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Aboriginal Sporting Heroes single work   poetry   "Idolised these great sportsmen"
Issue Details: First known date: 1998... 1998 Aboriginal Sporting Heroes
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    y separately published work icon Koori Mail no. 169 11 February 1998 6828172 1998 newspaper issue 1998 pg. 7
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    (A list of those admired)

    Eddie Gilbert - Fast bowler

    Bennelong - One of the first Aboriginal cricket players to go to England

    Graham (Polly) Farmer - Aussie Rules

    Ella Brothers (Glen, Gary and Mark) - Rugby Union

    Lionel Morgan, Chicka Ferguson, Steve Ella - Rugby League

    Ron Richards, Elly Bennet, Lionel Rose, Dave, Ritchie and Clem Sands, Alf Russell, Ron Richards Jeff Dynver - Boxing

    Evonne Goolagong - Tennis

    Darby McCarthy - Racing

    Cathy Freeman - Running
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