• HISTORIANS SECTION

• WAFC, THE COACHING EVOLUTION

  By WAFC Historian – Mark CJ Beswick

  West Adelaide have given more than their fair share of champion footballers to rival clubs over the past 100 years, but perhaps, we have given just as much or more in terms of coaches.

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• KINGS OF THE NIGHT

  By WAFC Historian – Mark CJ Beswick

  After three successful night games at City Mazda Stadium, it got me to thinking about West Adelaide’s history in those pre and mid season cup games. From 1955-1993, West Adelaide played in 70 SANFL sanctioned night games and a further 8 NFL/AFC Cup games (Those games where we played sides from the VFA, VFL, WAFL, ACT etc…)

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• Article 2: WEST ADELAIDE PLAYERS DATABASE PROJECT

  By WAFC Historian – Mark CJ Beswick

  For the past fifteen years I have been collecting SANFL club annual reports and compiling statistics on all SANFL football clubs.

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• Article 3: FOOTBALL GENERATIONS & GUERNSEY NUMBERS

  By WAFC Historian – Mark CJ Beswick

  For the past four months, I have been working on a few projects with my football database. One of these projects is jersey numbers for League Players from 1914 for West Adelaide. The other project is basic genealogy of all league players 1897-2007.

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• Article 4: 1958 – 2008 "50 Years At Richmond"

  By WAFC Historian – Mark CJ Beswick

  For many years, the West Adelaide Football Club was desperate to find a home base to train and play league football.

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