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The 1908 Melbourne Carnival was the inaugural Australian National Football Carnival, an Australian rules football interstate competition, held in Melbourne in August 1908. It was known at the time as the Jubilee Australasian Football Carnival because it was designed to commemorate 50 years of Australian rules football. The winning team was presented with a silk pennant; and each member of the winning team received a gold championship medal.〔(Australian Rules: Australasian Carnival, ''The Sydney Mail'', (Wednesday, 12 August 1908), p.443. )〕 Although the 29 August final between Victoria and Western Australia was played in front of something like 15,000 spectators, it is certain that the crowd would have been considerably larger if it had not also been the first day of the American Fleet's eight day visit to Melbourne.〔(Umpire, "Football Jubilee: Australasian Championship: Won by Victoria", ''The Argus'', (Monday, 31 August 1908), p.5. )〕 ==Official opening== The official opening was conducted by Sir Thomas Gibson-Carmichael, the Governor of Victoria, at 3:00 PM on Wednesday 19 August 1908, in the interval between the first and second matches of the carnival (the first match started at 1:15 PM, the second at 3:30 PM). The crowd of 7,000+ was in an excited mood: in the first match, New Zealand had come back from a 26-point half-time deficit to win by a single point. The seven participating teams, with each player in their team uniforms, lined up and formed a hollow square. The official party, the Governor of Victoria, accompanied by his private secretary, Victor Albert Nelson Hood (1862–1929), Sir Thomas Bent, Premier of Victoria, H. C. A. Harrison, Australian Rules administrative pioneer (then 71 years old), Mr. Cornelius Michael "Con" Hickey (1866-1937), Fitzroy footballer in the (VFA 1887-1894), secretary of the Fitzroy Football Club (1893-1910), foundation member and first treasurer of the Victorian Football League, and the inaugural president of the Australian National Football Council (formed in 1906), Mr. E.L. "Ernie" Wilson, the first secretary of the Collingwood Football Club in the VFL, and secretary of the VFL from 1897-1929, and Mr. Albert E. Nash, president of the New South Wales Australian Football League, were each introduced to the captain of each team and shook hands.〔(Football Carnival: Opened in Melbourne, ''The Advertiser'', (Thursday, 20 August 1908), p.7. )〕 The ceremony was notable for the performance of "war cries" by both the New Zealand and Queensland teams; and, in the opinion of "Old Boy", despite not performing well on the football field, the Queensland "war cry" was the best of the two, in that its effort was "dramatic, descriptive, and interesting".〔(Old Boy, "Football Jubilee: Australasian Championships: A Fine Display", ''The Argus'', (Thursday, 20 August 1908), p.7. )〕 Although it is not clear (as it was in the newspaper accounts of the New Zealand team on other occasions) from any of the contemporary reports of the day's proceedings whether, on this occasion, the New Zealand "war cry" was specifically a haka or not, "Follower's" report in "The Age" strongly suggests that to be the case: "a feature of the () inspection … was the Maori war cry, given with great zest by the New Zealand team, and equally stirring was the aboriginal battle cry of the Queenslanders".〔(Follower, "Football Jubilee Carnival: A Successful Opening", ''The Age'', (Thursday, 20 August 1908), p.11. )〕 The second match, played immediately after the opening ceremony, was nowhere near as exciting: Tasmania beat Queensland by 140 points. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「1908 Melbourne Carnival」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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