Off to the football
Includes footage of a family leaving for a football game; Queenstown Church of Christ Football Club playing an unknown opponent at Alberton Oval. Another match is shown, probably at the Mitcham Reserve, against (possibly) a Burnside team.
Queenstown Church of Christ Football Club played in the United Church Football Association and were premiers in the year this footage was taken.
The United Church Football Association, later known as the United Church Football League, was established in 1906 (Bloch, p. 358). Queenstown had quite a successful run during the 1920s and 1930s.
The League folded in 1977 and became the Adelaide and Suburban Football Association.
William Charles Brooker was born in 1875; studied medicine for four years but didn't finish his degree. The turning point in his life came when his seven year old son was seriously injured in a tram accident. The tram driver had told him to jump off, but the tram was moving and he fell under the wheels and his knee was crushed. Doctors advised Brooker his son's life was endangered; Brooker got a whole prayer-team praying for his son and offered a life-time of ministry if his son was saved; the son had a miraculous recovery, walking again and living to his 90s.
In 1905 Pastor Brooker took up full-time duties with the Queenstown Church of Christ in which he had previously acted in a part-time capacity; he acted as liaison officer between strikers and shipping employers during the big waterfront hold-up in 1928; worked untiringly during the depression years to get wood and other comforts for people in difficult circumstances; was president of the Churches of Christ during WWII; was an evangelist in many country and suburban tent missions; was noted for hundreds of lantern lectures on a variety of subjects; travelled through South Australia, Victoria, Western Australia and Tasmania, taking many lantern slides himself and purchasing others; was actively associated with church sporting bodies. He died on 24th March 1947.
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