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Parkside Football Club 1897/2017

Changi Plaque

Despite the war that has raged in the world for 3 years which saw huge national sacrifices, the game
of Australian Rules football have evolved and strengthened.

Argus (Melbourne) wrote in April 1943,

FOOTBALL RULES DISCUSSED

“Several general rules of umpiring were discussed by VFL Permits and Umpires' Committee at its
meeting last night, and views of the committee and its interpretations of the laws governing
umpiring were put before 12 VFL umpires.

Mr F. O'Brien, chairman of the Permits and Umpires' Committee, said the umpires had been called
together to discuss several rules which appeared to have been deviated from last season, especially
those which governed holding the manholding the ball. It was felt, he said, that no free kick should be
given if the player was making a genuine effort to kick the ball on, and that a player should be given
reasonable time to get rid of the ball. Mr O'Brien also directed umpires' attention to the rule
governing slinging, which, he said, was the act of catching a player by or around the neck and
throwing him or attempting to throw him to the ground. "By the neck" included the neck and top of
the shoulder, and not by the arm or below the top of the shoulder.

A suggestion made bj' Mr H. Clover (Carlton), a member of the committee, that there should be
greater co-operation between players and the umpire was also discussed.

Permits were granted to the fol-lowing players: To Collingwood: W. Duckworth (Parkside Amateurs)
and M. Harvey (Collingwood Seconds).

The committee also discussed a ruling that any player who during the 1943 football season
transferred from the League club which was eliminated from the competition at the end of the 11th
round should not be permitted to return to the League club from which he had transferred before the
end of the 1944 football season. This motion was agreed to, and will be submitted to the next
general meeting of the VFL.”

Argus, Thursday 22 April 1943, page 9

For some prisoner-of-war, a football game meant more to them than anyone can imagine . This
incredible and touching story of a soldiers love for the game, endurance and loyalty to his beloved
RichmondFootball Club, was published in July 2015 in Bussines Insider Australia.

“Sotheby’s Australia has an incredible piece of World War II history coming up for auction later this
month: an Australian Rules “premiers trophy plaque” declaring Richmond as the winners of the 1942
premiership – at Changi POW camp.

Once a Parksider, Always a Parksider