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    1979 Perth State of Origin Carnival was the 20th Australian National Football Carnival, an Australian football competition. It was the first carnival...
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    full interstate carnival under state-of-origin selection was held with success in October 1979 in Perth. A second carnival was held the following October...
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  • Ian Marsh (footballer) (category Tasmanian State of Origin players)
    Launceston and represented Tasmania at the 1979 Perth State of Origin Carnival. "Bombers mourn passing of Marsh". essendonfc.com.au. Retrieved 29 May...
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  • Warren Roper (footballer) (category West Perth Football Club players)
    captain-coached Coragulac in country Victoria and was coach of Queensland at the 1979 Perth State of Origin Carnival. "The SWDFL Aussie Ruler" (PDF). NSW Football History...
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  • Tony Pickett (category Tasmanian State of Origin players)
    Collingwood at Princes Park, kicking four goals. At the 1979 Perth State of Origin Carnival, Pickett was a Tasmanian representative. Pickett left the...
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  • Peter Moore (Australian rules footballer) (category Victorian State of Origin players)
    losing Grand Final teams of 1977, 1979, 1980 and 1981. At the 1979 Perth State of Origin Carnival he was named in the All-Australian team. After his VFL career...
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  • David Cloke (category Victorian State of Origin players)
    Australian selection after representing Victoria at the Perth State of Origin Carnival of 1979. In 1992, post his VFL/AFL career, he joined Ainslie Football...
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  • Greg Towns (category Tasmanian State of Origin players)
    Tasmanian, originally from Cooee, Towns represented his state in the 1979 Perth State of Origin Carnival. Greg Towns would later play with Williamstown in the...
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    2018. "Holden State of Origin". Optus Stadium. 17 July 2018. Retrieved 17 July 2018. "Perth's Optus Stadium to host second State of Origin game in 2022"...
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  • Peter Spencer (footballer) (category Western Australian State of Origin players)
    fairest at East Perth), winning the award in 1975, 1976 and 1984. He played for Western Australia in the 1979 Perth State of Origin Carnival, before moving...
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  • Kevin Delmenico (category Australian rules footballers from Victoria (state))
    Queanbeyan. He coached the ACT at the 1979 Perth State of Origin Carnival. In 1991 Delmenico was elected unopposed as president of the ACTAFL, succeeding Allan...
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  • Des James (category Tasmanian State of Origin players)
    James, a back pocket, is noted his performances at the 1979 Perth State of Origin Carnival, which earned him a spot in the All-Australian team. An Indigenous...
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  • Jim Sewell (category Western Australian State of Origin players)
    1977 State of Origin game and the 1979 Perth State of Origin Carnival. Following his retirement from football, Sewell served as the Football Manager of the...
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  • Barry Cable (category Western Australian State of Origin players)
    a total of 20 matches during his playing career, Cable also coached the team at the 1979 State of Origin Carnival, later being named coach of the All-Australian...
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  • Mike Fitzpatrick (footballer) (category Western Australian State of Origin players)
    Australia became less frequent. He returned to the state team for the 1979 Perth State of Origin Carnival (after five years' absence), and made an additional...
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  • Bruce Lindsay (footballer) (category South Australian State of Origin players)
    the 1979 Perth State of Origin Carnival and nine times in all. He also captained the Australia international rules football team in their 1987 tour of Ireland...
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  • from 1948 until 1993, including State of Origin matches from 1977 until 1993 (this did not include National Carnival matches), to the best Western Australian...
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    Australian rules football in Queensland (category Australian rules football by state or territory)
    States Carnival taking its first Section 2 title. It was not to reappear in the national carnival until the 1979 Perth State of Origin Carnival when it...
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    Adelaide State of Origin Carnival was the 21st Australian National Football Carnival, an Australian football competition. It was just the second carnival to...
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  • (Monday, 18 June 1979) Victoria 26.21 (177) v Tasmania 8.14 (62) – Att: 12,197 at North Hobart Oval See: 1979 Perth State of Origin Carnival Section One Qualifying...
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  • on to play 88 games for the club. In 1979 he represented Queensland again, at the Perth State of Origin Carnival. Townsend, John (24 May 2013). "Tigers...
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  • selected by representatives of the various state teams. This tradition continued at all subsequent interstate carnivals until 1988. In 1991, following...
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  • Peter Hamilton (footballer, born 1956) (category Tasmanian State of Origin players)
    In the same year, he was a Tasmanian representative at the Perth State of Origin Carnival, having played at North West Football Union club Ulverstone...
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  • Kevin Bryant (category Western Australian State of Origin players)
    Australia at the Perth State of Origin Carnival. Bryant later served as West Coast's player match-up coordinator. Bryant is the father-in-law of former West...
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    Polly Farmer (category East Perth Football Club players)
    East Perth from 1976 to 1977 with some success and he coached the first Western Australian state of origin team in 1977. Farmer was sacked as coach of East...
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    ground hosted numerous intrastate, interstate and state of origin clashes in its history. Some of the most memorable are Tasmania's triumph over Western...
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    Australian rules football in Western Australia (category Australian rules football by state or territory)
    state and territory. They were declared national men's champions in 1921, 1961 and 1979 and was the most successful state during the State of Origin era...
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  • Gary Malarkey (category Western Australian State of Origin players)
    a regular WA state of origin representative whilst at Geelong and gained all Australian selection after the 1979 State of Origin carnival. He was named...
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  • Peter Jonas (footballer) (category South Australian State of Origin players)
    and fairest in 1979 and represented South Australia in the Perth State of Origin Carnival that year. For his performances at the carnival he was selected...
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  • Maurice Rioli (category Western Australian State of Origin players)
    Bicentennial Carnival. Rioli played in the 1989 WAFL Grand Final, but South Fremantle went down to Claremont. In 1990, he finished as a player in Perth after...
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