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Topical Budget 315-1: Ladies' Football Match (1917)
 

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Title: "LADIES FOOTBALL MATCH. Girls from munition works put up a good game at the Cowlin Memorial Fund Sports".

Following the coin toss, the game commences. There is a brief interlude when a toddler picks up the ball, after which the game is played in earnest, the women wearing knee-length dark skirts.