Twenty year old James Smith Pearce of the Kapunda Football Club. His position is given as 3rd man forward and right wing. The second son of Hon. James Pearce, he was born in 1859 at Gawler and died in 1929 at Kapunda. He was a correspondent for the Register newspaper.

On Wednesday 18 April 1866 a public meeting was held in the North Kapunda Hotel for the purpose of forming a football club. It was unanimously resolved that a club be formed and called 'The Kapunda Football Club'. 

Originally bedecked in blue and white, the Kapunda Football Club later adopted red and black as their club colours.

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