BHS Football XVIII 1925

The football season dosed at the end of September, after a very interesting and fairly successful season, both in first XVIII. and in faction matches. The school sent a representative team to Perth in August to compete in the inter-Secondary School Sports, and was unlucky to lose the first match to Kalgoorlie High School by nine points. The other two matches proved rather easy victories for Northam and Modern School, respectively, but our team showed a very distinct improvement on last year’s form, several members excelling themselves.

Apart from local matches, we met a team from Jolimont (M.J.F.A.), and were successful in closing the season with a meritorious victory of seven points. The efforts of the school team in the third quarter, during which six of the eight goals were kicked, were worthy of great praise, and helped materially to win us the match from a team which arrived in Bunbury with a very high reputation.

The first XVIII. was ably skippered by Neill Sinclair, and a great deal of its success was due to his energetic efforts.

Faction football was very keenly contested this year, as Kingia, Red, and Gold were rather evenly matched. Blues were unlucky to have such a weak team, but did well to defeat Kingia on one occasion. A premiership round was played at the end of the season, Red faction annexing the honours of premiers. They had a particularly good season, winning 13 of the 14 matches played, and incidentally winning the pennant.

'Football Notes' from the December 1925 edition of the Kingia magazine.