The first known football club in Australia was organised by a school teacher called W.J. Fletcher in Parramatta in 1880. He called them the "Wanderers". Another club soon followed at Kings School and fixtures between the two were quickly arranged.
This challenge to the egg chasing code became very popular in Sydney, but also in the coal mining areas of Newcastle and the Illawarra.
No doubt there were gangs of migrant Scots coal miners hanging around the train station in those days too.
Here are a few of them from South Bulli. Young looking blighters with "black" faces.
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