TASMAN FOOTBALL CLUB PROGRAM 25 MAY 1985
TASMAN FOOTBALL CLUB PROGRAM 22 JUNE 1985
TASMAN FOOTBALL CLUB PROGRAM 20 JULY 1985
TUNBRIDGE FOOTBALL CLUB 1886
TUNBRIDGE FOOTBALL OVAL 2018
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Tasmanian University Football Club
TAS UNI FC MID 70S ?
TATTERSALS FOOTBALL TEAM 1909
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WALCH,S FOOTBALL CLUB 1908
1923 Waterside Workers Football Team
Jobi Watts (St Helens)
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