Footy Days - South Lakes Junior Rugby League (Under 10's) about 1964
This was a club that was based at Dora Creek (Central Coast, NSW) . We played in St George colours (the "V" is red ) so have usually tended to favour them as an NRL team to follow.
This is how we played, no boots (not everyone could afford them) and the only padding was 2 squares of foam that were in an internal pocket on each hip.
The coach is my Uncle L , Im second left back row, and my cousin G is 3rd right front row (with Bandaids on knee). He went on to play in the Newcastle league for a while and would have most likely played with or against "Joey" Johns when Joey was starting his career in footy.
My father was the coach of this team when we were Under 8's , and can remember the away games usually involved fitting most (if not all ) of the team into a 1937 Pontiac (no seatbelts those days - lol ) and away we would go.
4 comments:
Great memory Robert...In he 70's my brothers still played without boots... Specially love the vision of you zooming off in a pontiac...lol
That is a wonderful older pic :) It would be another 3 years before I was born.
This is my first week playing along. If you have a moment please do stop by :)
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Ouch, how many broken toes did you end up with playing without shoes!?!
Your uncle/coach looks so stern & serious!
Great photo!
No broken toes that I can remember for anyone, pita. He might look stern, but wasnt, tho was fairly strict.
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