Annual scholarly lecture
The Tom Brock Lecture is an annual scholarly lecture organised by the Australian Society for Sports History at the bequest of Australian sports historian Tom Brock .[ 1] history of rugby league football . It has been given by leading writers and academics every year since 1999, at the New South Wales Rugby League 's headquarters at Phillip Street in the Sydney CBD .
David Rowe , an academic, caused some controversy when he used his 2006 lecture to question football's prospects in the future following negative off-field media coverage.[ 2] Shane Webcke was set to become the first player to give the lecture when he was invited to do so in 2007,[ 2]
In 2010, the Australian Society for Sports History and the Tom Brock Bequest Committee published Tales From Coathanger City: Ten Years of Tom Brock Lectures .[ 3] [ 3]
List of lectures
29 September 1999 - Dr Andrew Moore : Jimmy Devereux 's Yorkshire Pudding: Reflections on the origins of rugby league in New South Wales and Queensland [ 4]
30 November 2000 - Ian Heads : "Gang-gangs at one o'clock" … and Other Flights of Fancy; A Personal Journey through Rugby League [ 5]
20 September 2001 - Alex Buzo : Sydney: The Heart of Rugby League [ 6]
22 August 2002 - Alan Clarkson : The Changing Face of Rugby League [ 7]
4 July 2003 - Tony Collins : "Ahr Waggy": Harold Wagstaff and the making of Anglo-Australian rugby league culture [ 8]
22 September 2004 - Tom Keneally , AO : No more bloody bundles for Britain: The Post-World War II tours of the British and French Allies [ 9]
21 September 2005 - Roy Masters : The Great Fibro versus Silvertail Wars [ 10]
21 September 2006 - David Rowe : The Stuff of Dreams, or the Dream Stuffed? Rugby League, Media Empires, Sex Scandals, and Global Plays [ 11]
27 September 2007 - Sean Fagan : Nothing But a Nine-Day Wonder: The founding of rugby league—Australia’s first professional code [ 12] [ 13]
6 November 2008 - Lex Marinos , OAM : From a Federation Game to a League of Nations [ 3]
23 September 2009 - Terry Williams: The Lost Tribes of League – the fate of axed and merged clubs and their fans [ 3] [ 14]
23 September 2010 - John Fahey , AC : Tries and Tribulations [ 3]
15 September 2011 - Debbie Spillane 'The view from the ladies stand'
6 September 2012 - David Hill: Can Rugby League Survive the Twenty-first Century? [ 15]
18 September 2013 - Frank Puletua : The Chocolate Soldiers – The emergence of western Sydney’s new league of players [ 16]
8 October 2014 - Tom Harms: People, Stories and Meaning in Rugby League [ 17]
16 September 2015 - Ross McMullin : Retrieving Ted Larkin (1880 – 1915): Outstanding Footballer, Acclaimed Organiser, Original ANZAC [ 18]
20 September 2016 - Dean Widders : My Game, My People [ 19]
5 July 2017 - Raelene Castle ONZM Leadership insights from the National Rugby League and Australasian Sport
19 September 2018 - A panel discussion featuring Roy Masters , Tracey Holmes and Brian Canavan " How has rugby league progressed in the past 20 years? [ 20]
24 September 2019 - Braham Dabscheck ‘Big Artie’s Most Important Offload; Forty Years of the Rugby League Players’ Association’
External links
References
^ "Lessons abound in courage and defiance of past" . The Sydney Morning Herald Fairfax Media . 22 September 2004. Archived from the original on 7 November 2012. Retrieved 16 October 2010 .^ a b Rothfield, Phil ; Heads, Phillip (17 December 2006). "Webcke to speak his mind" . The Sunday Telegraph News Limited . Archived from the original on 27 September 2012. Retrieved 16 October 2010 .^ a b c d e "Tom Brock Lecture" . Australian Society for Sports History . 2 January 2011. Archived from the original on 18 February 2011. Retrieved 18 January 2011 .^ Moore, Andrew (2000). "Jimmy Devereux's Yorkshire pudding: Reflections on the Origins of Rugby League in New South Wales and Queensland" (PDF) . 1st Annual Tom Brock Lecture . Australia: Tom Brock Bequest Committee. Archived (PDF) from the original on 8 August 2012. Retrieved 17 January 2011 . ^ Heads, Ian (2001). " (PDF) . 2nd Annual Tom Brock Lecture . Australia: Tom Brock Bequest Committee. Archived (PDF) from the original on 8 August 2012. Retrieved 17 January 2011 .^ Buzo, Alex (2002). "Sydney: Heart of Rugby League" (PDF) . 3rd Annual Tom Brock Lecture . Australia: Tom Brock Bequest Committee. Archived (PDF) from the original on 8 August 2012. Retrieved 17 January 2011 .^ Clarkson, Alan (2003). "The changing face of rugby league" (PDF) . 4th Annual Tom Brock Lecture . Australia: Tom Brock Bequest Committee. Archived (PDF) from the original on 8 August 2012. Retrieved 17 January 2011 .^ Collins, Tony (2004). " (PDF) . 5th Annual Tom Brock Lecture . Australia: Tom Brock Bequest Committee. Archived (PDF) from the original on 8 August 2012. Retrieved 18 January 2011 .^ Keneally, Tom (2005). " (PDF) . 6th Annual Tom Brock Lecture . Australia: Tom Brock Bequest Committee. Archived (PDF) from the original on 8 August 2012. Retrieved 18 January 2011 .^ Masters, Roy (2006). "The Great Fibro versus Silvertail Wars' (PDF) . 7th Annual Tom Brock Lecture . Australia: Tom Brock Bequest Committee. Archived (PDF) from the original on 8 August 2012. Retrieved 18 January 2011 .^ David, Rowe (2007). "The stuff of dreams, or the dream stuffed? Rugby league, media empires, sex scandals, and global plays" (PDF) . 8th Annual Tom Brock Lecture . Australia: Tom Brock Bequest Committee. Archived (PDF) from the original on 1 January 2011. Retrieved 18 January 2011 .^ Fagan, Sean (2007). " (PDF) . 9th Annual Tom Brock Lecture . Australian Broadcasting Corporation . Archived from the original (PDF) on 20 September 2009. Retrieved 18 January 2011 .^ Fagan, Sean (23 April 2008). "2007 Tom Brock Lecture" . RL1908 . Archived from the original on 11 October 2010. Retrieved 18 January 2011 .^ Williams, Terry. "The Lost Tribes of League" (PDF) . www.tombrock.com.au . ^ "XIV Tom Brock Lecture" . tombrock.com.au . Tom Brock Bequest Committee. Retrieved 17 March 2014 .^ "XV Tom Brock Lecture" . tombrock.com.au . Tom Brock Bequest Committee. Retrieved 17 March 2014 .^ "XVI Tom Brock Lecture | Tom Brock Website" . www.tombrock.com.au . Retrieved 17 January 2017 .^ "XVII Tom Brock Lecture | Tom Brock Website" . www.tombrock.com.au . Retrieved 17 January 2017 .^ "XVIII Tom Brock Lecture | Tom Brock Website" . www.tombrock.com.au . Retrieved 17 January 2017 .^ "Rugby League Retrospective" . tombrock.com.au . The Tom Brock Bequest. Retrieved 7 October 2018 .
