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March 4, 1914

Yarrabah, Queensland
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Yarrabah – Football – Yarrabah – 1914

Report on Ration Day in Y, 4 March 1914, written by Superintend King [Rev Cecil King]. People from all of the settlements were in Y to collect their monthly rations. “After dinner a football match with twenty-three aside was played, or rather fought, between the Mission and the combined settlements. The Superintendent acted as referee, and his task was no sinecure, though he had to let old rules of offside and the like go by the board; for, as the comic song says, “Everybody’s doing it now! [sic]. The barracking was simply great! – quite impartial from the women and girls, if not from the men. After an hour and twenty minutes with no respite, the final whistle blew, leaving the settlements the winners by eighteen to eleven” (p 7). Source: A.B.M. Review, 1 4 1914, pp. 6-7.