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Bo Morton
Parker Thomas "Bo" Morton (2 November 1911 – 3 September 1995) was an Australian rules footballer, coach and administrator for the Sturt Football Club in the South Australian National Football League (SANFL). In 1981 the Sturt Football Club honoured Morton by naming the award for the club's best and fairest player the P. T. Morton Medal. On 26 January 1983, Morton was awarded the Order of Australia, Medal of the Order of Australia for services to sport in the fields of Australian rules football and golf. Player Morton made his league debut on 26 April 1930 and impressed immediately with his positional play as a half-forward. Morton finished his debut season as Sturt's leading goalkicker and eighth overall in the league with 37 goals. He followed up in 1931 to again lead Sturt's goalkicking with 77 goals (third in the league). Morton particularly impressed in a game against Glenelg Football Club, Glenelg where he kicked eight goals, including three goals in three minutes ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Adelaide
Adelaide ( , ; ) is the list of Australian capital cities, capital and most populous city of South Australia, as well as the list of cities in Australia by population, fifth-most populous city in Australia. The name "Adelaide" may refer to either Greater Adelaide (including the Adelaide Hills) or the Adelaide city centre; the demonym ''Adelaidean'' is used to denote the city and the residents of Adelaide. The Native title in Australia#Traditional owner, traditional owners of the Adelaide region are the Kaurna, with the name referring to the area of the city centre and surrounding Adelaide Park Lands, Park Lands, in the Kaurna language. Adelaide is situated on the Adelaide Plains north of the Fleurieu Peninsula, between the Gulf St Vincent in the west and the Mount Lofty Ranges in the east. Its metropolitan area extends from the coast to the Adelaide Hills, foothills of the Mount Lofty Ranges, and stretches from Gawler in the north to Sellicks Beach in the south. Named in ho ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Walter Scott (Australian Footballer)
Walter "Wacka" or "Wat" Scott (2 September 1899 – 27 July 1989) was an Australian rules footballer who represented in the South Australian National Football League (SANFL) during the early 20th century. Scott was a high marking defender who had a large influence during a very successful part of the Norwood Football Club's history. Early life Scott was born in Stirling, South Australia and played his early football with an inflated pig's bladder at school. He took his first job at the age of 13 as an apprentice electrician with the company Morrison and Gwynne. The three senior partners, J. Morrison, G. C. Gwynne and Algie Millhouse, all played for , and Millhouse had captained the club in 1914. Scott lived in the city during this time, but returned home during the weekends, during which he played for Stirling in the Hills Association until 1919. Football career His high marking and sound defensive skills immediately drew praise and in his first season he won his new club's ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sturt Football Club Players
Sturt may refer to: * Sturt (surname) * Sturt (biology), a unit of measurement in embryology named for Alfred Sturtevant Places and things named after Charles Sturt, a British explorer of Australia, include: Australia * Sturt Highway, a national highway in New South Wales, Victoria, and South Australia. New South Wales * Sturt National Park, New South Wales * Charles Sturt University, a university in Wagga Wagga Queensland * Sturt, Queensland, a locality in the Shire of Boulia South Australia * Sturt, South Australia, a suburb of Adelaide *Sturt Football Club, an Australian Rules Football club * Sturt Cricket Club *Sturt River, Adelaide * Sturt Street, Adelaide *City of Charles Sturt, a city * Point Sturt, a town *Division of Sturt, a federal electoral district in South Australia *Electoral district of Sturt (New South Wales), former New South Wales Legislative Assembly electorate *Electoral district of Sturt (South Australia) Sturt (The Sturt until 1875) w ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1911 Births
Events January * January 1 – A decade after federation, the Northern Territory and the Australian Capital Territory are added to the Commonwealth of Australia. * January 3 ** 1911 Kebin earthquake: An earthquake of 7.7 Moment magnitude scale, moment magnitude strikes near Almaty in Russian Turkestan, killing 450 or more people. ** Siege of Sidney Street in London: Two Latvian people, Latvian anarchists die, after a seven-hour siege against a combined police and military force. Home Secretary Winston Churchill arrives to oversee events. * January 4 – Comparison of the Amundsen and Scott expeditions, Amundsen and Scott expeditions: Robert Falcon Scott's British Terra Nova Expedition, ''Terra Nova'' Expedition to the South Pole arrives in the Antarctic and establishes a base camp at Cape Evans on Ross Island. * January 5 – Egypt's Zamalek SC is founded as a general sports and Association football club by Belgian lawyer George Merzbach as Q ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Glenelg Golf Club
Glenelg Golf Club is a private golf club located in the Adelaide suburb of Novar Gardens, South Australia, Novar Gardens, also near the seaside suburb of Glenelg, South Australia, Glenelg. It is located adjacent the southern boundary of Adelaide Airport, Adelaide International Airport and within easy access of the Adelaide CBD. In January 2016 the course was ranked 25th among the top 100 Australian courses by ''Golf Australia Magazine''. The 18-hole golf course is a par 71 and measures 6,267 metres. It possesses couch grass fairways, bent grass greens, and revetted-edge style bunkering. It is reminiscent of the traditional Scottish links courses. Glenelg has played host to numerous state and national championships, including the Jacob's Creek Open Championship, South Australian Open. It also hosted the 1986 Australian Amateur and co-hosted qualifying for the 2004 Australian Amateur with Royal Adelaide Golf Club.Golf Australia Website - Australian Men's Amateur Championship Pa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Vic Richardson
Victor York "Yorker" Richardson (7 September 189430 October 1969), nicknamed The Guardsman, was a leading Australian sportsman of the 1920s and 1930s, captaining the Australia cricket team and the South Australia Australian rules football team, representing Australia in baseball and South Australia in golf, winning the South Australian state tennis title and also being a leading local player in lacrosse, basketball and swimming. Richardson won the South Australian National Football League's highest individual honour, the Magarey Medal, while captain-coach of Sturt in 1920. Early life and education Victor York Richardson was born on 7 September 1894 in Parkside, South Australia, the son of Valentine Yaxley Richardson, who worked as an accountant and painter and decorator, and Rebecca Mary Richardson (née Malloney). He grew up in the Unley area and attended Kyre (later Scotch) College. Naturally athletic, he played many sports, including gymnastics, basketball, cricket, bas ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sturt Cricket Club
The Sturt Cricket Club (formerly the Unley Cricket Club) is a semi-professional cricket club in Adelaide, South Australia. It competes in the South Australian Grade Cricket League, which is administered by the South Australian Cricket Association (SACA). The club entered the SACA competition in season 1897/98. The club has produced a number of prominent players including current players Mohammed Arhaan Tai, Cullen Bailey, Jason Borgas, Cameron Borgas, and Tom Moffat. The Blues play their senior home games at the Price Memorial Oval at Angas Road, Hawthorn, South Australia. C and D grade matches are played at the Unley Oval Unley Oval is a multi-use, community owned stadium in Unley, an inner southern suburb of Adelaide, South Australia. It is a popular community recreation oval and greenspace and is used for lower-grade South Australian Grade Cricket League mat .... External links SCC official siteSACA South Australian Grade Cricket clubs Cricket clubs establ ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
World Of Sport (Sydney, Australia TV Series)
''World of Sport'' was a sports program and talk show broadcast on TCN9 in Sydney in the 1960s and 1970s. It was hosted by Ron Casey. The main sport covered was Rugby league. The panelists included Frank Hyde (radio 2SM rugby league caller) and Peter Frilingos (''Daily Telegraph ''The Daily Telegraph'', known online and elsewhere as ''The Telegraph'', is a British daily broadsheet conservative newspaper published in London by Telegraph Media Group and distributed in the United Kingdom and internationally. It was foun ...'' rugby league writer). References 1960s Australian television series debuts 1970s Australian television series endings Australian sports television series Nine Network original programming Television shows set in Sydney Television articles with incorrect naming style {{Sport-tv-prog-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
NWS (TV Station)
NWS is an Australian television station based in Adelaide, Australia. It is owned-and-operated by the Nine Network. The station callsign, ''NWS'', is an initialism of The NeWs South Australia. History Origins NWS-9 was the first television broadcaster in Adelaide, beginning on 5 September 1959 from their Tynte Street studios. It was owned by Rupert Murdoch's News Limited (a subsidiary of his holding company News Corporation) through ''Southern Television Corporation Ltd'' who also owned city newspaper '' The News''. Popular programs produced in its early days included the live variety shows ''Adelaide Tonight'' and '' Hey Hey It's Saturday'' (on-location specials), science show '' The Curiosity Show'', '' The Country and Western Hour'', and children's shows '' Channel Niners'', '' C'mon Kids'', ''Here's Humphrey'' and ''Pick Your Face''. NWS also broadcast SANFL game matches from 1989 to 1992, earlier it had produced the first ever colour broadcast of that league's Grand Final ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
South Australian Football Budget
The ''South Australian Football Budget'' is the matchday programme of the South Australian National Football League (SANFL). History A publication known as the ''SA Football Budget'' was first produced in 1914 but was discontinued due to the onset of the First World War. After the return of competition the magazine returned as the ''SA Footballer'', later changing to the current name. The ''Budget'' is a 24-page publication. At its core are the lists of teams playing each weekend, along with player statistics and details of umpires. Contents include footballer profiles, action photography, columns, mini-league teams, premierships tables and various statistics. The regular cost of the magazine is $5. The magazine is owned by the South Australian National Football League (SANFL) and has been published by Boylen Media on behalf of the SANFL since 1994. The equivalent magazine for the Australian Football League (AFL) is the ''AFL Record,'' which was first produced in 1912. The ''Budg ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Annual General Meeting
An annual general meeting (AGM, also known as the annual meeting) is a meeting of the general membership of an organization. These organizations include membership associations and companies with shareholders. These meetings may be required by law or by the constitution, charter, or by-laws governing the body. The meetings are held to conduct business on behalf of the organization or company. Purpose An organization may conduct its business at the annual general meeting. The business may include electing a board of directors, making important decisions regarding the organization, and informing the members of previous and future activities. At this meeting, the shareholders and partners may receive copies of the company's accounts, review fiscal information for the past year, and ask any questions regarding the directions the business will take in the future. At the annual general meeting, the president or chairman of the organization presides over the meeting and may gi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1946 SANFL Season
The 1946 South Australian National Football League season was the 67th season of the top-level Australian rules football competition in South Australia. Ladder Finals series Grand Final References SANFL The South Australian National Football League, or SANFL ( or ''S-A-N-F-L''), is an Australian rules football league based in the Australian state of South Australia. It is also the state's sports governing body, governing body for the sport. ... South Australian National Football League seasons {{AFL-competition-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
