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Parkside Football Club 1897/2017
Parkside great Herb Pascarl was honoured by the club with the Parkside Football Club pavilion
named after him in 1993.
A founder of western suburbs football has the Parkside Football Club pavilion named in his honor.
“The 2000 players that front up each week to play in the Footscray District Football League have a
lot to thank Herb Pascarl for.
Mr Pascarl, now 86, who lives in Gordon Street, Footscray, was one of five men who started the
League back in 1931.
He was just 23 years old and a player with the Parkside Football Club when he, well-known Footscray
barber Henry Turner, Harry Kemp, Fred Reid and Alan Shepherd (who later became a state member
of parliament) met in October 1930 to discuss the idea of a local football competition.
The FDL was formed on 10 April 1931 which was Mr Pascarl's 24th birthday.
Mr Turner, who was the first president of the FDL, had the Parkside home ground named in his
honor some years later.
Three weeks ago, the Parkside clubrooms were named the Herb E. Pascarl Pavilion in honor of the
man's 72 years of service to the club and football.
Once a Parksider, Always a Parksider
