Know Your History with Shannon Gill
The History of Anzac Day Football - Know Your History with Shannon Gill (24.04.25)
Oct 20, 2026 · 36 min · 19 segments
The History of Anzac Day Football - Know Your History with Shannon Gill
Know Your History with Shannon Gill
Oct 20, 2026 · 36 min · 19 segments
The History of Anzac Day Football - Know Your History with Shannon Gill
So I want to give thanks to Trevor Riddell at the MCC Library and Alexandra McLennan at the Australian Sports Museum who have put me onto this.
So if you are at games at the MCG this weekend, drop into the Australian Sports Museum immediately.
If you're into this sort of stuff, because in 1925, what happened was that, uh, this was the first Saturday that fell on an Anzac day after world war one.
We go, we have racing mates on a Saturday racing, no racing racing was canceled.
This was the time where all the players came together to play practice matches, but what we would now know as intra club practice matches.
The possibles v the probables would all get together and play and work out who's going to play in the first game.
At this point, Anzac Day is still sort of finding its place as to what it means.
Um, the interesting parts of that, and you can, you can read all about this in the record this weekend and you can, um, see it at the G.
So, uh, the interesting part is the MCC have found in recent times, they've found a bunch of documents letters, receipt books, and so forth that confirms all this, that this actually happened.
So they think that every VFL team played a game with proceeds going to the Anzac appeal on that day, 100 years ago, interestingly.
So I want to give thanks to Trevor Riddell at the MCC Library and Alexandra McLennan at the Australian Sports Museum who have put me onto this.
So if you are at games at the MCG this weekend, drop into the Australian Sports Museum immediately.
If you're into this sort of stuff, because in 1925, what happened was that, uh, this was the first Saturday that fell on an Anzac day after world war one.
We go, we have racing mates on a Saturday racing, no racing racing was canceled.
This was the time where all the players came together to play practice matches, but what we would now know as intra club practice matches.
The possibles v the probables would all get together and play and work out who's going to play in the first game.
At this point, Anzac Day is still sort of finding its place as to what it means.
Um, the interesting parts of that, and you can, you can read all about this in the record this weekend and you can, um, see it at the G.
So, uh, the interesting part is the MCC have found in recent times, they've found a bunch of documents letters, receipt books, and so forth that confirms all this, that this actually happened.
So they think that every VFL team played a game with proceeds going to the Anzac appeal on that day, 100 years ago, interestingly.
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