EASTS beat Easts, but Wests won the game—and the premiership. That is the paradoxical indictment of Easts when Wests beat the "Tigers" 9-6 in the last Brisbane Rugby League competition game for 1948. If ever a match was murdered in hot blood his was surely the all-time classic case. Easts had enough ball (Green won scrums ...
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Article : 257 wordsCLAYFIELD members yesterday gave Bill Matthews a great welcome on the occasion of his 90th ...
Article : 182 wordsIPSWICH completely outplayed Brisbane in the first-half of yesterday's Kruger Cup game at Lanham Park, and it was four-up at "lemons" in their favor. The cup finally went to Ipswich, 5-4. ...
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Article : 257 wordsThe shooting-star speed of men like Callinan and Stanton of Easts; the swift seizing of openings by Hunt, Lynn, Irwin and Melrose of Wests—this was football at its finest, its fiercest its fastest. ...
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Advertising : 25 wordsBROAD of heart and stature—that was the way Eddie Broad figured for G.F.S. in their win, 17-10, over Varsity in the main Union match at Gregory Terrace Oval yesterday. Ed. carried Jeeps ...
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Article : 178 wordsInterested visitor at the Australian Rules match at Windsor Park yesterday was C. K. Dellmursh, who has ...
Article : 141 wordsTHEY came, they scored, and they conquered two Brisbane school teams. "Rockie" five-stone and ...
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Truth (Brisbane, Qld. : 1900 - 1954), Sun 15 Aug 1948, Page 12
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