A Short Biography of Quilp, Part One

Quilp, later known as Jacky Lynch or John Lynch, was Australia’s earliest known Aboriginal soccer player, goal-scorer and referee. His earliest documented game was for Ipswich-based Reliance FC in 1904, a club formed from Dinmore Bush Rats’ junior (lower league) squad. Later he won the 1910 Brisbane Junior Challenge Cup with Bush Rats.

Quilp’s career may have started much earlier. He was first seen in the company of Dinmore footballers as early as 1894, most notably attended a Bush Rats club concert in 1899. There are no records showing Quilp played football in this period, with the local newspaper underreporting the junior competition in favour of the senior and Brisbane competitions. Like many of the junior players of the period, his career may have been obscured.

Quilp was variously reported to have been born in the Gulf County or the Warrego region around 1870. It was known he grew up and worked from a young age in the household of grazier John Ashburn, who had properties Hoganthulla in the Warrego and Evora in the Blackall/Barcaldine region. The main stock route from the Gulf Country ran through the Barcaldine region, while Ashburn had in-laws in the Gulf. It is unknown how Quilp came into Ashburn’s household, or whether other members of his mob worked and lived with Ashburn.  

Ashburn moved to Ipswich in the 1880s and eventually built a house named Ashdale at the junction of the Bremer and Brisbane Rivers. Ashburn’s properly is now a Salvation Army farm. Ashburn became a butcher and hosted annual sports days on his property for the local butchers and their workers. Quilp would live at Ashdale until 1897.

The Bremer and Brisbane Rivers flooded in 1893. Ashburn evacuated with his family and servants to the property of William Lynch in Dinmore. Also in attendance were David Nunn and his family, who also had property on the Bremer River. Lynch was inaugural principal of the Dinmore State School, as well as president of the Dinmore football club. Dinmore FC played their games at Nunn’s paddock. It is possible Quilp was among those evacuated and met Dinmore footballers as a result.

Quilp first appears in the newspaper in 1894, when the Protestant Alliance Friendly Society of Australia held a sports day at The Junction, a large recreation reserve on the opposite bank to Ashburn’s property. Among the sports were a sack race which featuring Quilp against local footballers J. Jeffrey, R. Campbell and Matthew Bognuda, all associated with either Bush Rats or Dinmore FC. During the same sports day a football game was held between the Pride of Dinmore Lodge, featuring members of the Bush Rats, and the remaining Bush Rats.

The recent discovery of the sack race is important, as it shows Quilp held that name while living with Ashburn.  Quilp’s next newspaper appearance would not be until 1897, after he left Ashburn’s residence.

Ashburn died in 1895, and in 1897 the family sold Ashdale to the Salvation Army. Quilp is said to have left the property when it was sold. It was only after this point Quilp was next seen in newspaper print, appearing in court on the charge of being drunk. Such arrests would be a semi-regular occurrence until the end of Quilp’s life, and mostly resulted in fines. During the 1890s and 1900s the police were more concerned with arresting those who supplied the alcohol to Aboriginal people.

Between 1897 and 1900, Quilp was regularly mentioned as a member of the Dinmore competitive quoits team alongside member of the Bush Rats football team. In 1899 he is mentioned as attending a function for the Bush Rats in which he won a hornpipe contest. It is unknown whether Quilp was playing for Bush Rats at this point.

Quilp soon worked for the potteries, rising to the level of foreman. It is unknown which pottery he worked for, but it is strongly suspected to be Reliance. Reliance Pottery’s co-owners were one-time sack-race competitor Matthew Bognuda, who was vice-president of the Bush Rats in 1899 and fellow Bush Rats alumni A. Hudson. The duo formed their own senior football team called Reliance FC in 1900, which, it was stated, included members of Bush Rats junior team. It was at Reliance Quilp is first seen playing football in 1904. In a confusing newspaper report Quilp is stated to have been sent off, and then scoring the only goal of the game, the earliest known by an Aboriginal player. The result of his send-off was a suspension by the association for the remainder of the season.

Quilp was next seen playing in 1908, stepping up to Bush Rats senior grade to fill in, and not again until mentioned as receiving a medal for the 1910 junior premiership title. A well-known photo exists of the 1910 junior premiership winning team features Quilp in the centre, surrounded by white faces.

Quilp was semi-regularly seen in the newspapers in the first decade of the 1900s. He is seen in the company of Bush Rats players playing up at a wedding reception, and in an altercation on a train. He boxes. At no stage is he mentioned in the company of other Aboriginal people.

This would change in 1911 when he was removed from Dinmore to Barambah Mission in modern day Cherbourg. It is unknown whether his removal was in connection to his most recent arrest for drunkeness in December the previous year, or his working conditions. Under laws enacted in 1899, unemployed Aboriginal people could be removed to the missions. In late 1910 Quilp was working at the St Helen’s Brick and Tile company recently started by a Mr Doyle. This company folded in 1911, which may have led to Quilp’s unemployment and removal.

What happened next can be found in State Government records. 

The Dinmore population tried to prevent the removal. A petition was sent to the Chief Protector of Aboriginals from the local community to block the move. It was ignored. A travel permit was sought by the Booval police to allow Quilp to move to Clermont to take up employment. It is suspected the job was provided by former Bush Rat William Jeffrey who ran the the Blair Athol mine just outside Clermont. This permit was also rejected.

Quilp’s time at Barambah itself is largely unknown except for two key instances. Firstly, he was selected to appear as an exhibit in the 1912 Brisbane Exhibition (Ekka). The Ekka had a display of Aboriginal labour, both works and the workers themselves. It was largely an advertisement for the hiring out of those in the mission, for which the government was paid. Quilp’s name appears on the transfer papers to head to the Ekka.

Later in 1912 Quilp was hired out to Stradbroke Island to clear land. After this period of employment, the Chief Protector asked where Quilp had gone, to which he discovered Quilp had been allowed to return to Dinmore to work. The Chief Protector asked for Quilp to be handed over, the last time known contemporary documents mention the name Quilp by that name until 1929.

It is unknown what happened, but it seems Quilp took on the run, over the border to NSW and away from the draconian laws governing his life. And with his new life came a new name: John “Jacky” Lynch.

Western Pride Women's Stats

Western Pride turned 10 in November 2022. To celebrate I published the Men's stats from 2013-2022 covering the first 10 seasons of the club. 

With the completion of the 2022 Seniors Women's season, I can now publish the all-time Women's stats from 2014-2022 . Pride started their junior girl's program in 2013, and joined the SEQ Women's Premier league in 2014, which was set up as a precursor to the fully fledged NPLW a year later. The club also appeared in the 2014 Elaine Watson Cup, and over the last two years the Kappa Cup, making the inaugural final in 2021. 

This year, in their 9th season, they make their first finals, where they narrowly lost in the semi-finals. Had their been finals in 2021, they would have also made the finals having finished 2nd in the FQPL table. 

Amendum: The play statistics for the 2023 season have now been added to the spreadsheets. This is the team's 10th season. 

Western Pride Men stats and an update

 Hello. It's been a while. During the last two years I have been doing plenty of soccer history work, but not necessarily regarding Ipswich, and if it is it is not in a state to publish. My main focus has been the life stories of Quilp, and also Arthur Thoby Prinsep. In fact I have added Prinsep's potted bibliography to this blog as a separate page as a adjunct to his soccer career of which I am still writing about.

I've also been helping other researchers with their own projects, and have found the earliest known game in NSW. 

But there is some more recent history to publish. 

Western Pride turned 10 in November 2023, and has completed 10 seasons. I've put together basic stats of all senior men players - league and cup appearances and goals, and the years they played senior football. The information can be found here. The senior women will be done once their season has finished in about a month. 

I have been compiling Pride stats since I worked for the club between 2016 and 2018. The earlier stats were provided to me by the then media department of FQ, who kept their own corrected stats because GameDay/SportsTG gives appearance stats to unused subs. 

This is to celebrate the many different players who have played for the senior men's team, whether for a hundred games or a brief sub appearance. The history of any club is its people, and I hope this lists helps celebrate but allows future researchers tracking individual players. 

Amendum: I have added the stats for the 2023 season. 

The Original Ipswich Soccer Players

I’ve recently circled back to the originals of club football in Ipswich. I’ve been able to have a little delve into the backgrounds of the players, or at least those most likely to have played for Bundanba Rovers and Queenslanders in 1886 to better understand how these teams came about. This was thanks to Library access to Ancestry.com becoming remotely accessible thanks to Covid.

Below are some quick details about these probable players. These are either the definite players (like the Stephens brothers), though a few are candidates due to a lack of alternatives of the surnames in the right age bracket at the time (marked with a ‘*’ - eg Denham).

Bundanba Rovers

James Stephenson Glasgow – born Cambusnethan, Lanarkshire, Scotland 1892. Arrived in Queensland as a 23-year old in January 1886, before leaving back for the UK sometime after October 1887 as he was aged 27. He would return to Australia, getting married in Victoria in 1890, before residing in Queensland. Glasgow’s occupation was listed as an engineer.
Glasgow was one of the driving forces for the creation of Bundanba Rovers, but the club faltered in his departure.

Charles John Denham* – born 1857 in Smallburgh, Norfolk but emigrated to Ipswich before May 1885. Lived in Melbourne by 1903, where he was listed as a labourer. There were no other Denham’s in the Ipswich I could find at the time.

Joseph James Parker* – Ipswich-born in 1857, he moved from Ipswich to Caboolture sometime around 1887. He worked as a post-master. There are no other Parkers in the correct age bracket I can find in Ipswich at the time.

William and James Lindsay – William was born in 1868, and James n 1864, both in Inveresk, Scotland. The brothers would become major figures in Ipswich soccer in the 1890s. William would win trophies with Dinmore Bush Rats. They were well known for the mine they ran in Bundanba.

Alexander Dobbie – the Dobbie family arrived in Queensland in December 1884. Alex was 16 at the time. He was listed as an engine driver in 1908. Younger brother James would rise to prominence in Ipswich soccer in the 1890s and represent Queensland in 1898.

David Waugh – Waugh was born around 1854. He lived in Ayrshire, Scotland in 1877, where his son David was born. The family arrived in Queensland just before Christmas 1885. Both Davids were involved in mining, and both injured in the same accident in 1897, aged 44 and 20 respectively. At the time the son was a prominent soccer player in Ipswich.

Unknown: Sneddon, Matthewson – probably James, but too many in town at the time, Gordon – again too many possibilities, though many Ipswich born).

Queenslanders

William H Bemi – The goalkeeper was born in Shoreditch, Middlesex in 1858. He became a long term resident of Ipswich, where his occupation was listed as printer.

George, Robert, Jack and Ben Stephens – the brothers were all Ipswich born and were blacksmiths. Their parents were English-born.

Thomas Tunstall was born in Stoke-on-Trent, and was 18 when he played for Queenslanders, having come to Australia in his teens. He went on to become an insurance agent.

Joseph Lebeter – born in Derbyshire in 1865 and arrived in Australia 25 August 1885. His occupation later was listed as miner.

Tom Weatherhogg – born in January 1865, in Sheffield, and came to Australia as a 17 year old in 1882. Possibly becomes a miner.

Unknown: Pettigrew (possibly John or James, across two generations), Hudson  - too many running around at the time to be sure which, but possibly linked to the family of William Hudson, co-proprietor of a pottery and with a long involvement in Dinmore FC and Bush Rats.

Ipswich Soccer in 1891

Matches:

Results of games played in 1891 involving Ipswich clubs and players can be found here. 

Key Events:

Early 1891: W. J. Lynch moves to Dinmore from Redbank to open a new school. Lynch soon became president of  Dinmore Soccer (and Cricket) Clubs, and later Bush Rats until his death in 1910. 

February 28: Preliminary meeting to gauge interest in new Ipswich club.

March 6: Meeting to officially form Ipswich Club

April 16: Blackstone Rovers AGM. 

August 17: Meeting to create the West Moreton Junior Football association, and associated competition, both firsts for the Ipswich region. 

November 7: Blackstone Rovers 1 - 0 Silkstone to win the inaugural Ipswich and West Moreton Association Cup. 

Known Unknowns: 

When did Blackstone Rovers and Bush Rats play their first game?

Uncertains: 

Was there a Dinmore Stars which never made the first round of games? Was it Dinmore II?

Key Clubs: 

Ipswich FC, Silkstone (Stars), Dinmore, New Chum Bush Rats, Blackstone Rovers. 

Notable People:

Tom 'Old Horse' Barker

Historical Notes: 

Eighteen Ninety-one. This was the year soccer in Ipswich went from ad hoc pastime to organised competition. The West Moreton Junior Soccer Association formed in August, and with it the first organised Ipswich-based competition. This paved the way for an explosion of teams over the next few years. Some were fleeting, others lasted decades. Locally important soccer families like Hudson, Duck, Bognuda, and Nunn were seen for the first time. Ipswich soccer came alive. 

Surprisingly, the year started with the formation of a club which took part in neither the association nor the competition. 

Ipswich Club could be considered the last of the old-guard, if the sport's seven years existance in South East Queensland could have an old-guard. 

It was formed across two meeting at Ham's Rooms across late February and early March. In doing so Ipswich Club became the first club to be formed in the centre of Ipswich since Queenslanders five years earlier. 

The club was Brisbane-centric. The newly appointed captain George Shelley had played for St Andrews since 1887, and was part of the Queensland Representative team which returned triumphant the previous year. His family had a connection to Ipswich. Brother Sam also played for St Andrews and Queensland, but lived in Ipswich - indeed a street in the suburb of Brassall was named after Sam, the only resident at the time. 

The new club's secretary T Inglis had also been a member of the St Andrews squad as far back as 1886. 

At the meeting in early March to finalised the club's birth, A. H Barlow was chosen as patron, J. France as president, with A. Macfarlane, T. McNamee, J. McGill and W. M. McDonald also voted onto the committee. J. Hardy, W. Bruce and A. Reid were all involved.

Among the numbers who formed the club were Rugby and Australian rules players. With a number of new soccer players marshalled by some Brisbane players, thoughts of a local competition may not have been at the forefront of their minds. 

The creation of the club appears to have become possible due to players crossing over from Rugby and Australian rules. The latter's decline (well-documented in previous posts) possibly freed up playing stocks for soccer. When Ipswich beat Normans in April, it was noted many of the players were "new chums" to the sport rather than to Australia.

Further east, Blackstone Rovers were also in rude health, having survived the barren years of 1889 and 1890. In May they played the first known intra-city game in three years when they took on Ipswich Club. Notable among the Rovers players were their Queensland representative Tom 'Old Horse' Barker, as well as the Lindsay Brothers who had played in the region's first club Bundanba Rovers back in 1886.

In the usual congenial post-game celebrations, it is interesting to note George Shelley suggested Blackstone should join the "Union in Brisbane".  Here is that Brisbane-centric sensibility. But Rovers were no strangers to playing Brisbane clubs. The previous year they played St Andrews- indeed, it was their only known game that year. Was that game played under a formal association? And why weren't they members of that association in 1891? We simply do not know.

Rovers would continue to play games against Ipswich, St Andrews and Normans during 1891, but the fabric of Ipswich soccer was slowly changing. One of the reasons was a long-term investment wsa starting to bare fruit.

In early June, journalist Tom 'Old Sport' Barker published a series of linked articles called "A Week's Ruralising", devoted to a series of long walks he did on visiting his home town of Ipswich in 1889. It was during this walk he saw his namesake Tom 'Old Horse' Barker teaching soccer skills to players in Silkstone.

Another Ipswch soccer pioneer Dave Newland later wrote of helping to form a number of short-lived teams in Silkstone during this period, as well as a couple of other teams with 'Old Horse'.

While the exact dating is sketchy, Silkstone Stars played their first known game against Blackstone Rovers 2nds on Saturday June 13 1891. The Rovers gained a one-nil win. (On the same day 'Old Horse' captained a depleted Rovers first team to a 2-0 loss against St Andrews.)

Ipswich now had three known concurrent soccer teams for the first time.

On Saturday July 4, two teams from Dinmore also took to the field. The exact participants were not recorded, but the likelihood is this was the first known game featuring Dinmore, and either Dinmore Stars aka Dinmore II, or New Chum Bush Rats.

Two weeks later there was more clarity as Dinmore squared off against Bush Rats in the earliest known game for each club. Some important names names in the early years of Ipswich soccer were first seen in this game: the Duck brothers William and George, William Jeffrey, William Caddies, and also J Bognuda, the first known participating member of a family which would become very influential in Ipswich soccer in the next three decades.

These may not have been the first games of these teams. We've speculated previously of soccer played over the previous two years which went unreported. This was born out again in a Monday July 27 match report in which Bush Rats were said to play their second game against Blackstone. Was said game was the second meeting of 1891 or of all time? Could the game have taken place in 1890? Whichever, the first meeting went unrecorded.

On the same day, Dinmore played Silkstone, as an appetite for Ipswich football took hold. Tom 'Old Horse' Barker appears to have played for Silkstone on this day. Replacement players were fluid in this era, with players often being borrow between teams. Again, this was apparently the second game between the two clubs. Again, the first meeting went unrecorded.

Games then came regularly. Ipswich Club took on Dinmore in early August, with an Ipswich versus Brisbane representative game a week later, andmore games between Bush Rats, Blackstone, Dinmore and Silkstone in the following weeks.

A match report between Silkstone and Bush Rats helps fill in some detail. Dave Newland did play for Silkstone on August 15, as per his later reminiscences of forming Silkstone clubs, and the club was called Silkstone Stars in the match report. Newland would later formed Booval Stars.

The strong interest in the game lead to a push to form an association. What is interesting is the those involved in the game had been interested in forming such an association "for some time", which further suggests clubs like Dinmore, Silkstone and Bush Rats had been playing earlier than recorded.

Thus a meeting was held at the Workmen's Club in Dinmore. Blackstone's Tom "Old Horse" Barker chaired. Dinmore's captain William Caddies motioned the formation of an association, while Lovell, one of the longest serving local players in the room, seconded. The meeting then adjourned to Kennedy's Hotel in Booval that evening.

That night, "Old Horse" was elected secretary, publican W. Kennedy president, and Bush Rat's William Duck as treasurer. A competition was announced, comprising:

"New Chum Bush Rats to play on the Blacketone ground against Blackstone,  Dinmore Stars v Silkstone at Silkstone; Dinmore a bye"

There's a lot to unpack here. Firstly there seems to be a Dinmore and a Dinmore Stars. Yet Silkstone was called Silkstone Stars in the same newspaper earlier in the month.

One explanation for Dinmore Stars could be the cap of 14 registered players a team, possibly splitting the Dinmore club in two. This is merely speculation, and, as we will soon see, not a lasting problem.

Further down the same general news column announcing the association's formation, the news was repeated again, but this time stating "that the teams in Ipswich, Blackstone, Bundanba, Dinmore and other places will make an endeavour to have this worked on a successful footing next year." 

Yet there were no clubs in Ipswich or Bundamba in the new competition. 

Had it joined, Ipswich Club would have been the most westerly team in the new association. There is no explanation for their omission, except to note the club would not be in existence in 1892 and may have been in decline.

Then there was Bundanba. There had been no known team in Bundanba since at least 1889, and that was only in a combined game with Blackstone players. 

Of course, this list of places in the Ipswich region could be an announcement of possible teams joining the competition in 1892. We shall see if this came about in the next post.

In the first round of the knock-out Association Cup,h Silkstone beat Dinmore II (aka Second Dinmore, aka Dinmore Stars).

Bush Rats hosted Blackstone Rovers in the other game, with the visitors securing a 2-0 win.

Dinmore, meanwhile, who had the bye, hosted Ipswich Club and gained a 5-0 win. The home side included a Nunn, a Hudson, and the aforementioned J Bognuda, all surnames which would become important in the next two decades.

The results for the remaining rounds can be seen here. As teams were knocked out of the Association Cup, they continued to play friendlies.

Ipswich FC's, having beaten Silkstone in a friendly, closed their season with a game against St Andrews. An unrecorded dispute saw Ipswich refuse to play, so St Andrews kicked off, tapped the ball in and were awarded the win. Ipswich protested, and then protested against the Brisbane association. This was their last ever game, though a club of the same name would appear in 1893.

The final of the West Moreton Association Cup was delayed after Dinmore won a protest at Blackstone fielding an ineligible player after losing in early September. Blackstone won the replay and took in Silkstone in the final on November 7. Blackstone would win the inaugural Ipswich competition by a goal to nil.

The match report from a Dinmore correspondent strangely credits Blackstone twice with a "try", before finally recording a goal. There is no mention of tries in other match reports this season. The question is whether the correspondent was unfamiliar with soccer or whether the rules were modified in Ipswich. Regardless, J. Lovell, captain of Blackstone Rovers, lifted the first ever Ipswich and West Moreton trophy.

In 1891 Ipswich soccer came of age. The following year it would only get bigger.

A Different Type of Soccer Memorial

James Bell

The Soccer Monument Map project initiated by Paul Mavroudis got a mention on If You Know Your History this week, and being stuck at home with sick progeny led me back to the rabbit hole of searching for the grounds, statues, plaques and now murals dedicated to footballing people around the country. 

In a bid to  try different search terms, I typed in "soccer memorial" into Trove. In the midst of the many games played at various Memorial Ovals and Parks and for Memorial Cups around the country, I came across a very different soccer memorial.

In 1933, James Bell, a soccer player for Latrobe FC in Brisbane, died in a motor vehicle accident aged 27. 

His funeral was well attended, not only by family and friends but of members of other sporting clubs, including "Brisbane Rugby League, Thistle Soccer Football Club, Western Suburbs Rugby League Football Club, Waratah Rugby League Football Club, Latrobe Soccer Club, Buffalo Football Club, Carlton Rugby League Club South Brisbane District Rugby League Club."

At a meeting of the Latrobe club a few days later, it was decided to form a committee to raise fund for a memorial at Bell's grave. 

I had yet to come across a soccer club funding such a memorial for a player, though I had seen such efforts elsewhere. As previously reported in these pages the Rugby fraternity in 1888 funded an engraved tablet for the visiting England captain B. L. Seddon who had drowned in the Hunter River. The tablet was unveiled accompanied by a speech from T.D. Warner, possibly the first soccer referee in Australia. 

Bell, however, was the first I'd seen connected with soccer, and having the club itself organising the funding committee. 

In April 1933, plans were made for a memorial fund game in Bundamba, though whether the game went ahead is unrecorded. By late June it was decided the fund would close the next month, clearly having met its goal. 

The fund received support from the Home Secretary and future Premier E. M. Hanlon  who unveiled the monument on the 6th of August. Alec Gibb, the first Socceroo captain and President of the Ipswich and West Moreton Association, as did Queensland soccer pioneer and head of the Referees Association S. I. Ross were among those invited. 

A few days before The Telegraph ran a full obituary, detailing how James "Windy" Bell was born in Glasgow in 1905, emigrated with his family in 1912 and started playing soccer in 1920 for Bedford Rovers and Caledonians (the Ipswich club of the Walloon/Thagoona area, and not the Brisbane team). Later, aged 24, he stepped up to senior competition with Thistle before finally joining Latrobe. His family was well known in sporting circles, with his father and uncle long connected to Thistle.

Here then was a different sort of soccer memorial. The question was, did it still exist, and was there any mention of soccer or Latrobe FC on the monument.

There are a few sites in which graves are listed, but the only listing for James Bell at Toowong Cemetery was from the 1950s repeatedly appeared. Ancestry.com finally turned up a cemetery listing for our man, though without a picture of the monument, or many other details. 

It was then I discovered the Brisbane City Council had a search function to find graves in their cemeteries, and a map of the one at Toowong. Our James Bell turned up, and a few days later off I went, dragging along the self-same progeny to get some sun. 

I'd driven past Toowong Cemetery often, but had never been in. It is located on a hillside, opposite the Botanic Gardens, and with an excellent view of the city, which was spoilt, according to my daughter who did not appreciate the locale of our walk, by the view of graves. 

Up and down hill we traipsed past graves aplenty, until we found plot 28-38-13 and our monument. 

"In Loving Memory

of

James Windy Bell

Killed, River Road

Brisbane March 1933

Aged 27 Years

---------

Erected By His Friends

And Comrades"

There is no mention of soccer, or Latrobe, but at times like these soccer isn't the point. His friends and comrades wanted to perpetuate his memory, and they succeeded. The other half of the monument, on the other side of the "rope" divider is empty, probably due to Bell being single at the time of the accident. 

So is this a Soccer Monument as befitting Paul's project? 

I would say there is an argument to be made. I wouldn't suggest every grave of every soccer player be included, but the fact it was the club which funded and arranged the monument is unusual. 

These days fields and grandstands are named after the dearly departed - the Lawrie Bloomfield Field at Teviot Downs Soccer Club and Cheryl Southwood Field at Pacific Pines FC are just two in Queensland dedicated since the start of last year - but in the 1930s, when fields were often named after living politicians or important living locals, one club took a different route to remembering a player taken too soon. 

Soccer In Ipswich in 1891 (Results only)

Ipswich Results 1891

Competition Names: Brisbane Association Friendlies, Ipswich Friendlies, Ipswich and West Moreton Association Cup, Inter-city Representative and Misc games.

Written by Garry McKenzie, using a template created by (and stolen from) John Punshon and Tony Persoglia

Sources: Trove

Home Team		v		Away Team
Brisbane Association Friendlies
Saturday, 25 April, 1891, North Ipswich Reserve, Referee: P. Lewis
Ipswich (Partial squad) Goalkeepers: W. Henderson, Larry; Backs: T. Inglis, McDonald; Forwards: G. Shelley (capt), Wright, Nicholls. Goals: Wright, G. Shelley	2	-	1	Normans (Partial squad) J. Inglis, Dreghorn, S. Shelley (capt). Goals: S. Shelley
Saturday 2 or 9 May, Blackstone
Blackstone Rovers (Partial squad) T. Barker (capt), Roberts, W Lindsay, K Lindsay, Newlands, Taylor . Goals: T. Barker	1	-	1	Ipswich (Partial squad) W Henderson (gk), G. Shelley (capt), W Wright, T Inglis, J Perrett, E Edmonson, R Evans . Goals: G. Shelley
Notes: Ipswich asks Blackstone Rovers to join the Brisbane Association.
Saturday 23 May (presumed), Blackstone
Blackstone Rovers (Partial squad) W Lindsay (gk), T. Barker (capt), J. Lindsay, J. Lovell (listed as capt in QT), Noble . Goals: T. Barker (2), and Lovell or Boland (og)	3	-	3	Normans (Partial squad) Boland (gk), S Shelley, Blake, Fenton, Crawford, Finlayson, Finlayson (brothers). Goals: Fenton, Blake (2)
Saturday, 6 June, 1891, Pineapple Park, Kangaroo Point, Referee C. Davey (St Andrews)
Normans (Partial squad) Blake, (maybe also a H Blake), Fenton, S. Shelley (capt), W. Shelley, Finlayson . Goals: either Blake (2) or Dreghorn (2)	3	-	2	Ipswich (Partial squad) G Shelley (capt), W. Wright, G. Sparks, Edmonson, Brown, McClosh, Bruce. Goals: G. Sparks or Bruce, W Wright
Saturday 6 or 13 June, 1891, Pineapple Park, Referee S Shelley (Normans)
St Andrews (Partial squad) J. Brown (capt). Goals: Unknown	2	-	0	Blackstone Rovers (Partial squad) T. Barker. Goals:
Notes: Played on the same day as the Blackstone 2nd v Silkstone Stars.
Saturday 20 June, 1891, North Ipswich Reserve, Referee G Lewis
Ipswich Goalkeeper: W Henderson; Backs: G. Shelley, W Nicholls; Half-backs: W. Bruce, Edwardson/Edmunson, A. Vance; Forwards: Inglis, Wright, McMurtrie, Sparks, Wheeling. Goals: T. Inglis	1	-	5	Blackstone Rovers (Partial squad) T. Barker, Lovell, Noble, W Lindsay, J Lindsay. Goals: Noble, Lovell, T. Barker (2), Unknown
Saturday, 18 July 1891, North Ipswich Reserve.
Ipswich	-	-	-	St Andrews (forfeit)
Notes: St Andrews didn't turn up. This wasn't the last controvery between the two teams that season.
Saturday, 3 October, 1891, Ipswich (presumable North Ipswich Reserve).
Ipswich	0	-	1	St Andrews
Notes: St Andrews turned up but Ipswich refused to play. The referee allowed St Andrews to kick-off, score and win the game.
Ipswich Friendlies
Saturday 6 or 13 June, 1891, Blackstone.
Blackstone (2nds) Unknown Goal: Unknown	1	-	0	Silkstone Stars Unknown.
Notes: Played on the same day as the St Andrews v Blackstone firsts game.
Saturday, 4 July 1891 ,Dinmore.
A team from Dinmore Unknown Goal: Unknown	?	-	?	Another team from Dinmore Unknown.
Notes: Presumably Dinmore and Dinmore II aka Dinmore Stars aka 2nd Dinmore. But Bush Rats may have been involved.
Saturday, 25 July 1891, Dinmore, Referee Ben Wilson.
Dinmore (Partial squad) W. Caddies, T Wardrobe, J. Bognuda, D. Bognuda, R. Nunn, G. Rockwood. Goals: W. Caddies	1	-	1	Silkstone (Partial squad) T. Barker, Bartdyle. Goals: T. Barker
Saturday, 25 July 1891, Dinmore.
New Chum Bush Rats (Partial squad) W. Duck (capt), J. Skelhorn, C. Campbell, D. Frankling (aka D. Franklin), W. Jeffrey, G. Duck, J. Jeffrey . Goals: J. Skelhorn	1	-	1	Blackstone Rovers (Partial squad) W. Taylor (capt), H. Gambling, F Barker, E Wallis, T. Jones. Goals: H. Gambling
Saturday, 1 August 1891, Bush Rats Ground, Referee J. Bell.
New Chum Bush Rats (Partial squad) G. Duck, W. Jeffrey, J. Jeffrey, D. Frankling, R. Campbell. Goals:	0	-	3	Ipswich (Partial squad) G. Shelley (capt), T. Wardrobe . Goals: Unknown
Notes: Ipswich only brought 6 players, and added 3 fill-ins, including Wardrobe, one from Dinmore and another from Blackstone.
Saturday, 15 August 1891, Silkstone Ground.
Silkstone Stars (Partial squad) Jones, Boulton, Marsh, Newlands, Hogg, Dwyer, Williams . Goals:	0	-	0	New Chum Bush Rats "Unknown to writer" Goals:
Saturday, 15 August 1891, Blackstone.
Blackstone Rovers (Partial squad) Roberts, Lovell. Goals: Lovell	1	-	1 or 0	Dinmore Unknown Goals: Unknown (outside left)
Notes: Result reported differently on Monday and Tuesday in the Queensland Times.
Saturday, 22 August, 1891, Dinmore (Probably Nunn's Paddock). Referee: H Humphreys.
Dinmore (Partial squad) W Caddies (capt), A Stewart, T Wardrode, J Bognuda, B Wilson, Stanley. Goals: A Stewart, W Caddies (2), T Wardrobe, A Stewart	5	-	0	Ipswich (Partial squad) B. Burrows, A. Nunn, Hudson, McMurtrie, Shelley, Ingles, Wright, Lowden Goals:
Notes: Played during Dinmore's bye in the Association Cup.
Saturday, 29 August, 1891, New Chum.
New Chum Bush Rats (Partial squad) G. Duck, W. Jeffrey, W. Duck (capt), W. Bailey. Goals: W. Jeffrey (shouldering the keeper over the line)	1	-	0	Silkstone (Partial squad) Bart Doyle (capt), J Thomas, W. Jones, D Bolton . Goals:
Notes: Played during Silkstone's bye in the Association Cup.
Saturday, 19 September, 1891, Silkstone, Referee R. Dwyer.
Silkstone (Partial squad) D. Newlands (capt), Boulton, Hogg. Goals: Unknown	1	-	2	Ipswich (Partial squad) W. Wright (capt), Roberts, Evens, Jones, Brown (fill-in). Goals: Jones, Jones
Ipswich And West Moreton Association Cup (Knockout)
Round One
Saturday, 22 August, 1891, Blackstone Ground.
Blackstone Rovers (Partial squad) Lovell (captain), T. Barker, T. Roberts, Nickleson, Jones. Goal:Unknown	2	-	0	New Chum Bush Rats (Partial squad) W Duck (captain), Duck (probably G), W. Jeffrey, J Jeffrey, Bailey, Bailey (probably M). Goals:
Saturday, 22 August, 1891, Silkstone Ground. Referee: P Doolan. Linesmen - J Dwyer and L Chard.
Silkstone A Hogg, D Bolton, B Doyle, B Newlands, W, Doyle, Jones, Marsh, Marsh. Goal:A Hogg, D Bolton, B, Doyle, D Newlands	4	-	0	Dinmore Stars aka Dinmore II (Partial squad) James Burns, Soby, Nunn, Lowe, Armstrong, Armstrong, J Trevis (substitute). Goals:
Dinmore	-	-	-	Bye
Round Two
Saturday, 29 August, 1891, Blackstone.
Blackstone Rovers (Partial squad) Barker, Lovell, Harris, Gambling, Evans . Goal:Lovell, Barker	2	-	1	Dinmore (Partial squad) Stanley, Stewart, Caddies. Goals: Stewart
Notes: Dinmore would lodge a protest regarding an unregistered player. The game would be replayed.
Silkstone	-	-	-	Bye
Saturday, 19 September, 1891, Dinmore.
Dinmore (Partial squad) W. Caddies (capt), Stewart, Munuda. Goal:	0	-	1	Blackstone Rovers (Partial squad) Jack Huse, Harry Gambling, Tapp, W. H. Jones. Goals: Harry Bambling
Notes: Blackstone wins the replay against Dinmore.
Final
Saturday, 7 November 1891, .
Blackstone Rovers (Partial squad) J. Lovell (capt), Barker, Gambling. Goal: Unknown	2	-	1	Silkstone Stars (Partial squad) B. Doyle (capt), J Doyle. Goals: B. Doyle
Representative and Other Misc Games
Saturday, 11 July, 1891, Union Ground, Bowen Bridge.
Brisbane (representative)s (Partial squad) Fowler, Jimmy Brown, W. Gardoon, . Goals: Fowler (4), J Brown, W Gardoon	6	-	2	Ipswich (representative) (Partial squad) Gordon, E. Noble, W Henderson, W. Wright, T. Barker . Goals: Gordon, Noble
Saturday, 8 August, North Ipswich Reserve.
Ipswich (representative) Goalkeeper: L. Henderson; Backs: J. Brown, W Lindsay; Half-backs: A. Noble, J. Lindsay, W. Roberts: Forwards: G. Shelley, W. Wright, T. McMurtrie, W. Lowdon, T. Barker. Goals: Lowdon, McMurtrie, G. Shelley (2)	4	-	2	Brisbane (representative) Goalkeeper: Stephenson or Weir; Backs: S. Shelley, H. Blake: Half-backs: Fenlock, D. Reglurin, Finlayson; Forwards: W. Dreghorn, Inglis, Fowler, Manson, J. Brown. Goals: Manson, J Brown
Saturday, 19 September, 1891.
Wheelers (Partial squad) J. Stevenson, W. Doyle, W. Jones, W. Dwyer, D. Reid, J. Auld, J. Cummings. Goals: J. Stevenson	1	-	0	Cutters (Partial squad) D. Clarkson, T. Brown, E. Edwards, D. Jenkins, J. White, H. Doyle. Goals:
Notes: Two teams from the West Moreton Colliery on Picnic Day.
Saturday, 3 October, 1891, New Chum, Referee J. Bell.
Red Caps (Partial squad) G. Duck (capt), A. Auld. Goals: A. Auld	1	-	5	The Bakers (Partial squad) W. Duck (capt). Goals: Unknown
Notes: New Chum Bush Rats' end of season scratch match.

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