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1908 Eastern Suburbs season

Eastern Suburbs 19 (Dan Frawley 2, Miller, O'Malley, Rosenfeld tries; Messenger 2 goals) defeated North Sydney 11 (3 tries; 1 goal)

1912 Eastern Suburbs season

Eastern Suburbs field goal kicking ability was maintained on their previous season.

Eastern Suburbs overall defense improved by 37.7% on their previous season.

Eastern Suburbs try scoring ability dropped by 6.6% on their previous season.

Eastern Suburbs 10 ( H. H Messeger 4, W Messenger goals ) defeated Glebe Dirty Reds 2 ( goal ) at the Ageicultual Ground.Crowd:2200.

Eastern Suburbs goal scoring ability dropped by 21.8% on their previous season.

Eastern Suburbs conceded a total of 86 points in the 1912 season.

Eastern Suburbs field goal defence improved by 100% on their previous season.

Eastern Suburbs total points against defensive effort improved by 33.3% on their previous season.

Eastern Suburbs overall point scoring ability dropped 15.3% on their previous season.

Eastern Suburbs 12 ( Frawley, P. White tries; Messenger, Frawley goals ) defeated Newtown 6 (Russell 3 goals ) at the Agricultural ground.

Eastern Suburbs try scoring defence improved by 70.5% on their previous season.

Eastern Suburbs Won there second consecutive premiership by finishing 1st at the end of the regular season.

Eastern Suburbs 9 Campbell Try; D. Messenger 3 goals) defeated South Sydney 8 (Darmody 4 goals) at the Agricultural Ground.

Eastern Suburbs goal kicking defence dropped by 7.1% on their previous season.

Eastern Suburbs total point score dropped by 23.3% on their previous season.

1981 New Zealand National Soccer League

As with Eastern Suburbs in 1978 the team bolstered its ranks from England, bringing in Peter Mendham from Norwich City, and his six-match stint with Miramar saw them briefly enter the upper half of the table.

Barry O'Connell

Barry was one of three O'Connell brothers to play for the Eastern Suburbs club in the New South Wales Rugby League(NSWRL), older brother Wally captained Australia in that sport.

Bob Sheens

Sheens worked as a conditioner at Eastern Suburbs and Cronulla Sutherland and later was a lower grade coach at the Western Reds.

Brett Papworth

Papworth elected to sign for the Eastern Suburbs side at the commencement of the 1988 season but his progress was hampered with a series of injuries.

Doug Ricketson

He played for the Eastern Suburbs and Penrith clubs and is the father of Eastern Suburbs' longest serving player, Luke Ricketson.

Gary Prohm

He went on to play for four seasons for the club before leaving in 1986 to join Eastern Suburbs in Australia for two years.

Jack Coote

A junior of the Eastern Suburbs club, Jack Coote was the father of Australian Rugby League Hall of Famer Ron Coote.

Sam Robson

Robson played cricket for New South Wales Under-17s, New South Wales Under-19s, the Australia Under-19 cricket team, the University of New South Wales, and Eastern Suburbs.


see also

1902 Gordon Bennett Cup

The first section began in Champigny-sur-Marne, a commune in the south-eastern suburbs of Paris, before proceeding south-easterly through the towns of Nangis, Troyes, Langres, and coming to an end at Belfort, a distance of 375 km.

1908 Eastern Suburbs season

Legendary cricketer of the time Victor Trumper was appointed to Easts first committee, while Liutenant-Colonel Onslow was made Patron of the Eastern Suburbs club.

1912 Eastern Suburbs season

Eastern Suburbs (now known as the Sydney Roosters) competed in their fifth New South Wales Rugby League season in 1912.

1936 NSWRFL season

Eastern Suburbs 32 (Tries: Fred Tottey 2, Rod O’Loan, Dave Brown, Ray Stehr, Ernie Norman, Jack Lynch, Andy Norval.

2012 Gippsland earthquake

Some minor building damage was reported in the Latrobe Valley close to the epicentre, and in the eastern suburbs of Melbourne.

Area codes 215 and 267

215 and 267 are the North American telephone area codes for the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania which serve its southeast corner, including the city of Philadelphia and its northern and eastern suburbs.

Black flight

There is a large and growing Black population in Toronto's western and eastern suburbs, such as Brampton, Mississauga, Pickering, and Ajax.

Cardinia Reservoir

Cardinia Reservoir is a 287,000 megalitre water storage located in Emerald-Clematis-Dewhurst in south-eastern suburbs of Melbourne, Australia.

CEVA rail

The project is to build the remaining section of an outer ring link connecting Geneva, (Cornavin station) with Annemasse running through Geneva's west, south and south eastern suburbs.

Division of Bonner

The Division of Bonner is located in the eastern suburbs of Brisbane, including the suburbs of Chandler, Carindale, Manly, Mount Gravatt, Wishart and Wynnum.

East Auckland

The East Auckland area includes some south-eastern suburbs within the boundaries of the old Manukau City and Auckland City areas, typified by Howick and including but not limited to Pakuranga, Half Moon Bay, Mount Wellington and Dannemora.

Easts

Sydney Roosters, an Australian rugby league football team in the NRL, formerly known as "Eastern Suburbs" or "Easts" for short.

Flying Pig Marathon

While the course usually varies from year to year, it generally involves running through downtown, Northern Kentucky, and eastern suburbs along the Ohio River.

George Alexander Anstey

He is remembered by the name Anstey Hill, a geographical feature, and the Anstey Hill Recreation Park in the north eastern suburbs of Adelaide.

Graham Dodsworth

Born in the Yallourn Hospital in Gippsland, Victoria, he lived his first five years in Moe after which his family moved to Vermont in the outer eastern suburbs of Melbourne, where he attended Vermont Primary and Secondary Schools.

Hoppegarten

Hoppegarten is located close to the eastern suburbs of Berlin (Mahlsdorf, in the borough of Marzahn-Hellersdorf).

John Brass

During the 1976 NSWRFL season, Brass played as a centre three-quarter back for Eastern Suburbs in their unofficial 1976 World Club Challenge match against British champions St. Helens in Sydney.

Kevin Junee

Kevin is the father of Australian rugby union player Darren Junee who also played rugby league for the Eastern Suburbs club.

Leonard Smith

Len Smith (1918–2000), rugby union and rugby league footballer of the 1930s and '40s for Australia, New South Wales, Eastern Suburbs RUFC, and Newtown

Marcus Montana

Lagudi was the middle of three brothers; all attended the prestigious private eastern suburbs school, Waverley College.

Melbourne - Brighton Bus Lines

In September 1958 route 140A Middle Brighton - St Kilda station was purchased from Eastern Suburbs Omnibus Service.

Metropolitan Golf Club

The Metropolitan Golf Club, tucked quietly in Melbourne's south eastern suburbs is one of the renowned sandbelt courses and widely recognised as one of the finest championship courses in Australia.

Minnesota State Highway 95

This highway runs through mostly rural areas immediately north and east of the Twin Cities, although increasing development in the eastern suburbs of Saint Paul may bring increased traffic to the highway.

Mount Lofty

Access to the summit can be gained by road from the South Eastern Freeway at Crafers, or from the eastern suburbs via Greenhill Road.

Mullum

Mullum Mullum Creek Trail, shared use path for cyclists and pedestrians in the outer eastern suburbs in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia

Pennsylvania Route 39

The route passes through the northern and eastern suburbs of Harrisburg and passes by Hersheypark and Giant Center, as well as the primary production factory for The Hershey Company.

Ringwood–Belgrave Rail Trail

The Ringwood - Belgrave Rail Trail is a shared-use path for cyclists and pedestrians, which follows the Belgrave railway line from the Mullum Mullum Creek Trail in Ringwood to Belgrave railway station in Belgrave, in the outer eastern suburbs of Melbourne, Victoria, Australia.

Roman Catholic Diocese of Sale

The diocese covers the southeastern part of Victoria, from the eastern suburbs of Melbourne to the New South Wales border, including all of Gippsland.

Susan Alberti

DANSU Group successfully completed substantial commercial, industrial and property development projects, especially in Melbourne's south eastern suburbs, including Hallam, Dandenong, and surrounds.

Turkey Point

Turkey Point Park, a park located in the eastern suburbs of Baltimore, Maryland

U.S. Route 270

I-40/US 270 also serve two eastern suburbs of Oklahoma City, Del City and Midwest City and form the northern boundary between Midwest City's civilian areas and Tinker Air Force Base.

United States House of Representatives elections in Arizona, 2006

This heavily conservative district based in the eastern suburbs of Phoenix has been represented by Republican Congressman Jeff Flake since his initial election in 2000.

William Murray Ross

William Murray Ross (1825-1904) was an entrepreneur best remembered for his failed "Rosstown Railway" in the south-eastern suburbs of Melbourne.