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A sepia photograph of four rows of the Colts Football team, players and officials. There are three football players sitting on the floor in the front row and the centre person has a football which has written on it '1941 Premiers'. The photograph is on a brown cardboard mount.
Above the photograph is typed in black ink "COLTS' FOOTBALL CLUB. PREMIERS KATANNING ASSOCIATION 1941'
Below the photograph typed in black ink is 'Back Row.-M. Atkings, O. Quartermaine, H. Atkins, L. Esmond, A. Sampson.
Thired Row.-K. Severin, B.Kent, B. McAuliffe, A. Quartermaine, ? Corneliums, D. Hickling, S.Squiers, T. Savory (Vice President).
CentreRow.-R. Hastie, R. Whitton, A. Norrish (President), O. Stephens (Captain, P. Gallagher (Secretary), P. Cook.
Front Row.-C. Johns, V. McAuliffe, (Vice-Captain), D. Meyn.'
An article which details that due to the impact of the Second World War, that only two of the six original teams remain which were 'Australs' and 'Federals', but that a new team called 'Colts' of mainly younger men had formed.
Courtesy of Katanning Historical Society.
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