New History of the Geelong Football Club
Roy Hay has just completed the first chapter of a new history of the Geelong Football Club, ‘A Club is born,’ in John Murray, ed., We are Geelong: The Story of the Geelong Football Club, Geoff Slattery Enterprises, Melbourne, 2009, pp. 23-31. A copy of the longer, fully referenced version of the chapter is available from Roy Hay on request.
The book was published in July 2009 to celebrate the 150th anniversary of its foundation. The history is produced by Geoff Slattery Publications and contains chapters by Robin Grow, John Harms and many others.
History of the Atheneaum
Frances Hay is editing a new history of the Atheneaum in Melbourne, written by Susan Kruss.
New article on football and public order
Ian Warren and Roy Hay have published ‘“Fencing them in”: The A-League, Policing and the Dilemma of Public Order,’ Soccer and Society, vol. 10, no. 1 January 2009, pp. 124–141.
Go-for-your-Life Cup
The new Geelong pre-season football competition sponsored by the Victorian government and to be called the Go-for-your-Life Cup kicks off on Friday, 6 February at 6 pm at Geelong Rangers Soccer Club, Myers Reserve. The first match is between Corio and the Geelong Regional Football Association, followed at 7.20 pm by North Geelong versus Surfcoast.
The real cost of Australian sport
An article by Roy Hay on the real costs of sport is in the current issue of Ken Davidson's magazine Dissent, No. 28, Summer 2008/2009, pp. 58-60. Quite timely given the recent contribution from the taxpayer of $45.6 million to the Football Federation of Australia's bid to host the FIFA World Cup in 2018.
National Youth League
The National Youth League has resumed after a hiatus of four years. Read about the next generation of Australian players.
A Tale of two footballs: The origins of Australian Rules and Association Football revisited.
Roy Hay gave a talk to the 150 Years of Football Conference, University of Melbourne and Victoria University on 15 July 2008. He also contributed to a session on grassroots football on Writing a Club History. Powerpoint presentations of both talks are available from Sports and Editorial Services Australia.
Innovation and Enterprise
Roy Hay's launch of G A McLean, Innovation and Enterprise: A History of Backwell IXL, 1858–2008, Sampford IXL, Geelong, 2008, has appeared in the Investigator, vol. 43, no. 3, September 2008, pp. 121–123. See Archives, 8 Talks and other materials, Number 5.
Behind the Play
A new book on football has been published by Maribyrnong Press. It contains Roy Hay and Ian Warren, ‘Who supports Melbourne Victory? A preliminary inquiry into crowd make-up and dynamics in the new A-League,’ in Peter Burke and June Senyard, eds, Behind the Play: Football in Australia , Maribyrnong Press, Melbourne, 2008, pp. 239–260. For details see Publications, Other non-SESA publications or visit the website of Maribyrnong Press http://www.maribyrnongpress.com.au/
History of Bethany
SESA, through Frances Hay, has edited Susan Kruss, Bethany: Serving the Community, A Social History, 1977-2007, Bethany Community Support Inc, Geelong, 2008, which was launched by the Governor of Victoria last month.
Bethany: Serving the Community
Andrew Fisher: The Forgotten Man
SESA is pleased to announce that its latest publication is now available. Copies may be obtained from Sports and Editorial Services Australia for $25.00, plus $5.00 postage and handling.
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Edward W. Humphreys, Andrew Fisher: The Forgotten Man, Sports and Editorial Services Australia, Teesdale, Victoria, 2007.
Andrew Fisher was Prime Minister of Australia three times—1908–09, 1910–13 and 1914–15. His second government controlled both Houses of Parliament and it was, until the 1940s, Australia’s most reformist administration. In these three years, 113 Acts were placed on the statute books, thus changing the future pattern of the Commonwealth.
Despite the volume of legislation and the changes in the political life of Australia during Fisher’s ministries, no definitive full-scale biographical work on him has yet been published; only limited articles on his Federal political career have appeared. Until the 1960s most historians considered Fisher to be a bit-player, a second-ranker whose main quality was his moderating influence on the Caucus and Labor ministry. He has been the forgotten man.
Few historians have discussed Fisher’s role in the Dreadnought scare of 1909 or explored the background to his attempts to change the Constitution in order to correct the considered deficiencies in the original drafting. This book attempts to redress these omissions from historical scholarship.
Edward (Ted) William Humphreys was born in 1926 in London, England, where he qualified as a chartered accountant. Romantically, on an audit in 1955 he met Alison, an Australian-qualified accountant, and they married in 1956. From 1956 to 1971 they worked and lived in Sudan, Pakistan, India, Singapore and South-East Asia, and then transferred to Australia in November 1971. Ted retired in 1986 and, while engaged in community work, he cast around for something extra, saying, ‘I can’t play golf and can’t afford a yacht, so what else can I do?’ He began as a mature student at Monash University completing a Bachelor of Arts and continued with a Bachelor of Letters and a BA Honours degrees at Deakin University. He went on to complete his Master of Arts at the University of Melbourne. This book is based on his thesis for that degree.
Copies are available from Sports and Editorial Services. The cost is $25.00 plus $5.00 for postage and handling, if required. To obtain your copy email us at 
History of St Joseph's College, Geelong
SESA is pleased to announce that The Boys on Newtown Hill was launched at St Joseph's College on Friday, 16 November 2007.
Roy Hay and Marnie Haig-Muir, The Boys on Newtown Hill: A history of St Joseph’s College, Geelong, 1935-2007, Sports and Editorial Services Australia and St Joseph’s College, Geelong, 2007.
The book costs $35.00 plus $10.00 postage and handling. Please contact John Fitzgerald at St Joseph's College on 03-5226-8120 or <johnf@sjc.vic.edu.au> by email to obtain your copy.
Joey’s looks to future and past
St Joseph’s College looked to its future on 16 November when it opened its latest and largest teaching building on its Newtown campus, a $4.5 million science and information technology complex designed by local architects McGlashan Everist. But it also reflected on its past with the launch of a history of the College, The Boys on Newtown Hill, written by local authors Roy Hay and Marnie Haig-Muir. More than 300 old Collegians and friends attended the twin ceremony and the new building was named the St Patrick Centre. It was finished on time and on budget by Rendine Constructions.
Principal Paul Tobias pointed out that the College had not neglected its Christian Brothers’ Heritage by investing in this new building. He reflected that in 2005 he stood in a maize field in Tanzania with American Christian Brother architect Brother Frank O’Shea and contemplated a new educational construction there to which the College had pledged $US20,000. Having failed to get through to Brother O’Shea by email the previous day he enjoined the drummers in the band to send the message “The spirit of Edmund Rice connects us with our African brothers and sisters. As we celebrate tonight the opening of our building works, we also celebrate our involvement in building works recently completed in Tanzania.”
He also linked the new building and the College history noting that when excavations began rock was found where it was not expected. This resulted in some expenditure from the contingency fund, but as the architects Max Gurrie and Ian Bentley told him “that building won’t be disappearing down the hill because the foundations are literally rock solid.” The history deals with these foundations and finds them solid.
There has been an educational foundation on Newtown Hill since the 1850s and it was the site of St Augustine’s Orphanage which was run by the Christian Brothers from 1878 until it moved to Highton in 1939. A previous St Joseph’s College existed briefly from 1890 to 1893 when it was closed and the parents of the boarding students were requested to transfer them to St Patrick’s College in Ballarat. The current St Joseph’s College was founded in 1935 with an initial enrolment of 128 students. In 2007 it has 1300.
Since its re-foundation the school has turned out a host of fine human beings, scholars, jurists, military men, sports stars and artists of many kinds. The College has imbued them all with the spirit of Edmund Rice, the founder of the Christian Brothers, who believed that education, faith, compassion and a strong social conscience were the keys to the contribution which they could make to society in later life.
Roy Hay reflected that in researching the history he and his co-author had come across former St Joseph’s students all over the world. And they continue to make history. Since the book was completed in August, Jimmy Bartel has won the Brownlow and he, Cameron Ling and Matthew Scarlett helped Geelong to its first Premiership in 44 years.
There is an excellent review of the book by Peter Mansfield in The Investigator, the magazine of the Geelong Historical Society for March 2008, p. 43. He concludes, 'The Boys on Newtown Hill: A History of St Joseph's College, Geelong is a wonderful achievement and an important addition to your library and our history.'
Shaking up the universities
Happy and upwardly mobile
Lifting the bar
Battle of carrot versus stick
New ways in history
The gaffer still going 50 years on
Flagging the fans offside
Fussball und Frankfurters
Clubs that are no longer with us Hakoah
FFA wakes up to its history
Read Roy Hay's 'Blast from the Past' column in Goal Weekly, edited by Costa Koutropoulos. http://www.goalweekly.com
Roy Hay, Tony Joel, Tonci Prusac, Steve Radojevic and many others, 'Fans, hyphenated fans and the World Cup 2006', paper to the XVI Sporting Traditions Conference, Canberra, June 2007. Copies available from SESA.
Joe Madunic and Dennis at the World Cup in their Australian-Croatian tops. Photo: Joe Madunic.
Roy Hay and Tony Joel, ‘Football’s World Cup and its fans—reflections on national styles: A photo essay on Germany 2006,’ Soccer and Society, vol. 8, no. 1, January 2007, pp. 1–32.
Roy Hay and Heath McDonald, ‘A Victory for the fans? Melbourne’s new football club in historical perspective,’ Soccer and Society, vol 8, 2/3, April/June 2007, pp. 297–314.Roy Hay, review essay on Boria Majumdar and Kausik Bandyopadhyay, Striving to Score: A Social History of Indian Football, Routledge, London, 2006. Soccer and Society, 7, no. 4, October 2006, pp. 520–26.
Roy Hay, ‘Approaches to Sports History: Theory and Practice,’ comprising review essay on Douglas Booth, The Field: Truth and Fiction in Sport History, Routledge, Abingdon, Oxford, 2005, and Adrian Harvey, Football: The First Hundred Years: The Untold Story, Routledge, London, 2005, Sporting Traditions, Vol 22, No. 2, May 2006, pp. 70–81.
Previous Publications
Green Gully Soccer Club: 50 years by Peter Desira with Richard Curmi, has beenpublished by SESA in association with the Green Gully Soccer Club. The book records the history of the leading Premier League club and tells the story of the players, officials and supporters who have taken it to multiple championships and cups over the years.
The book was officially launched on 16 December 2006 by former Socceroo and football legend Jimmy Rooney, seen here (left) with club president Charles Farrugia. Copies are available from the club, from SESA and from Melbourne Sports Books. For further details click the link below.
Green Gully Soccer Club: 50 years
Reviews of Green Gully Soccer Club: 50 Years
Author Peter Desira (left) and President of Green Gully Soccer Club, Charles Farrugia, at the Victoria Community History Awards, 30 June 2006.
The World Game Downunder
Bill Murray and Roy Hay (eds) The World Game Downunder, Australian Society for Sports History, ASSH Studies no. 19, Melbourne, 2006, has been published and is available from the Society at www.sporthistory.org.
‘The World Game’, association football, gained huge exposure in Australia with a triple revolution in 2005–06, following years of struggle for recognition and acceptance: qualification for the World Cup finals in Germany in June 2006; the successful launch of a reformed national competition, the A-League; and acceptance into the Asian Football Confederation gave the game a huge boost in public awareness, media interest and commercial involvement. This study of football in Australia since the 1880s puts the modern evolution of the game into context by discovering or rediscovering the pioneering links with other football-playing countries and the domestic developments which led to the current state of play.
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History of the Geelong Chamber of Commerce
The history of the Geelong Chamber of Commerce published by the Chamber and SESA is now available. For details click the following link.
History of Geelong Chamber of Commerce
Football Fever 2006 Conference
The conference was held at Victoria University, 295 Queen Street, Melbourne, Monday 25 September 2006 and saw the launch of Matthew Nicholson, Rob Hess and Bob Stewart, eds, Football Fever: Moving the Goalposts, Maribyrnong Press, Melbourne, 2006, which has Roy Hay's chapter on 'Fan culture in Australian football (soccer): From ethnic to mainstream?' At the conference Roy Hay presented 'The Football World Cup and its fans: A cross-country comparison of responses in Germany, Australia and Scotland. This is a product of research being conducted with Tony Joel of Deakin University. A version of the paper appeared in Soccer and Society in January 2007.
Some of the illustrations from the paper can be found in Archives under Photographs. Click the link below.
Football Fever: Moving the Goalposts
Work, Ethics, Values
Shaun Cannon, ed., Work, Ethics, Values: Perceptions on Labouring Ideals in the Century Ahead, Melbourne Catholic Commission for Justice, Development and Peace, East Melbourne, 2006.has just been published. The book contains essays by Roy Hay, Keith Abbott, David Birch, Lindsay Dawson, Peter Kelly, Bruce Bonyhady, James Macken, Helen Szoke and Benjamin Rice. Available from the Commission, PO Box 146, East Melbourne, Victoria, 3002, Australia.
‘Cathie, 92, is in print again,’
If you think SESA and its partners have something to live up to then this piece might help explain. Frances Hay's mother's latest book has been recognised in the Ross-Shire Journal in Dingwall, Scotland. Unfortunately this turned out to be her last book as she died in 2007.
Industrialisation and urbanisation in Scotland, 1700-2000
by Roy Hay
A lecture originally given to a Scottish history class at the University of Melbourne convened by Bill Anderson and Professor Stuart Macintyre in 2004 and 2006 is now available in the Archives/Talks and other material page of this website. A hard copy including the illustrations is available on request from SESA.
To see a PDF file version click the following link.
Industrialisation in Scotland 1700-2000
Social history
A talk by Roy Hay to a Deakin University postgraduate seminar on the subject of social history has been added to the talks and other materials sub-section of the Archives.
Origins of Australian Rules Football
An article on the origins of Australian Rules Football which appeared in the Geelong Advertiser, 6 November 2004, p. 37 and the gist of which appeared in Australian Football Quarterly, 3, Autumn 2005, pp. 143-44, is now available on the website in Archives/Journalism.
Origins of Australian Rules Football
Victorian Premier League 1991-2006: A short history
A short history of the Victorian Premier League prepared by Roy Hay for the Football Federation of Victoria Media Guide for 2006 can be found on the website.
Victorian Premier League 1991-2006: A short history
Third Century 21 Cup for 2008 kicks off
Century 21 Geelong Community Shield 2008
Century 21 Geelong Community Shield 2007
Century 21 Geelong Community Shield 2006
Geelong soccer history
Roy Hay's articles on soccer in Geelong between the Wars and since the War which were published in the Investigator in 1994 are now available on the website in the Archives section. They appear here by kind permission of the Geelong Historical Society which publishes the Investigator four times a year. For details see the Society's website which can be found on the links page of this site.
Geelong soccer between the Wars
Jennifer Kloester, Georgette Heyer's Regency World, Random House, London, 2005.
Random House has annoucned that it is reprinting Jennifer Kloester's Georgette Heyer's Regency World. The book has sold over 1,000 copies in Australia alone.
Postcard of Teesdale available