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Tom Wills (1835-1880), cricketer and pioneer of Australian…
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Melbourne
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11-Dec-2017
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Tom Wills (1835-1880), cricketer and pioneer of Australian Rules Football, A previously unrecorded photograph by Patrick Dawson, a photographer at Hamilton in Victoria's Western District. Albumen print photograph carte-de-visite, 103 x 63 mm, with photographer's blind stamp at lower left. Wills is standing in the back row, fourth from the right, wearing a striped shirt, most of the other men are in the cricket whites, William Hayman, in jacket seated in the centre of the front row, holds a cricket bat. Patrick Dawson, the photographer, was active in Hamilton between 1866 and 1868. During 1866 Wills was in the Western District recruiting and coaching Aboriginal cricketers who worked on various stations in the region. In the summer of that year he took a team of Aboriginal players to Melbourne to play a match against the Melbourne Cricket Club on Boxing Day. The players he had selected were to form the nucleus of the Aboriginal team which toured England in 1868. The present photograph has been identified as the Victorian team that played against NSW in the Intercolonial match at the MCG, December 26-30, 1867, which Victoria won by 7 wickets.
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