From Our Collection

From Our Collection

ByCCBHS Editor

1927 Chinese Commemorative Scroll This was given by Kwang Lim Kwong, the manager of a touring Chinese soccer team, to Ernest Lukeman, the secretary of the Australian Soccer Football Association, in appreciation for his help in coordinating a team from China to tour Australia in 1927. The Lukeman family has lived in Drummoyne for several…

Ernest Lukeman

Ernest Lukeman

ByCCBHS Editor

Ernest Lukeman was involved in restarting the Commonwealth Football Association after the war. In 1920 he was appointed secretary of the reconstituted Australian Soccer Association (ASA), and continued in that position until 1933 He is the unacknowledged father of the team we now know as the Socceroos.  For the whole period between 1922 and 1933,…