Bernard Whimpress
Endangered Species And ‘National Football’, 1986-1990
This paper was delivered on 13 July 2005 to the biennial conference of the Australian Society for Sports History, Sporting Traditions XV held at the Melbourne Cricket Ground. The main sources used were the Football Times Yearbooks and SANFL Annual Reports for the relevant years. Most of the material on the Port Adelaide bid to join the AFL in 1990 is drawn from articles in the Adelaide News
This paper was delivered on 13 July 2005 to the biennial conference of the Australian Society for Sports History, Sporting Traditions XV held at the Melbourne Cricket Ground. The main sources used were the Football Times Yearbooks and SANFL Annual Reports for the relevant years. Most of the material on the Port Adelaide bid to join the AFL in 1990 is drawn from articles in the Adelaide News
The Aestheticization Of The Don
This essay was first delivered as a paper to the State History Conference in Adelaide in 2002. It was published in the English magazine Cricket Lore in August 2004 and appears in my book Off Cuts: Writings on Sport (Axiom, 2008).
This essay was first delivered as a paper to the State History Conference in Adelaide in 2002. It was published in the English magazine Cricket Lore in August 2004 and appears in my book Off Cuts: Writings on Sport (Axiom, 2008).
