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23.01.2022 John Dwyer (Q) on the cover of the 1956 OG special issue of the Circle

23.01.2022 Patsy Palmer on hearing of her selection in the 1936 AAWHA squad.

22.01.2022 Sophie Taylor and Rachael Lynch joined WA Premier and other celebrities to show cricket skills at last night's Boundaries 4 Bushfire Appeal game:

21.01.2022 Jim Irvine recently posted this photograph of four goal scoring hockey heroes. Can you identify the match? And the rest of the team? I will give you one day!

21.01.2022 Hi! We are saddened to note the passing of Pat Haigh ( Murphy)! Patricia was the 143rd player to represent Australia and the 21st player selected for the State of South Australia. Patricia made her playing debut for Australia on Wednesdays 30 September 1953 against England. She played a total of 9 internationals and scored one goal against Austria in Folkestone. Pat Haigh played in every match at the tournament, first at left inner, then right inner and finally at left wing. Her play so impressed Marjorie Pollard, publisher of All England Women's Hockey Association monthly magazine Hockey Field, that Pat was one of the four Australians named in the magazines "World Team". She was selected as left wing.

20.01.2022 Hockey India is happy to support Australia amidst the wild fires by donating $US 25,000 and providing four playing signed Indian Mens and Womens jerseys to auction. All proceeds to go to the cause. Standing in solidarity with Hockey Australia. Thanks Hockey India!

19.01.2022 After unearthing this article I was forced to make yet another change to the list of brothers who have payed hockey for Australia!

19.01.2022 First mixed gender umpiring team at an international hockey game in Auckland February 2020

19.01.2022 We are sorry to note the passing of Ben Acton. Here are some glimpses of his hockey career:

17.01.2022 I have been looking closely at the 1936 IFWHA tournament in Philadelphia because a member of my club was originally to make the trip.

17.01.2022 Some pro league results to date, in case you missed them:

15.01.2022 This story has a tenuous connection, but there is bugger all else happening in hockey! The current British PM recovered from the Virus in St Thomas's Hospital, the same hospital where former Australian Hockey Player, Barbara Thomas was working when she was killed during an air raid in 1940! Barbara, was a Sydney girl, and educated at the Presbyterian Ladies College, Pymble and at Sydney University. 'As a hockey player she visited Queensland with the NSW side. She went to Lo...ndon in 1930 as a member of the Australian women's hockey team, the first to tour overseas. She remained to study massage at St. Thomas's Hospital, where she had a distinguished student career. She joined the staff of the hospital and became chief demonstrator in the Department of Physiotherapy. Barbara revisited Australia in 1938 but subsequently returned to London, where her work on behalf of the mothers of the community made her locally famous. A further evening raid on Monday September 10 prevented rescue squads saving the life of Nurse Barbara Mortimer Thomas, aged 32, of Pymble, Sydney, who was imprisoned all day in the wreckage of the nurses' wing at the London hospital. Six nurses were buried early in the morning when a bomb demolished that wing of St Thomas's hospital.

14.01.2022 Former Hockeyroo achieves cricket success today with WA National One Day Cricket Champions!

13.01.2022 The story behind Jim Irvine's photograph:

12.01.2022 Aug. 10, 2012, Members of the Australian women's field hockey team celebrate scoring a second-half penalty against China during their classification match. Australia won 2-0 to finish fifth in the 12-team tournament.

12.01.2022 With the postponement of games due to health caution over virus alerts, and the uneven number of games played by each country, we may have to revert to the percentage system of comparing the performance of competing countries:

11.01.2022 Congratulations to Katrina Powell on her appointment as head coach of the Hockeyroos! Initially national teams traveled without a designated coach. Probably the captain alone, or together with the manager dealt with motivation and player rotation issues. Who else has coached the top Australian Women's hockey team since then?

11.01.2022 Australia v NZ, Adelaide 1950. Ben Acton's Debut. Ben on right hand end of 3rd row!

10.01.2022 Some significant milestones were achieved during this weekend's Pro League matches. Congratulations:

09.01.2022 Well done Rosie! Seems to have 'slipped under the radar' so far!

09.01.2022 Debutant Kurt Lovett (HA # 431) appeared to have marked his international career with a goal as the final siren sounded. To the crowds disappointment, the goal was disallowed on review to deny the fairy tale moment for the local, but even that could not take the gloss off an impressive Kookaburras performance. Despite his goal being ruled out, a jubilant Lovett was all smiles after the game with his family making the five hour drive from Parkes to watch him. I knew it wasnt a goal straight away. I heard the hooter go and knew it went in after that, said Lovett.

09.01.2022 Congratulations Colin Batch! FIH Coach of 2019!

09.01.2022 Australian Hockey Team v NZ in Sydney 1954, Ben Acton front row right!

08.01.2022 Between 1924 and 1952 the Australian Hockey Association (Men) conducted an annual competition between the state associations for the Noall Shield. Persistent inquiries from Stan Salazar, well known WA hockey ephemerist, prompted me to look further into this keenly contested award. I think it was a shield donated by William Noall, hence the name. William was a member of a prominent Victorian family of stockbrokers who attended Brighton Grammar School and later played hockey fo...r Victoria in interstate competitions. He joined the AIF and is shown in this 1915 photo on the extreme left of the group sitting. He ended as a Lieutenant in the Australian Army Service corp and was Mentioned in Dispatches. He enjoyed cricket and was a prominent Bridge exponent publishing several books on the card game. William Noall was born in 1890, in South Yarra, Victoria, Australia, He died on 21 June 1964, in Toorak, Victoria, Australia, at the age of 74.

06.01.2022 We noted the recent passing of Patricia Martinson (nee Palmer) (HA# 89) aged 103! Proof that playing hockey helps your longevity! Here are some glimpses of Patsy's life in hockey. Patsy was selected in two Blue Ribbon teams for Australia in 1936 and 1938. The Blue Ribbon team in 1936 included 5 super stars of Australian womens hockey in that era May Campbell, Ena McRae, Connie Charlesworth, Merle Taylor and Mabel Cashmore all of whom are in the Hockey Australia Hall of Fame. The Blue Ribbon team was prestigious and was made up of the best players from the national championships. We would now describe it as a virtual team. It was created because the opportunity for international representation was rare as it was funded by the player themselves and leave from work difficult. Patsy is #89 in the final photo of a strong 1939 WA team.

06.01.2022 The 1930s equivalent of the Hockeyroos was the All Australian Women's Hockey Association 1930 Touring Team. Here are some images of the long tour. So long that I believe some players had to get jobs in England to keep going. Barbara Thomas, a member of this team, was a highly qualified nurse who returned to the UK and worked in a London Hospital for some years, She was tragically killed when the hospital, ironically, St Thomas's, was bombed during the Blitz!

05.01.2022 Hockeyroos not going to China. Revised fixtures are:

05.01.2022 AAWHA Team prior to their match at White City, London, v a very strong England. Result - a 1-1 draw!

04.01.2022 Our first Men's International against India didn't end well! We were thrashed 12-1! Two brothers, Dhyan Chand (9) and Roop Singh (3) scored all of India's goals!

04.01.2022 WAHA A1 Grand Final 1969 at the WACA ground, East Perth. Old Modernians 2 v Cricketers 0. Several Australian players involved - Richard Aggiss and Bryan Rourke for Mods and Bob Andrew, Ric Charlesworth and Laurie Bedford for Cricketers in white shorts. Merv Adams limping across the field at half time!

03.01.2022 Not much of a photo of debutant Kurt Lovett celebrating! The goal was later disallowed!

03.01.2022 As Lee pointed out, I overlooked the Govers brothers in my initial survey.!

02.01.2022 Australia do a lap of honour after a 1-1 draw with England at What City athletic stadium, the game being transferred from the preferred Wembley Stadium.

01.01.2022 Mitch at Hockey Australia has recently up loaded the most recent version of the HA History spreadsheets on the HA Website: In addition we have added team lists of the Blue Riband (Virtual) All Australian Women's Teams selected by the AAWHA after each state championship.