NEWCASTLE FOOTBALL TEAM 1905

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CM Nixon

1905

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Overview

Group portrait of team members of the Newcastle Football club, the Wanderers, including team players and officials.
Taken out of doors in a yard with a wooden fence.
People, all male, lined up in 3 rows - rear standing, middle seated on a bench & front cross-legged on the ground. Players wearing sporting attire inc. caps, vests, knee length shorts, knee-high socks and boots. Two club officials at middle left in the group wearing suits. Small boys have tagged on to the end of the group photo and in far left background a group of three people (possibly incl. two females) who are not involved with the photographic session are sitting against the fence.
Extensive foxing (brown spots) across the photograph and backing card.

Historical information

Photograph with names published in the Western Mail 2 Sept 1905.
Premiers of the Eastern Districts Junior Football Association. The names are as follows:-
Standing - C. Bird, F. Kingston, H. Wroth, A. Davey, A. Briggs
Middle row - F. Green, V. Riseley, D. Clarkson, M. Robinson, G. Wroth, E. Smith, P. Donegan, L. Kingston, H. Abrahams
Front row (sitting) - E. Donegan, C. Doust, S. Leeder (captain), G. Lukin, A. Rogers
The Captain (in front, holding the ball, is Septimus Noel Leeder. In 1905 Septimus married May Green, the daughter of Fred Green. (Fred is in the photo too). Septimus was going to manage the Newcastle Wine Saloon (now demolished) in late 1905 but it is unknown for how long this happened. Septimus died in May 1909 at the young age of 26 from a heart attack, leaving a widow and two sones. He was the son of W.G. and Hannah Leeder, and the grandfather of Toodyay Historical Society patron Len Leeder.

Details

Registration number

cwa-org-37-2015.9

Item type

Photographs

Material

Card

Photographic Paper

Width

30.2000 cm

Height or length

25 cm