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Hajduk Split football tour 1949

Visit to Australia by Croatia's oldest football team.

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Football Federation Australia

Governing body of soccer in Australia. Established in 1963 as Australian Soccer Federation (later Association), renamed in 2004

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Football NSW Super League

Rival football association to Australian Rugby League created in 1995 and brought together in 1997.

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Football NSW Super Youth League

Youth division of the Football NSW Super League

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Lola football club

Croatian football club established in 1945

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Manly-Warringah Rugby League Football Club

Rugby League club established in 1947

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Marconi Stallions Football Club

Soccer club which grew from the Italian community club Marconi but which now commands support from across the soccer community.

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Baker, Harold

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Notable sportsman who won three New South Wales swimming championships in 1906 and captained the Australian water polo team. He played Rugby football for Australia three times against New Zealand. He also won boxing and wrestling championships and worked as a boxing referee. Once described as a 'man with a marble mouth and a jaw of steel. A man of ice with frozen eyes and a frozen voice', he became famous for his role in the Coogee Beach surf rescue of 1911.

Clarken, James (Jimmy)

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Tram driver and professional footballer from Glebe who became famous for his role rescuing several people, alongside his friend Harold Baker, in the Coogee Beach surf rescue of 1911.