Plays of the Past

By Rohan Aldous

Jul 1, 2024

Bomber Oliver Boyd launches himself for this attempted mark despite the best effort of his Tongala opponent.

2005

Kyabram is looking at playing in the Goulburn Valley League senior finals after a substantial win over neighbouring rival Tongala.

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Rochester’s loss at Seymour sent the Tigers from the six, with Kyabram taking over on percentage.

Tongala’s key forwards Adrian Baker and Brendan White kicked three goals each, but they were hard-earned.

In contrast, the Bombers gained five goals from Heath Barnett and four from full forward Paul Newman.

Sam Nelson has fully recovered from his collarbone break and is off to Sydney with the Victorian Country soccer team.

– Multi-talented Kyabram teenage sportsman Sam Nelson is off to Sydney in the September school holidays with the Victorian Country soccer team.

Nelson has capped off an eventful sporting year with selection in the under-16 team to contest the national titles despite not playing club soccer this year.

He will be joined in the team by former Tatura teammates Adrian Corbo and Spiro Vourgaslis. Fellow GV boys Sam Grasso and Jean-Luc Giuca will also be off to the titles.

– Kyabram Football Club senior coach Mark Adamson has been re-appointed for next season.

Club president Peter Nelson announced the appointment, saying the Bombers were very pleased to be able to continue with Adamson as coach.

– Kyabram Lawn Tennis Club will be one of the teams forming a revived Goulburn Valley inter-town tennis competition.

The organising committee also hopes to receive confirmation from Stanhope and a team from either Echuca or Rich River.

Both Kyabram and Stanhope were inaugural and often successful members of the Goulburn Valley Lawn Tennis Association, which went into recess last summer.

Many former GVLTA players want to return to and build up the best possible standard competition.

– The Privilege Cup is sponsored by Sinclair Knight Mertz and gives the winner the opportunity to ask members to fill the mug once in the month.

Some winners make more use of that than others who may be a tad reluctant to front another member, but that will not be the case this month as the winner is Terry O’Brien with 40 stableford points.

Terry is anything but a shrinking violet and will extract full benefit from his win, while golfing partner Graham McIntosh looks like doing all the driving to and from Bendigo for the next few weeks.

1985

Kyabram Football Club secretary John Davy pins the Kyabram Football Club life membership medallion on Bob Vick. Also pictured is Herb Prior and Cam Macdermid.

Kyabram Football Club and the GVL recognised two great Bombers of the past during the club’s reunion.

Star defenders Bob Vick and Herb Prior, who thrilled Kyabram fans in the late ’40s and ’50s, received life memberships to the Kyabram Football Club and the GVL for their feat of playing 200 senior games with the Bombers.

The tally of games automatically qualifies players for life membership of the Kyabram club and GVL.

Testing out new footballs are Sacred Heart football coach Grant Fitzgerald, Tatura Primary School team captain Ross Wildes, Tatura Football Club president Gerry Beard and Tatura Primary School team coach Ben Dyett.

– As part of the Tatura Football Club’s promotion of junior football in the region, a number of footballs were presented to Tatura Primary School and Sacred Heart last week.

Football club president Gerry Beard said at a time when violence was becoming prevalent in junior football, the Tatura club felt it was important to concentrate on football skills among juniors and not on how important it was to win.

The Tatura Schoolgirls netball team that won its way through to the Victorian Schoolgirls’ Championship finals in Melbourne are Kylie Mateussen, Tammy Maidment, Amanda Collison, Paula Smith, Teresa Stanton, Tahlene Warburton, Belinda Telford and Louise Normington.

– The Tatura Italian Social Club hosted the North Eastern Bocce Doubles Association tournament with players coming from Cobram, Kyabram and Shepparton.

Winners included P. DiPetta and Gino Polvre.

1975

Keith Hindson congratulates Tatura’s Robert Meda, the best-and-fairest player in the KDJFA Under-15 section.

Tatura’s Robert Meda and Chris Ford from Haslem St were announced the medal winners for the Kyabram District Junior Football Association after the vote count.

Meda won the W.K. Hindson medal for the best-and-fairest player in the under-15 section.

He polled 21 votes, including six “best-on-the-ground” performances.

Runner-up was Tongala’s John Wallis, the winner of last year’s under-13 medal.

Others to feature in the voting were Peter Hansford from Tatura with 15, Noel O’Donnell from Youth Club with 14, along with Peter Tucker from High School and Brendan Primmer from Tongala with 13 votes.

District Carpet Bowls pairs champions Joe and Chas Waite.

– Father-son combinations fought out the final of the district pairs carpet bowls championship at Stanhope.

Joe and Charlie Waite defeated another Kyabram pair Fred and Allan Williams 15-14 in a real edge-of-the-seat finish to take the title on the last end.

Mother and son combination Margaret and Phillip Tucker.

– The mother and son combination of Margaret and Phillip Tucker brought off a double in the North Central Zone Victorian country squash championships at Ballarat.

Margaret won the ladies C-grade title, while Phillip, 15, won the men’s D-grade championship. Both are keen members and prominent players in the Kyabram Squash Club.