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    The 1908 Melbourne Carnival was the inaugural Australian National Football Carnival, an Australian football interstate competition, held in Melbourne in...
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    A riot ensued. A ten-day Carnival, the "Jubilee of Australasian Football (1858–1908)" was held in Melbourne in August 1908, involving teams from New...
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    competed internationally in 1888 and participated in the 1908 Jubilee Australasian Football Carnival. Since the 1970s it has regularly toured Australia and...
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    following year he represented the VFL at the 1908 Melbourne Carnival. Once his time at South Melbourne came to an end he signed with Sturt in South Australia...
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    Football Association) in Tasmania. He represented the state at the 1908 Melbourne Carnival and that year also won the LDFA "best all round player" award....
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  • League (VFL). Stewart also played for the Victorian team at the 1908 Melbourne Carnival, replacing an injured player. He played his last VFL game in a...
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  • the 1908 Melbourne Carnival and South Australia at the 1911 Adelaide Carnival. He died at Forestville, South Australia on 16 February 1937. 1908 Melbourne...
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    much more popular in New Zealand, with a team competing at the 1908 Melbourne Carnival. Participation dropped after World War I. The game was re-established...
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  • Jack Gardiner (category Melbourne Football Club players)
    representative team. He returned to the mainland to coach Tasmania at the 1908 Melbourne Carnival and stopped umpiring after that year. He resumed his playing career...
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  • the 1908 Melbourne Carnival, however he was not selected to play. While away, Bushell was recruited to Sturt by their secretary and he spent 1908 playing...
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    national governing body of any football code in Australia. The 1908 Melbourne Carnival was the first national representative competition involving all...
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    Flemington Racecourse in Melbourne, Australia on the last day of the Melbourne Cup Carnival, the Saturday after the Melbourne Cup. Total prize money is...
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  • flank. He was the vice-captain of the West Australian team at the 1908 Melbourne Carnival. He played his last WAFL game with West Perth in 1915—the WAFA...
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    Australia, though it successfully lobbied to send a side to the 1908 carnival held in Melbourne to celebrate 50 years of Australian Football, defeating both...
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    the 1908 Melbourne Carnival, withdrew from the 1911 Adelaide Carnival through injury and represented the state once more at the 1914 Sydney Carnivals. Robinson...
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  • Tasmania and New South Wales. Two teams which had competed in the 1908 Melbourne Carnival – Queensland and New Zealand – did not send teams in 1911. The...
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  • and 1907 premiership sides. An interstate representative at the 1908 Melbourne Carnival, Townsend had one of his best league seasons in 1909 when he topped...
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    Tom Wright (Australian footballer) (category Military personnel from Melbourne)
    captain of the New Zealand team that competed in the 1908 Melbourne Jubilee Australasian Football Carnival, and was one of that team's best players. He finished...
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    Bill Luff Sr. (category Australian rules footballers from Melbourne)
    Football Club, in the Metropolitan Amateur Football Association. 1908 Melbourne Carnival Holmesby & Main (2014), p.531. Deaths: Luff, The Age, (Wednesday...
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    Bob Boyle (footballer) (category Australian rules footballers from Melbourne)
    umpires at the 1908 Melbourne Carnival. Holmesby, Russell and Main, Jim (2007). The Encyclopedia of AFL Footballers. 7th ed. Melbourne: Bas Publishing...
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    Hugh Purse (category Australian rules footballers from Melbourne)
    1908 Melbourne Carnival and was also club captain of Melbourne that year. Purse returned to Brighton, as captain, in 1910, but came back to Melbourne...
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    Club's Hall of Fame. He died at Carlton, Victoria on 5 June 1928. 1908 Melbourne Carnival Death: Bruce, The (Adelaide) Express and Telegraph, (Wednesday...
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    1908 Melbourne Carnival – 0 wins 1914 Sydney Carnival – 0 wins 1924 Hobart Carnival – 0 wins 1930 Adelaide Carnival – 0 wins 1933 Sydney Carnival –...
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    goals. He played for South Australia at the 1908 Jubilee Australasian Football Carnival held in Melbourne. His younger brother, Frederick Neill Le Messurier...
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    Broken Hill; and, from there, represented New South Wales in the 1908 Melbourne Carnival. In 1910 he moved to Fitzroy in the Victorian Football League where...
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  • horse-racing Melbourne Spring Racing Carnival List of Melbourne Cup placings "Flemington Racecourse | Flemington Track Map | Melbourne Cup 2017". www...
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    Junction. In 1908 the WAFA was renamed the West Australian Football League (WAFL). West Australia sent a team to the 1908 Melbourne Carnival, over half...
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  • inter-state touring team included seven GFL players, and half of the 1908 Melbourne Carnival team were GFL players, including the captain Billy Trewhella. Former...
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    colonies. Though it was given permission to send a side to the 1908 Melbourne Carnival (which defeated Queensland and New South Wales) the AFC never fielded...
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    Victoria was established by the time an interstate carnival was held for the first time – in Melbourne in 1908 – to celebrate the Golden Jubilee of "Australasian...
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