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Joined 19th Dec 2017

Last seen 19th Dec 2017

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About Me

I am researching the football odyssey of my great-grandfather (Alf Trevillian 1902-03, 1906 StKilda), who played in several teams in the Ovens Murray League in NE Vic 1894-1901, then VFL StKilda 1902-03, WA Goldfields comp with Kanowna in 1904 before played the second half of the 1904 season with Perth in WAFA. Played 1905 WAFA season with West Perth (premiers). 1906 back to VFL St.Kilda, then 1907 VFA with Prahran and finished in the Vic Wednesday League with StKilda Trades in 1908. I am on my 3rd draft (140 pages in).... I am trying wherever possible to personalise Alf's football journey (work, social life, accommodation etc), but it presents some challenges. Grateful to receive refs about player diaries or personal accounts from the early days

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Favourite Moment

1905 tied WAFA grand final replay between W Perth and E Freo - story about a West Perth spectator grabbing the ball when kicked out of play and hid with it in the toilet of a local pub (to wind down the clock at the end when WP were in front - there were no free kicks in 1905 intentional out of bounds, and they played with a "running clock")

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