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The team in the dark jerseys is likely to be Latrobe as Lang Park was their home ground during the 1930's as sub-tenants of the Queensland Soccer Council which held the main lease. The team in the lighter jerseys is Bundamba Rangers and the goalkeeper leaping for the ball is Dan Roderick. Source: www.facebook.com/photo?fbid=1714423832031355&set=basw...

The original school was opened on 6 September 1869 and was known as North National School or Mort Estate State School. The population of Toowoomba at the time was 3000. Toowoomba North Boys School opened with an enrolment of 141 boys and Toowoomba North Girls and Infants School with an enrolment of 113 students were both housed in a brick building facing Mort Street. In 1938 the present brick building was constructed and both boys' and girls' schools were amalgamated to form Toowoomba North State School. The school is one of the oldest schools on the Darling Downs and later it was to become one of the largest. Toowoomba North State School has many proud traditions and fine students have attended over the years. It is certain that many of those first pupils and their descendants have helped make Toowoomba the city it is today and others have gone on to help our country prosper. Source: toowoombanorthss.eq.edu.au/our-school/history

This photo is probably of the Brisbane FC, who played 'Victorian rules' football (now Australian rules) since their formation in 1866 (there were no known soccer clubs in Brisbane until the early 1880s) In the 1870s, all codes played with a (roughly) spherical ball - hence the soccer attribution here? Ellipsoidal balls for Australian rules and rugby came into use a little later Photographer probably Daniel Marquis