Women's football started with sell-out crowds in the 1920s, only to be banned a year later. Through five decades of darkness, football's pioneers carried the torch for future generations.
Women's football started with sell-out crowds, only to be banned across the world. The sport finally found its feet 50 years later, after some desperately dark days.
A few girls wore shorts and shirts, and one affected a smart black bow-tie at the collar of her silk shirt. A few woollen jumpers were worn on top of bloomers, and handkerchiefs or bathing caps kept troublesome tresses within bounds. They are all different shapes and sizes and ages, wearing an array of unsuitable outfits for the occasion.
Ten days before this trial, more than 30 women showed up to a meeting held by the Metropolitan Football Association – an organisation that focused entirely on the men's game – to consider whether to form a women's association in Sydney. The QLSA would be chaired by Mr. R.J. Powell, an early women's football ally who had helped found the Latrobe Ladies' Soccer Club in Queensland earlier that year.
Not only did this meeting formalise the first women's association, it was also the place where the idea to host the first official women's game was first floated, with Betts selected as the first coach. Then, in the second half, 16-year-old Jean Campbell — the captain of the Reds — poked a penalty kick past the South Brisbane goalkeeper, dressed in scratchy navy blue.The game finished 2-0 to North Brisbane.
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