History of Brisbane - History of Association Football in Brisbane, Queensland, History of the Brisbane Broncos, Trams in Brisbane, World Expo 88, 2009 Australian Dust Storm, Battle of Brisbane, Thomas Brisbane, Pensacola Convoy (Paperback)

Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 66. Chapters: History of association football in Brisbane, Queensland, History of the Brisbane Broncos, Trams in Brisbane, World Expo 88, 2009 Australian dust storm, Battle of Brisbane, Thomas Brisbane, Pensacola Convoy, Whiskey Au Go Go fire, 1982 Commonwealth Games, Red Flag Riots, 1893 Brisbane flood, Ferry transport in Queensland, Treasury Building, Brisbane, Victoria Bridge, Brisbane, MacArthur Central, Brisbane, Paddington tram depot fire, 1974 Brisbane flood, Regent Theatre, Eagle Farm Airport, Queensland Maritime Museum, Cloudland, Customs House, Brisbane, Albert Bridge, Brisbane, Brisbane Ladies, Kalinga Park, Newstead House, Brisbane, 2005 Brisbane bomb hoax, Undue Subdivision of Land Prevention Act 1885, The Mayne Inheritance, Queens Gardens, Brisbane, The Mansions, Brisbane, Indooroopilly Railway Bridge, Regatta Hotel, Brisbane, List of closed Brisbane railway stations, General Post Office, Brisbane, Edenglassie. Excerpt: The first recorded regular games of Association Football (soccer) in Brisbane were played in 1884, by a group comprising mostly Scottish immigrants, at the sportsfield behind the Pineapple Hotel, Kangaroo Point. These games were conducted by the newly formed Anglo-Queensland Football Association. After a promising start, the game in Brisbane then developed erratically, hampered by the overwhelming popularity of the Rugby football codes: Rugby Union, which had commenced in Brisbane some years earlier, then Rugby League from the 1920s onwards. The game also suffered from ongoing periodic disunity, caused initially by disaffected clubs from nearby Ipswich and later by disagreements over funding of the game and payments to players. In contrast with this the game boomed in Ipswich, with clubs from that city dominating Brisbane and combined Brisbane-Ipswich competitions until around 1960. The large...