SA Footy

Has anybody bought a paperback from Lulu.com?
http://www.lulu.com/browse/search.php?f ... n+football

Not yet. But i've seen a sample of the work and it is excellent. They are being done a sometime poster ,and his research is very thorough.

South Australian Football publishing milestone.
I am pleased to announce that I have completed a personal publishing goal of producing books for every one of the South Australian Football Association seasons from 1877-1906. It has been a five year project with lots of stops and starts and it is rewarding to have finally achieved this project. They are available from the Lulu self publishing website.

http://www.lulu.com/spotlight/southaustralianfootball

The task of researching and publishing the records and statistics of South Australia’s early football history was an extensive and long standing task for me.

The early years of Association football in South Australia have been little published. They should be recognised as the foundation years of football in South Australia. In many publications, 1907 is indicated as the commencement of records and statistics due to the formation of the South Australian Football League. This series of publications is the result of my research to collect and collate the statistics and records that were achieved in the first 30 years of organised football competition in South Australia.

These important seasons established Australian Rules football as an integral part of the sporting landscape of South Australia. As I have researched, it has became very clear, that the passion and fervour we experience now as players and followers of the game, was familiar to those connected with the game in this foundation era. The features of the game, attendances and interest in the game, made football a very significant feature of the sporting community of Adelaide and South Australia at the time.

It is my hope that these publications make an addition to the documentation of these significant early years of football in South Australia.

Well done Trev.
First things I'll buy when I get a job.

Ive got some of the books

1 word 'awesome'

oldtimer2 wrote:South Australian Football publishing milestone.
I am pleased to announce that I have completed a personal publishing goal of producing books for every one of the South Australian Football Association seasons from 1877-1906. It has been a five year project with lots of stops and starts and it is rewarding to have finally achieved this project. They are available from the Lulu self publishing website.

http://www.lulu.com/spotlight/southaustralianfootball

The task of researching and publishing the records and statistics of South Australia’s early football history was an extensive and long standing task for me.

The early years of Association football in South Australia have been little published. They should be recognised as the foundation years of football in South Australia. In many publications, 1907 is indicated as the commencement of records and statistics due to the formation of the South Australian Football League. This series of publications is the result of my research to collect and collate the statistics and records that were achieved in the first 30 years of organised football competition in South Australia.

These important seasons established Australian Rules football as an integral part of the sporting landscape of South Australia. As I have researched, it has became very clear, that the passion and fervour we experience now as players and followers of the game, was familiar to those connected with the game in this foundation era. The features of the game, attendances and interest in the game, made football a very significant feature of the sporting community of Adelaide and South Australia at the time.

It is my hope that these publications make an addition to the documentation of these significant early years of football in South Australia.

I can't tell you how happy I am to have found the lulu website and the work of Trevor Gyss. I am soooo happy for what you have done. You sir are a legend! I have researched the 1877 and 1878 Seasons through the SA Register. I too want to research the period of the SAFA 1877-1906. You have done so much work and I will buy what I can to help my research too. You have done a wonderful thing, and made peoples research into this era much easier.

I have also done research on the clubs known by the Adelaide name from 1860-1894. I would like to compliment other people's research on this combination of clubs and add to the research done.

Like any subject their is scope for more than one publication on this era of SA footy, but people like me will be indebted to you for all your hard work and inspiration. It also free's a part of my time to research another gem, the History of Kensington Oval from the 1860's through to today.

Again bravo

If your interested in Pre 1897 football I recommend Trevors work - I have them all & he has gone over and above what I thought the contents would be.

another book to get is that by Mark Penning's containing every result in Victoria 1858-1876

JamesH wrote:If your interested in Pre 1897 football I recommend Trevors work - I have them all & he has gone over and above what I thought the contents would be.

another book to get is that by Mark Penning's containing every result in Victoria 1858-1876

http://www.connorcourt.com/catalog1/ind ... cts_id=213

Here is the link to this book.

I pray that one day someone will do an SANFL equivalent.

Mark may have something in the pipeline regarding SANFL

Now available is an ebook of 1877-1906 South Australian Football Association Match Summaries
Here is the link to the eBook, 1877-1906 South Australian Football Association Match Summaries http://www.lulu.com/content/e-book/1877 ... s/14079463

I have purchased the 1877/1878 books
Very good publications
I cannot praise Trevor enough
The books are now a pride of mine

Here is a description of my latest book , The story of South Adelaide's first SAFA premiership in 1877

http://australianfootball.com/articles/ ... 2Bflag/923

An article about my latest research

https://southaustralianfootballhistory. ... ason-1915/

Here is a link to the descriptions of my research for the Premiership anniversary seasons of 1915, 1925, 1935, 1945 and 1955

https://southaustralianfootballhistory.wordpress.com/

Links to some of my latest research publications.

http://www.lulu.com/shop/trevor-gyss/au ... 93873.html

https://southaustralianfootballhistory. ... 9-to-1969/

http://www.lulu.com/shop/trevor-gyss/ul ... 13344.html

http://www.lulu.com/shop/trevor-gyss/so ... 13338.html


The following link is a list of South Australian Interstate team matches for which I am seeking team photographs. Any assistance would be much appreciated

https://southaustralianfootballhistory. ... otographs/

Latest publishing effort to coincide with SANFL 140th exhibition

Notable Events in South Australian Football History

https://southaustralianfootballhistory. ... l-history/