This year marks 100 years since one of the great early moments in our club’s history — the 1925/26 Premiership.
After first taking to the cricket field in December 1918, the Spartan Cricket Club quickly built a reputation for toughness, resilience and giving it everything — true to the “Spartan” name chosen by Reverend W.R. Hibbert.
In 1925/26, Spartans returned to the Fremantle Churches Association and capped it off in style, defeating Richmond Cricket Club in the Grand Final to claim the Club’s second flag.
Club captain Bob Kirk led the side, and the premiership photo features some wonderful names from our early history:
W. Meyer, K. Stenhouse, F. Hood, L. Mudge, R. Anderson, P. Fiddament, A. Jarvis, R. Kirk, A. Meyer, A. Gracie, R. Thomson, R. Hickmott, E. Onions and R. Mudge.
It was also an era where things were far from easy. The club had even been denied use of a practice wicket at the oval because it was deemed to belong to a “fourth rate association” — prompting a sharp newspaper response that the council clearly intended to keep them that way by denying them facilities to improve. Sound familiar?
A century later, we’re proud to look back on the determination of those early Spartans, whose grit helped lay the foundations for the club we know today.
100 years on — still Spartan. 💪🏏
