125 year old football club badge

[tinpan]

Hi all, i see an ozzie is playing in the super bowl Ben Graham.He started playing football in ozzie rules and played until he went to the states to play NFL.Best at both games

History Australian rules football started over a 150 years ago and is a modified version of Irish Galic football.Won,t go into all the rules as that will take a month.

Last nite after work i went to an old oval that was first used for sport during the early gold rush days.Not being much flat land around as the larger part was being mined The locals decided to use a creek flat and used horse drays to bring in fill too make area big enough to use.By the end of 1869 the oval was finished.A few years later a local football club started using the ground to play football.this went on till the end of WW1. So few young men came home from the war the club was closed and the oval was left unused for nearly 70 years.

I spent about 3 hours and only came away with this early local enamal football club badge.Found just below where the old drop pit out house once stood.


tinpan

 

[superficialbob]

WOW WTG. HH

 

[shaun7]

thats a nice find

i didn't think there were any rules to aussie football, other than no eye gouging

 

[tomted62]

Very nice find!!

 

[SHERMANVILLE ILLINOIS]

tinpan,
very nice find on that badge.

Your statement:
"So few young men came home from the war
the club was closed"
Very interesting bit of history, bit sad.

Thanks for posting.

have a good un...
SHEWRMANVILLE

 

[txkickergirl]

you are finding some real interesting stuff lately.

What a place that must of been back then.

 

[crazyjarhead]

Nice find, Tinpan

 

[seger98]

Nice pin tinpan, your finds keep amazing me!


Chris

 

[Bavaria Mike]

Nice find! You surely do the research and reap the rewards. HH, Mike

 

[lazyaussie]

sweet find tinpan

 

[tinpan]

you are finding some real interesting stuff lately.

What a place that must of been back then.

with 5000 hard rock gold mines in 26 square miles that produced 30 million onces of gold from 1851 till 1925 1925-1954 700 mines for 6 million ozes There is still a 500 million dollar mine that mines gold under the city of 100,00 About 600 yards below houses. Uses a decline and they drive 50 tonn trucks 3 miles underground.Their only chasing ghosts of the past

tinpan

 

[kdismuke1]

super.

 

[hikermike]

Sweet find!!
mike

 

[Mona Lisa]

Thanks for the history lesson. Cool find. 8)

 

[nebstater]

Now that is one interesting find. Old sports pins are always nice. WTG