The article below appeared in Brisbane’s Courier Mail about our old mate Ivan recently….. Alan Webb
For the record Leo went out on a winning note when North Sydney beat Balmain 15-13 in the last round of 1971. Thanks to Tony Lewis for the newspaper article…. Scott
Whilst at Ettalong last Saturday, an unusual meeting of yesteryear was spoken about by one of our more recent old mates, Richie Powell. Richie spoke of the time the former undisputed and undefeated world heavyweight boxing champion, none other than the great Rocky Marciano, came along to one of South Sydney’s first grade training sessions […]
Historically Paddo Tech has a close affinity with Chelsea Rugby League, due to the number of students who attended Paddo Tech who went on to play for our great club. The material for this article was made available by the Rugby League Museum historian Terry Williams. See whose name you can spot… The ten pages […]
One of the most talked about items on the website was initially placed on the website in January, and when the opportunity came for a reuniting of the old warhorses from exactly 50 years ago at the 50th anniversary celebration of the 1963 Wests v Saints grand final at the rugby league museum, I […]
In the early years of the 20th Century many junior teams had nicknames which would seem incongruous one hundred years later. Whilst many clubs today adopt the monikers of NRL teams many of the early rugby league clubs used nationalistic symbols to represent their clubs (eg Millers Point Kia Ora). Apart from South Sydney Federals, […]
Leslie Skelsey A TOUCH OF SOUTH SYDNEY RUGBY LEAGUE HISTORY LESLIE SKELSEY CAPTAIN OF SOUTH SYDNEY FEDERALS 2nd GRADE PREMIERS 1912 & 1913 (INFORMATION SUPPLIED BY LESLIE’S SON, KEVIN SKELSEY) WRITTEN BY KEN VESSEY Leslie SKELSEY was born in 1889 and lived in Walker Street, Redfern which is a stone’s throw away from the […]
Bob Burns (aka Fishy) A STORY OF COURAGE and DETERMINATION AGAINST ALL ODDS Hi , I am Ken Vessey and it is with great pleasure that I put pen to paper to detail some of the interesting life,to date, of one of our Chelsea Old Mates Robert Burns (aka Fishy),who many of you […]
One game at Mascot oval we decided to make Lee the captain for the day (we were not the best side at the time) Barry Bieber was coach at the time and he really did not care to much! Lee led us out to face Mascot undefeated at the time. Our captain had a […]
Chelsea Old Mates article on Noel Kellys Kids website Please click the Noel Kellys Kids banner above to go to Tony’s article Tony Lewis the webmaster of the Noel Kellys Kids website attended our final Old Mates Day for 2012 at Erko Thursday 6th December. This was the result of an invitation from Ken […]