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The Sandgropers
The Western Australia Australian rules football team is the state representative side of Western Australia in the sport of Australian rules football. Western Australia has a proud history in interstate football, having a successful historical record and winning three Australian Championships and a State of Origin Carnival Championship, in the State of Origin era. While the senior team no longer plays, it continues to contest the underage men's (5 division 1 titles) and underage women's championships. Western Australia has a long and intense rivalry with Victoria. The 1986 game between Western Australia and Victoria is "regarded by many people as one of the greatest games – not just in State of Origin – but in the 150 years of Australian Football". The team has been known as the "Black Swans" after the Black swan which is the state symbol emblazoned on their guernsey; however, they are more popularly known by their rivals as the " Sandgropers" after the West Australian ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sandgroper (insect)
Sandgropers are wholly wiktionary:Subterranean, subterranean aptery, apterous insects of the family Cylindrachetidae that may grow up to 7 cm (3 in) long. Three genera of these orthopterans are currently recognised: ''Cylindracheta'', ''Cylindraustralia'' and ''Cylindroryctes''. Like many subterranean animals, little is known about their habits and diet, but Western Australian farmers have blamed them for substantial crop losses. Sandgropers were once thought to be degenerate mole crickets, but they are now known to be more closely related to Tridactylidae, pygmy mole crickets, in the Caelifera, which includes grasshoppers. Although widely believed to be herbivorous, some have been found with animal remains in their gut. Range *Australia: **''Cylindracheta'' is found only in the Northern Territory **''Cylindraustralia'' widely except in the south-east and Tasmania ***six species have been recorded in Western Australia of which five are believed to be endemic to that st ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1911 Adelaide Carnival
The 1911 Adelaide Carnival was the second edition of the Australasian Football Carnival, an Australian football Australian states and territories, interstate competition. It took place from 2 to 12 August at Adelaide Oval. A crowd of 20,000 witnessed South Australia convincingly defeat Victoria in the final to win the championship. Organisation Home state South Australia Australian rules football team, South Australia was joined by teams representing Victoria Australian rules football team, Victoria, Western Australia Australian rules football team, Western Australia, Tasmania Australian rules football team, Tasmania and New South Wales Australian rules football team, New South Wales. Two teams which had competed in the 1908 Melbourne Carnival – Queensland Australian rules football team, Queensland and New Zealand national Australian rules football team, New Zealand – did not send teams in 1911. The five teams competed in a single division, each playing the others once. Th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1966 Hobart Carnival
The 1966 Hobart Carnival was the 16th edition of the Australian National Football Carnival, an Australian football interstate competition. It was the final time that Tasmania hosted a carnival. It was competed by two Victorian sides, one from the Victorian Football League (VFL) and another from the Victorian Football Association (VFA), as well as South Australia, Western Australia and the home state Tasmania. The VFL topped the ladder as the only undefeated team and Peter Hudson was the leading goal-kicker with 20 goals. Squads Victoria (VFL) WA SA TAS Victoria (VFA) Results: Opening Day Match One (Thursday, 9 June 1966) * Western Australia: 3.10 (28) , 11.12 (78) , 20.14 (134) , 26.18 (174) * Victoria (VFA): 1.0 (6) , 2.2 (14) , 4.5 (29) , 5.11 (41) Attendance: 20,047 at North Hobart Oval (Double header) Match Two (Thursday, 9 June 1966) * Victoria (VFL): 5.6 (36) , 12.13 (85) , 21.21 (147) , 26.24 (180) * Tasmania: 4.1 (25) , 7.2 (44) , 10.4 (64) , 1 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1958 Melbourne Carnival
The 1958 Melbourne Carnival was the 14th edition of the Australian National Football Carnival, an Australian football interstate competition. It was the last carnival to be hosted by the state of Victoria and was also known as the Centenary Carnival as it celebrated 100 years since the creation of the sport. For the first time since the 1950 Brisbane Carnival, all nine eligible teams in both Section 1 and Section 2 competed at the carnival. Section 1 consisted of two Victorian teams from the (VFL and VFA), South Australia, Western Australia and Tasmania; Section 2 consisted of New South Wales, Canberra, Queensland and the Australian Amateurs. In 1953 and 1956, only the Section 1 teams had travelled for the carnival, but the ANFC decided to bring all nine teams to mark the centenary celebration. Prior to the carnival, the ANFC announced that Section 1 was to be reduced from five teams to four teams for the following carnival (held Brisbane in 1961); the team which finished last ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1956 Perth Carnival
The 1956 Perth Carnival was the 13th edition of the Australian National Football Carnival, an Australian football interstate competition. It took place from 11 to 23 June at Subiaco Oval, Perth. Five teams automatically qualified for the carnival as a result of their finishing positions at the 1953 Adelaide Carnival: two Victorian teams Victoria (VFL) and Victoria (VFA), the hosts Western Australia, South Australia &. Tasmania, which had finished last at the 1953 Carnival, qualified only after defeating the winners of the lower division, the Australian Amateurs, in a playoff at North Hobart Oval on 10 July 1954, by the score of 16.21 (117) to 9.10 (64). Victoria finished the fortnight unbeaten while Tasmania equaled their best performance ever by finishing third. Results All-Australian team In 1956 the All-Australian The All-Australian team is an all-star team of Australian rules football in Australia, Australian rules footballers, selected by a panel at the end of ea ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1953 Adelaide Carnival
The 1953 Adelaide Carnival was the 12th edition of the Australian National Football Carnival, an Australian football interstate competition. It took place from 8 to 18 July at Adelaide Oval. Home state South Australia was joined by the two Victorian teams Victoria (VFL) & Victoria (VFA), as well as Western Australia, Tasmania. Victoria (VFL) was the best performed side, finishing the carnival unbeaten. A crowd of 52,632, then a record for an interstate game, attended the game between South Australian and Victoria which would decide the championship. South Australia, even though they had accounted for Victoria as recently as 1952, were no match on this occasion for their Victorian opponents and lost by 99 points. The VFA team performed admirably, defeating Tasmania and getting within 18 points of Western Australia and 33 points of Victoria. Tasmania finished the carnival winless and had to play-off against the Australian Amateurs team in order to re-qualify as an elite team c ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1950 Brisbane Carnival
The 1950 Brisbane Carnival was the 11th edition of the Australian National Football Carnival, an Australian football interstate The Dwight D. Eisenhower National System of Interstate and Defense Highways, commonly known as the Interstate Highway System, or the Eisenhower Interstate System, is a network of controlled-access highways that forms part of the National H ... competition. It was the first carnival to be hosted in Queensland and with the ANFC spending more than £15,000 as part of a major effort to promote the code in the state. Rain was a constant throughout the carnival and as a result most games were held on a soggy Brisbane Exhibition Ground. Several of the matches were played at night using a white ball. Section A consisted of the usual big three teams, Victoria, South Australia and Western Australia. The Tasmanian team joined them, having qualified through winning Section B of the 1947 Carnival and a team representing the VFA competed in the top section f ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1947 Hobart Carnival
The 1947 Hobart Carnival was the tenth edition of the Australian National Football Carnival, an Australian football interstate competition. It was held from the July 30 to August 9 and was the second time (first being 1924) to be held in Hobart with North Hobart Oval once again being the host stadium throughout the carnival. The carnival was expanded to seven teams from the three that played in the previous edition which meant for the first time since 1908, the competition saw two sections. Section A being South Australia, VFL and Western Australia while Tasmania, New South Wales, Queensland and Canberra took part in Section B. Western Australia caused an upset with a 4-point win over the VFL, the first time the Victorians had lost at a carnival since 1921. The VFL however claimed the Championship on percentage after easily accounting for South Australia by 76 points. Tasmania topped the Section B ladder to gain promotion to the top flight in the 1950 Brisbane Carnival. Summar ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1937 Perth Carnival
The 1937 Perth Carnival was the ninth edition of the Australian National Football Carnival, an Australian football interstate competition. Overview Just like in the Perth Carnival of 1921 only South Australia and Victoria took a team to Western Australia. Only one of the games was a blowout, with Western Australia handing South Australia their worst ever carnival loss, in a 116-point win. George Doig kicked seven goals for the home side. In the second game, South Australia came close to upsetting Victoria and got within two points at the final siren. The last four scoring shots of the game were all behinds to South Australia inside the final two minutes of the game. The final game of the carnival would decide the overall winner and after going into the game as underdogs Victoria hung on against Western Australia at Subiaco Oval to win by eight points. The win was thanks largely to Victorian full-back Jack Regan restricting Doig to just three goals. Other Victorian stars who t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1933 Sydney Carnival
The 1933 Sydney Carnival was the eighth edition of the Australian National Football Carnival, an Australian football interstate competition. The carnival was held in Sydney over an eleven-day period between Wednesday 2 August and Saturday 12 August. During the competition, Queensland broke a 20-game carnival losing streak when they accounted for Canberra by 42 points. The Canberrans were competing in their inaugural Australian National Football Carnival. New South Wales were the better of the weaker set of teams, defeating each of Tasmania, Canberra and Queensland. Once more, South Australian and Western Australia outfits were no match for Victoria. During the carnival, Australian rules football officials entered a conference with New South Wales Rugby League officials with the view to developing a hybrid between the two sports, known as universal football. A trial match featuring members of the Queensland team was held in private on Friday 11 August, but nothing further ca ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1930 Adelaide Carnival
The 1930 Adelaide Carnival was the seventh edition of the Australian National Football Carnival, an Australian football interstate competition. It was held from 30 July to 9 August and was the second carnival to be hosted by the South Australia city of Adelaide. All six states contested the carnival, which was staged as a full round-robin amongst the states. All fifteen matches were played at Adelaide Oval. For the third consecutive time, the carnival was won by Victoria, which was undefeated. South Australia, whose sole loss came against Victoria in the final match of the carnival, came second. Western Australia was third and New South Wales was fourth, after the former narrowly defeated the latter in the latter's final game – New South Wales' strong performances were considered the surprise of the tournament, and were put down to the inclusion for the first time in many years of Broken Hill-based players in the team. Queensland finished last, and was winless for the fourth tim ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1927 Melbourne Carnival
The 1927 Melbourne Carnival was the sixth Australian National Football Carnival: an Australian football interstate competition. New South Wales caused the biggest upset of the carnival when they defeated Tasmania by three points and, also, came close to beating Western Australia. Victoria again finished on top of the table. Participating teams Queensland Queensland did not send a team to the Carnival. Victoria's two-teams controversy Victoria caused a controversy when it played a second eighteen in a match against a weaker state (i.e., against NSW, on 19 August 1927: see below) in order to keep its first eighteen fresh for the final match of the carnival, when it was to play against Western Australia. Consequently, on 19 August 1927, the Australian National Football Council — on the grounds that, "it was an unfair advantage for the home team to choose from 200 players when the Visiting team had only 23 to 25 to pick from" — unanimously adopted a new rule for future carniva ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
