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Club Newsletters held in the Society’s archives

  • Bankstown Sports Aust Football Club
  • Between Seasons – News from NSW & Sydney football circles 1977, 1978  & 1980
  • Black Diamond AFL
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  • Pennant Hills Football Club (updated)
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1960 Boystown Engadine Under 14 Premiers

1960 Boystown Engadine Under 14 Premiers

Boys' Town was founded in 1939 by Father Thomas Dunlea (1894-1970) as a residential school to work with adolescent boys and their families to resolve disruption and difficulties at home, in the community and at school. It was run by the Salesians of Don Bosco, an international Catholic society of priests and brothers whose specific charter is to work with disadvantaged youth. The Salesian philosophy is to engage with the positive aspects of young people and their life situations.

According to annual reports, Boys' Town Engadine located in New South Wales, received some children from the ACT requiring temporary 'care' due to 'family crisis.' Prior to ACT self-government in 1989 children requiring temporary placement (for reasons such as illness, hospitalisation or relationship breakdown) could be transferred to Homes interstate.

During the 1950s and 60s, mainly through the efforts of former Newtown player and NSWANFL Umpire, John Leber, pictured on the right, Boystown formed a junior club which competed in the St George Junior Aust Football Assn. Many of these boys went on to play with St George and other clubs throughout NSW.

In 2010 Boys' Town Engadine adopted the name Dunlea Centre.

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