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TASMANIAN FOOTBALL MILESTONESJohn Stoward has compiled a list of significant dates in Tasmanian football.1879 - The first organised senior football competition in Tasmania began called the Tasmanian Football association based in Hobart. 1881 - The first inter-colonial match was played in Tasmania between VFA club Hotham and the Launceston Football Club. 1883 - This year saw the introduction of four quarters of 25 minutes instead of two halves. 1884 - The signalling of goals and behinds with flags was first introduced into Australian football by the Tasmanian Football Association. 1887 - The first Tasmanian representative team visited Victoria. the carried numbers on their jumpers, the first time this was done in Australia. 1895 - The year of the first experiment with boundary umpires in a game between Senior (20) and Junior (25) at the Risdon ground. 1897 - An eighteen man team was introduced in lieu of twenty one previously used. Behinds were now included in the total score. 1904 - Boundary umpires became a permanent part of the game. 1908 - Numbers on jumpers were adopted by the Tasmanian Football League. 1914 - The introduction of the first football programme - "The Monotone". 1924 - The first Australian Football Council Carnival held in the state took place at North Hobart Oval. 1927 - On the 2nd of may, North Hobart played Cananore at North Hobart Oval under lights which were strung across the oval. 2000 attended resulting in a gate of $170. 1929 - On Saturday the 10th of August boundary umpires used whistles for the first time in game at Queenstown between Smelters and City. 1930 - The introduction of the 19th man. 1931 - On the 9th of May the first official radio broadcast of a TFL game took place with a match between North Hobart and Lefroy at North Hobart Oval being broadcast on 7HO. 1946 - The introduction of the 20th man. 1978 - The introduction of the reserves and the two umpire system begins. 1987 - The inaugural year of the Statewide league. 1996 - Four boundary umpires were used in a game on the 20th July between Clarence and Burnie Dockers at Bellerive Oval. 1998 - First use of three interchange players being used on May 23rd.
The 1923 Win over South Australia Prior to the famous defeat of the mighty Vics at York Park in 1960, arguably the finest moment in Tasmanian football history came at Adelaide Oval in 1923 when a South Australian 'next best' combination was overwhelmed by 32 points in front of 25,000 of its own supporters. The team of Tasmanians responsible for inflicting the 14.14 (98) to 9.12 (66) defeat were drawn exclusively from the 4 Hobart-based TFL clubs of Cananore, Lefroy, New Town and North Hobart, and so, in the strictest sense, given that there were no northern representatives, it was not a bona fide Tasmanian state team. Not that this would have made the bitter pill of defeat any easier to swallow for the
croweaters, whose pain would have been exacerbated still further by the realisation that their demise had been masterminded - and, to a large extent, effected - by former Sturt player Bill Mayman. Originally from Kalgoorlie, Mayman had captained Sturt to its first 2 League premierships in 1915 and 1919, and was now captaining fledgling TFL club New Town. Having left Sturt in somewhat acrimonious circumstances his performance against South Australia may well have been fuelled by a certain measure of resentment, but whatever the reason he was comfortably the most influential player on view, with 3 goals and a stream of telling possessions. Others to play well for the Tasmanians included So plucky was the Tasmanian display
that by the final quarter the home supporters had taken to booing their own team and applauding the work of the visitors. Written for publication by John Devaney Tasmanian Football Milestones
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