Monday, March 23, 2009
Women's rugby 70 years ago
There are precious few images - or come to that records - from women's rugby history before the 1980s, so this 1930s team photo from the archives of the New South Wales State Library is a real rarity. Women's rugby was popular in parts of Australia in the 1930s before disappearing during the war, not being revived until 50 years later.
The picture was taken by someone called Sam Hood and is one of 30,000 negatives the library was given. Unfortunately there seems to be no record of who this team was or when or exactly where it was taken - so we'll probably never know who these players were, or what happened to the young girl at the front...
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