PHOTOGRAPHIC PASTE-UP EXHIBITION

7 1 PLAY WITH 2 PRIDE 3 CELEBRATING 125 YEARS OF 4 UNIVERSITY SPORT 6 8 Discover historical photos exhibited across the 5 10 North Terrace Campus, showcasing 125 years of Adelaide University Sport. Chosen by key people in our sports community, each image has been thoughtfully selected from the University Archives for you to view. 9 5 August 2021 – 9 January 2022

This exhibition has been curated by the Library PLAY WITH PRIDE IMAGE LIST

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The Cloisters Darling West The Braggs Engineering South Adelaide University Mixed Intervarsity Cricket Team, Intervarsity Swimming Intervarsity Football Club, Football Team, 1969 1925 Team, 1935 1961 Chosen by: Michelle Wilson, Chosen by: Rob O’Shannassy, Chosen by: Michael Physick, Chosen by: Beth Filmer, Adelaide Adelaide University Sport and Adelaide University Cricket Club University Representative on the University Football Club Member, Fitness General Manager Historian and former Player, Blues Board of Adelaide University Sport former Adelaide University Award Winner 1968, Adelaide and Fitness 2003-present Badminton Player This is a joyful photograph University Cricket Club Blues capturing the spirit of community Committee Member 1972-present While there have been few The 1960s was a golden era for the and sport. The diversity in 3 changes to many sports over the Adelaide University Football Club participation it represents is quite Photo of the 1925 Intervarsity team past 125 years, there have been under coach Allan Greer (1960-67). amazing for AFL as it predates the Union House that defeated in December many changes in the uniforms. This 1961 Intervarsity team was inclusion of a formal women’s 1925. The team went on to win the This photograph from 1935 shows captained Tony Clarkson, a Sturt football competition. Intervarsity Hockey Team, South Australian Cricket Association the formality of sport in that era – and South Australian State player. 1956 A Grade Premiership in April 1926. even swimming. It is great to see The Club played in every A1 Grand Chosen by: David Penn, Adelaide a team with equal gender Final in the ‘Sixies, winning six 2 University Sports and Fitness Notable players include SA State representation, even in 1935. premierships. This was an enviable President and Adelaide University players: N A Walsh, W C Alexander, record and a performance unsur- On Dit Lane Cricket Club Life Member L B Power, L S Walsh, D G McKay, B passed in amateur league history. W Hone. Sir Brian William Hone was Adelaide University I chose this image because it 8 a noted educationalist and held the Rowing Crew, 1922 illustrates how people of very post of Headmaster of Horace Lamb Chosen by: Mike Daws, Adelaide different backgrounds and 10 Grammar. Douglas Gordon McKay University Sport General Manager experiences can be brought Adelaide University was an eminent Paediatric Surgeon. Barr Smith Library, Level 3 2009-2018 together by the love of their Squash Team, 1963 chosen sport. I think it also captures Chosen by: Kim Evans, University of Intervarsity Lacrosse Team, Winning the prestigious Oxford and a shift in the social history of the 6 Adelaide ‘Roma’s’ (Women’s Rugby 1890 Cambridge Cup has always been University, showing how international 7s) Program Manager, Adelaide Chosen by: Margaret Gayen, seen as the pinnacle of men’s rowing students have become such an Barr Smith Library, Level 3 University Rugby Player and Coach Adelaide University Athletics Team in University Sport. An intervarsity important part of the life of Captain 2013-2015, Adelaide Intervarsity Women’s University sport has always been a race between men’s eights, it was the campus. University Captain for the first held in 1888. Over its 130+ year Hockey Team, 1950 great opportunity for student to University Games Team 2015, history, Adelaide has won the race Chosen by: Juliet Haslam, Olympian travel, like this group of young men Blues Award Winner 2014, Blues on only 11 occasions, remarkably 4 Hockeyroo and University of and women climbing onto ‘TAA Committee Member four times over an eight-year period Adelaide Elite Athlete Flight 431’ with their racquets and from 2009 to 2016. Union House their official Adelaide University I completed a Bachelor in Mechanical This 1950 team achieved what few and Sports Engineering at Adelaide Intervarsity Judo Team, Sports Association sports bag. When held in Adelaide, the race was other hockey teams of the era University, and part of that degree 1960 previously held on the Port River managed, they seized a win from focused on the design of sports Chosen by: Michael Headland, during the early years, as this photo the highly competitive Eastern equipment and clothing. This photo Adelaide University Judo Club from 1922 shows. State universities. I selected this is fascinating to me because it Head Coach 1972-present photo to celebrate this achievement Indicating how difficult it has been demonstrates the development in and for the sense of joy and pride to win the race, there was a 40-year The first Adelaide University Judo equipment and sports clothing that you can see on the team’s faces. gap from 1934 to 1974 and a 30-year Intervarsity team off to has occurred over the last 130 years I also love the retro look of gap from 1979 to 2009 when Adelaide only two years after the Club was – just look at the boots, and the the uniforms. was unable to take the Cup, although founded in 1958. The team was lacrosse sticks! In comparison it has been the runner-up on more coached by Joe Revalk. though, the body language of the than 20 occasions over its history. team members is so familiar, it could be any sports team today.