Press reports hinted that royalty would attend the Pioneer Exhibition Game at Queen's Club in London, but the Prince of Wales was actually overseas in France that day.
The game featured 36 servicemen on a restricted field, raising money for the British and French Red Cross.
War and society
At the Anzac exhibition match at Queen's Club in London, a spectator asked a fumbling player whether he thought the ball was a bomb, in a game with a colonel playing in defence and a chaplain captaining the other side.
The Times reporter noted the crowd's heckling was mostly about the military history of the teams.
Oddities
Grand Final
SANFL · Adelaide Oval · crowd 28,500
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Richmond, 74 games (2020-2026)
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