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Tom Brock Lecture

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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.{{Cite news | title = Lessons abound in courage and defiance of past | newspaper= The Sydney Morning Herald | place = Australia | publisher = Fairfax Media | date = 22 September 2004 | url = http://www.smh.com.au/articles/2004/09/21/1095651325897.html | access-date = 16 October 2010 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121107054745/http://www.smh.com.au/articles/2004/09/21/1095651325897.html | url-status = live | archive-date=7 November 2012}} The topic of the lecture is the 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.{{Cite news | last = Rothfield | first = Phil | author-link=Phil Rothfield |author2=Heads, Phillip |author-link2=Phillip Heads | title = Webcke to speak his mind | newspaper= The Sunday Telegraph | place = Australia | publisher = News Limited | date = 17 December 2006 | url = http://www.dailytelegraph.com.au/sport/nrl/webcke-to-speak-his-mind/story-e6frexnr-1111112699877

| access-date = 16 October 2010 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120927092255/http://www.dailytelegraph.com.au/sport/nrl/webcke-to-speak-his-mind/story-e6frexnr-1111112699877 | url-status = dead | archive-date=27 September 2012}} Shane Webcke was set to become the first player to give the lecture when he was invited to do so in 2007, but this did not eventuate.

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.{{cite web|title=Tom Brock Lecture|url=http://www.sporthistory.org/TomBrocklect.htm|publisher=Australian Society for Sports History|access-date=18 January 2011|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110218162918/http://www.sporthistory.org/TomBrocklect.htm|archive-date=18 February 2011|url-status=dead|date=2 January 2011}} The book includes the Tom Brock lectures delivered from 1999 to 2008, an essay considering 10 years of lectures and study of the game, a biography of Tom Brock and some information on the Bequest Committee.

List of lectures

  1. 29 September 1999 - Dr Andrew Moore: Jimmy Devereux's Yorkshire Pudding: Reflections on the origins of rugby league in New South Wales and Queensland{{cite web|last=Moore|first=Andrew|title=Jimmy Devereux's Yorkshire pudding: Reflections on the Origins of Rugby League in New South Wales and Queensland|url=http://www.la84foundation.org/SportsLibrary/TomBrock/TomBrockLecture1.pdf|work=1st Annual Tom Brock Lecture|publisher=Tom Brock Bequest Committee|access-date=17 January 2011|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120808034617/http://www.la84foundation.org/SportsLibrary/TomBrock/TomBrockLecture1.pdf|archive-date=8 August 2012|url-status=live|location=Australia|date=2000}}
  2. 30 November 2000 - Ian Heads: "Gang-gangs at one o'clock" … and Other Flights of Fancy; A Personal Journey through Rugby League{{cite web|last=Heads|first=Ian|title="Gang-Gangs at one o'clock" ... and other flights of fancy; A personal journey through rugby league|url=http://www.la84foundation.org/SportsLibrary/TomBrock/TomBrockLecture2.pdf|work=2nd Annual Tom Brock Lecture|publisher=Tom Brock Bequest Committee|access-date=17 January 2011|author-link=Ian Heads|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120808034725/http://www.la84foundation.org/SportsLibrary/TomBrock/TomBrockLecture2.pdf|archive-date=8 August 2012|url-status=live|location=Australia|date=2001}}
  3. 20 September 2001 - Alex Buzo: Sydney: The Heart of Rugby League{{cite web|last=Buzo|first=Alex|title=Sydney: Heart of Rugby League|url=http://www.la84foundation.org/SportsLibrary/TomBrock/TomBrockLecture3.pdf|work=3rd Annual Tom Brock Lecture|publisher=Tom Brock Bequest Committee|access-date=17 January 2011|author-link=Alex Buzo|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120808034741/http://www.la84foundation.org/SportsLibrary/TomBrock/TomBrockLecture3.pdf|archive-date=8 August 2012|url-status=live|location=Australia|date=2002}}
  4. 22 August 2002 - Alan Clarkson: The Changing Face of Rugby League{{cite web|last=Clarkson|first=Alan|title=The changing face of rugby league|url=http://www.la84foundation.org/SportsLibrary/TomBrock/TomBrockLecture4.pdf|work=4th Annual Tom Brock Lecture|publisher=Tom Brock Bequest Committee|access-date=17 January 2011|author-link=Alan Clarkson (journalist)|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120808034748/http://www.la84foundation.org/SportsLibrary/TomBrock/TomBrockLecture4.pdf|archive-date=8 August 2012|url-status=live|location=Australia|date=2003}}
  5. 4 July 2003 - Tony Collins: "Ahr Waggy": Harold Wagstaff and the making of Anglo-Australian rugby league culture {{cite web|last=Collins|first=Tony|title='Ahr Waggy'; Harold Wagstaff and the making of Anglo-Australian rugby league culture|url=http://www.la84foundation.org/SportsLibrary/TomBrock/TomBrockLecture5.pdf|work=5th Annual Tom Brock Lecture|publisher=Tom Brock Bequest Committee|access-date=18 January 2011|author-link=Tony Collins (historian)|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120808034702/http://www.la84foundation.org/SportsLibrary/TomBrock/TomBrockLecture5.pdf|archive-date=8 August 2012|url-status=live|location=Australia|date=2004}}
  6. 22 September 2004 - Tom Keneally, AO: No more bloody bundles for Britain: The Post-World War II tours of the British and French Allies{{cite web|last=Keneally|first=Tom|title="No more bloody bundles for Britain": The Post-World War II tours of the British and French allies|url=http://www.la84foundation.org/SportsLibrary/TomBrock/TomBrockLecture6.pdf|work=6th Annual Tom Brock Lecture|publisher=Tom Brock Bequest Committee|access-date=18 January 2011|author-link=Tom Keneally|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120808034625/http://www.la84foundation.org/SportsLibrary/TomBrock/TomBrockLecture6.pdf|archive-date=8 August 2012|url-status=live|location=Australia|date=2005}}
  7. 21 September 2005 - Roy Masters: The Great Fibro versus Silvertail Wars{{cite web|last=Masters|first=Roy|title=The Great Fibro versus Silvertail Wars'|url=http://www.la84foundation.org/SportsLibrary/TomBrock/TomBrockLecture7.pdf|work=7th Annual Tom Brock Lecture|publisher=Tom Brock Bequest Committee|access-date=18 January 2011|author-link=Roy Masters (rugby league)|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120808034707/http://www.la84foundation.org/SportsLibrary/TomBrock/TomBrockLecture7.pdf|archive-date=8 August 2012|url-status=live|location=Australia|date=2006}}
  8. 21 September 2006 - David Rowe: The Stuff of Dreams, or the Dream Stuffed? Rugby League, Media Empires, Sex Scandals, and Global Plays{{cite web|last=David|first=Rowe|title=The stuff of dreams, or the dream stuffed? Rugby league, media empires, sex scandals, and global plays|url=http://www.la84foundation.org/SportsLibrary/TomBrock/TomBrockLecture8.pdf|work=8th Annual Tom Brock Lecture|publisher=Tom Brock Bequest Committee|access-date=18 January 2011|author-link=David Rowe (professor)|archive-date=1 January 2011|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110101111917/http://www.la84foundation.org/SportsLibrary/TomBrock/TomBrockLecture8.pdf|location=Australia|year=2007}}
  9. 27 September 2007 - Sean Fagan: Nothing But a Nine-Day Wonder: The founding of rugby league—Australia’s first professional code {{cite web|last=Fagan|first=Sean|title="Nothing But a Nine-Day Wonder": The founding of rugby league—Australia's first professional code|url=http://www.abc.net.au/rn/backgroundbriefing/documents/Fagan_transcript.pdf|work=9th Annual Tom Brock Lecture|publisher=Australian Broadcasting Corporation|access-date=18 January 2011|author-link=Sean Fagan|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090920090045/http://www.abc.net.au/rn/backgroundbriefing/documents/Fagan_transcript.pdf|archive-date=20 September 2009|url-status=dead|year=2007}}{{cite web|url=http://www.rl1908.com/brock-lecture-2007.htm|title=2007 Tom Brock Lecture|last=Fagan|first=Sean|author-link=Sean Fagan|date=23 April 2008|publisher=RL1908|access-date=18 January 2011|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20101011142252/http://rl1908.com/brock-lecture-2007.htm|url-status=dead|archive-date=11 October 2010}}
  10. 6 November 2008 - Lex Marinos, OAM: From a Federation Game to a League of Nations
  11. 23 September 2009 - Terry Williams: The Lost Tribes of League – the fate of axed and merged clubs and their fans{{Cite web | url=http://www.tombrock.com.au/wp-content/uploads/2012/03/tb09williamsA5.pdf | title=The Lost Tribes of League | last=Williams | first=Terry | website=www.tombrock.com.au}}
  12. 23 September 2010 - John Fahey, AC: Tries and Tribulations
  13. 15 September 2011 - Debbie Spillane 'The view from the ladies stand'
  14. 6 September 2012 - David Hill: Can Rugby League Survive the Twenty-first Century?{{cite web|title=XIV Tom Brock Lecture|url=http://www.tombrock.com.au/2012/06/xiv-tom-brock-lecture/|work=tombrock.com.au|publisher=Tom Brock Bequest Committee|access-date=17 March 2014}}
  15. 18 September 2013 - Frank Puletua: The Chocolate Soldiers – The emergence of western Sydney’s new league of players{{cite web|title=XV Tom Brock Lecture|url=http://www.tombrock.com.au/2013/08/xv-tom-brock-lecture/|work=tombrock.com.au|publisher=Tom Brock Bequest Committee|access-date=17 March 2014}}
  16. 8 October 2014 - Tom Harms: People, Stories and Meaning in Rugby League{{Cite web|url=http://www.tombrock.com.au/2014/06/xvi-tom-brock-lecture/|title=XVI Tom Brock Lecture {{!}} Tom Brock Website|website=www.tombrock.com.au|access-date=17 January 2017}}
  17. 16 September 2015 - Ross McMullin: Retrieving Ted Larkin (1880 – 1915): Outstanding Footballer, Acclaimed Organiser, Original ANZAC{{Cite web|url=http://www.tombrock.com.au/2015/04/xvii-tom-brock-lecture/|title=XVII Tom Brock Lecture {{!}} Tom Brock Website|website=www.tombrock.com.au|access-date=17 January 2017}}
  18. 20 September 2016 - Dean Widders: My Game, My People{{Cite web|url=http://www.tombrock.com.au/2016/06/xviii-tom-brock-lecture/|title=XVIII Tom Brock Lecture {{!}} Tom Brock Website|website=www.tombrock.com.au|access-date=17 January 2017}}
  19. 5 July 2017 - Raelene Castle {{post-nominals|country=NZL|ONZM|size=90%}}: Leadership insights from the National Rugby League and Australasian Sport
  20. 19 September 2018 - A panel discussion featuring Roy Masters, Tracey Holmes and Brian Canavan" How has rugby league progressed in the past 20 years?{{cite web |title=Rugby League Retrospective |url=http://www.tombrock.com.au/events/5/rugby-league-retrospective/ |website=tombrock.com.au |publisher=The Tom Brock Bequest |access-date=7 October 2018}}
  21. 24 September 2019 - Braham Dabscheck ‘Big Artie’s Most Important Offload; Forty Years of the Rugby League Players’ Association’

External links

  • [http://www.sporthistory.org/TomBrocklect.htm Tom Brock Lecture] at Australian Society for Sports History website

References

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