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The Maher Cup
Neil Pollock
其他書名
A Social History of Football in the Group 9 Towns, 1920-1971
出版Neil Pollock, 2021-04-03
主題History / Australia & New ZealandSports & Recreation / General
ISBN06450633049780645063301
URLhttp://books.google.com.hk/books?id=gHUfzgEACAAJ&hl=&source=gbs_api
註釋The Maher Cup was a rugby league (originally rugby union) challenge cup contested between teams from the New South Wales South West Slopes and northern Riverina between 1920 and 1971. The towns involved were Cootamundra, Tumut, Gundagai, Temora, West Wyalong, Young, Harden-Murrumburrah, Junee, and Barmedman. Cowra, Grenfell, Boorowa and Wagga came and went. Nine other places made a challenge or two including teams drawn from Gibsonvale tin miners and Wyangala Dam construction workers. This is book about rugby league that seeks a broader remit, one that enables reflection on the life and times of the people of the region. It is an attempt to view a region's history through the prism of football. The objectives are to provide value to family historians, by listing every man recorded as having played Maher Cup football; to sports historians through description of each of the 729 matches played; to social historians, by examining contemporary attitudes and activities through half of century of change, from the horse and buggy to networked television; and general readers by attempting to capture the drama that football generated in these small towns.