Tea Tree Gully Football Team in 1922. During 1922 and 1923 Tea Tree Gully competeted in the Torrens Valley Football League.

L. to R. Back Row: G. Schlein (follower), R. Tregeagle (follower), G. Johns, P. Phillips, E. Lokan, L. Lokan, E. Lokan.
Second Row: E. Heitmann, C. Neale, K. Dunn, R. Cooke, H. Neale, P. Heitmann, I. Neale.
Front Row: W. Claridge, G. Cooke, V. Bowen, Umpire, C. Hawke, S. Phillips, J. Loxton.

The Tea Tree Gully Football Club is one of the oldest continuing football clubs in Australia. Their first game was played against the Adelaideians on August 30 1862.

A football match was played at Modbury by 20 members of the Adelaide Football Club against an equal number of the Tea Tree Gully and Modbury Club... The Adelaideians hired one of Rounsevell's omnibuses which started from the Globe Hotel, Rundle Street... The sides were marshalled under the command of Mr T. O'Halloran and Mr J. Robertson of the Teatree Gully Rifles, and the tug of war commenced. The ground on which it took place was exceedingly rough - it looked, in fact, very like fallowed ground. This gave the yeomanry an advantage over the townsmen who had always been in the habit of practising on level soil... Notwithstanding this inconvenient state of terra firma Captain O'Halloran and his men, who had the kick off, went manfully to work...

After about one hour's hard play one goal was made by the O'Halloran's side, but being disputed by their competitors it was not counted. The ball resumed its rolling propensities and the men their perambulations after it, and another hour had nearly elapsed, when, by dint of science and great activity, the Adelaideians succeeded in making a goal about which there could be no question... It was inspiring to as well as amusing to see the struggle of the two parties - the hairbreadth scrapes the ball encountered from going through the goal, the changing successes of either side, the ludicrous tumbles of head over heels and heels over head, and the mirth-provoking tricks of the skilful, by which the unwary was compelled, against his will, to kiss the hard featured face of mother earth. About a quarter after five o'clock a loud shout proclaimed victory of the Adelaide club, another goal having been secured. It was at first called into question, but after a little explanation the country club admitted that they had been fairly beaten. Some unpleasantness occurred at first through the Modbury and Tea Tree Gully men not knowing the laws by which football in this colony was regulated but upon their understanding them a better feeling prevailed.
The South Australian Register 1/9/1862 p. 2

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