Spectators at a football match |
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| Title : | Spectators at a football match |
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| Date of creation : | 1923 | ||
| Format : | Photograph | ||
| Dimensions : | 165 x 210 mm | ||
| Contributor : | State Library of South Australia | ||
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Close view of spectators enjoying a football match between Port Adelaide and Sturt. The tension and excitement of the game is reflected in the faces of the men, women and children. While the focus of football is mostly upon the players, spectators also play an important role in the game. Not simply by paying entrance fees but by encouraging their team, discouraging the opposition and questioning the eyesight of the umpire. Come rain or shine the diehard supporters will be at the ground hoping for a win. Some interesting comment has been made over many years about football crowds: Unless there is a radical change the fair sex will have to give up patronising the sport; for although black eyes and bloody noses may amuse them, they have to turn their heads when a fellow has to creep away half-naked, with only part of his clothes hanging to him in rags. Chronicle, 30 March 1878 It was a well-known fact that a great many more of the public would patronise football matches if they were divested of the roughness and selfish play that too often characterises this game as generally played. Correspondent to the Register on 23 March 1886, page 6e I... enter an indignant and strong protest against a blackguard minority of the spectators who polluted the pure air with a filthy torrent of blasphemous and obscene utterances... Our manhood, our reputations cry aloud for this evil to be repressed. Awaken! sleepy law... Register, 17 May 1890, page 3g The players, generally speaking, are a gentlemanly lot of fellows. Certainly some abuse in the heat of the moment is heaped upon the head of the umpire, but the real trouble comes from the ignorant barracker. How often do you hear a yell from the pickets, "How's that for holding the ball?"... If the Australian game is to maintain its popularity, there is a need for more fairness on the part of the public and firmness on the part of the umpires. Advertiser, 30 July 1910, page 13h No student of psychology could find a better ground for his studies than the mounds and grandstands of the Adelaide Oval on the occasion of a big premiership match. Advertiser, 30 September 1912, page 8i Quotes taken from the Manning index : State Library of SA The largest crowd to ever attend an SANFL match was for the 1976 Grand Final between Sturt and Port Adelaide which saw 66,897 people cram into Football Park. |
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| Period : | 1919-1927 |
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