Lidcombe Waratah Junior Football Soccer Club



Lidcombe Waratah Junior Football Soccer Club

1938 -2002

In the late 1930‟s and prior to the Second World War, there were already three junior soccer Clubs in existence in the Lidcombe area. One, the Lidcombe Juniors Soccer Club was started, organised and on occasions financed by the late Alf Ashford, a bachelor of East Street, Lidcombe, with teams fielded in the Granville Districts‟ Soccer Football Association – known as the GDFSA. Two others, the Berala- Lidcombe Presbyterian Soccer Club, and the Lidcombe Congregational Soccer Club Soccer Club were both fielding teams in the Protestant Churches Football Association, and known locally as the “Liddy” Pres and “Liddy” Congs respectively.

Lidcombe juniors played their games on Lidcombe Park, which was later, renamed Coleman Park in the late 1940‟s after the late Alderman John Jospeh “Joe”. He was born at Serpentine, in Victoria and later became the Police Sergeant at the Lidcombe Precinct. The other two Clubs played their games outside Lidcombe Oval on Wyatt Park, so named after the late Alderman Edward Norman “Norm” Wyatt.

The colours of the three Clubs were:

Lidcombe juniors: green and gold quarters

Liddy Pres: all red

Liddy Congs: yellow and blue halves all with white shorts

With the onset of the war, and the difficulty of obtaining people to assist with the teams, Alf Ashford was invited to combine the Lidcombe Juniors with the Liddy Pres Club in 1941.

In that year the combined Lidcombe Juniors – Lidcombe Pres Under 14 team the youngest age group at that time in the Churches competition won the Premiership. The team was captained by Morris “Mo” Parry, who later participated fully in district sporting activities and after whom the memorial gates at Mona Park football ground were dedicated, following his untimely death from Leukemia in 1957 at the age of 29. The memorial plaque inscription reads “a true sportsman”.

The combined Clubs continued during the war years, and up until 1947 when Under 18 age players from the Liddy Congs Club came over to the Lidcombe Juniors – Liddy Pres Club was to make up a combined team, and one the Churches competition that year. Wishing to “go it alone” that team in 1948 left the combined Club and formed a new Club called the Lidcombe Dynamos, so named after the famous Moscow

Dynamos team which had created tremendous excitement in the months before when they hit the world soccer scene by defeating many of the most fashionable English Clubs during the 1947/48 soccer season in Europe. 

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