Going through the Otago Daily times to stitch together Dunedin football history and figure I'll start this to share my findings and so others can jump in with their own information.
1888
Northern AFC are founded on Wednesday 11th of April, 1888
Southern AFC are founded on Thursday 12th of April, 1888
Wakari AFC are founded on Thursday 28th of June, 1888
Thistle I will have to come back too
Northern and Southern play three games, all ending, 3-0, 1-0 and 1-0 all in favour of Southern
Northern and Wakari play three games, the first ending 3-1 to Wakari and the other two going unrecorded
Southern and Wakari play each other twice but neither were recorded.
Wakari play home and away to Thistle (Now comfirmed Dunedin), to which Thistle win the first leg 5-2 then Wakari win the second leg 7-2
Three other games were played but were played against non-club sides
There were also a number of scratch matches between Captain and Vice-Captain of the same club but didn't bother recording those
There was a request sent to Auckland for one of their 6 clubs (at the time) to come down but nothing seemed to come of it
STANDINGS
Southern - 3 wins
Wakari - 2 wins 1 loss
Thistle - 1 win 1 loss
Northern 4 losses
No champion was crowned since there wasn't a league set up
Northern AFC are founded on Wednesday 11th of April, 1888
Southern AFC are founded on Thursday 12th of April, 1888
Wakari AFC are founded on Thursday 28th of June, 1888
Thistle I will have to come back too
Northern and Southern play three games, all ending, 3-0, 1-0 and 1-0 all in favour of Southern
Northern and Wakari play three games, the first ending 3-1 to Wakari and the other two going unrecorded
Southern and Wakari play each other twice but neither were recorded.
Wakari play home and away to Thistle (Now comfirmed Dunedin), to which Thistle win the first leg 5-2 then Wakari win the second leg 7-2
Three other games were played but were played against non-club sides
There were also a number of scratch matches between Captain and Vice-Captain of the same club but didn't bother recording those
There was a request sent to Auckland for one of their 6 clubs (at the time) to come down but nothing seemed to come of it
STANDINGS
Southern - 3 wins
Wakari - 2 wins 1 loss
Thistle - 1 win 1 loss
Northern 4 losses
No champion was crowned since there wasn't a league set up
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Funny experpt from August 19th 1889 -
"The Northern vs Southern match on saturday was by no means a first-class exhibition of the game, nor are the inter-club games likely to improve as fast as they should do until the members of the clubs taking part in them study the rules more assiduously than they have hither to done, and so qualify themselves of a greater understanding of the game they are partakers in."
Both teams started with 10 men aside with Northern gaining a man at HT and Southern going on to win 5-1 regardless
"The Northern vs Southern match on saturday was by no means a first-class exhibition of the game, nor are the inter-club games likely to improve as fast as they should do until the members of the clubs taking part in them study the rules more assiduously than they have hither to done, and so qualify themselves of a greater understanding of the game they are partakers in."
Both teams started with 10 men aside with Northern gaining a man at HT and Southern going on to win 5-1 regardless
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