Who Is Kahibah Football Club?
The first recorded reference to Kahibah Football Club was made in the Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners Advocate, and The Newcastle Sun newspapers on the same day, Tuesday 1st July 1924.
Through “representations made by the Kahibah Progress Association” (a body formed to advance the needs of the fledgling township with the council and other authorities) the “Lands Department” had allocated a parcel of ” six acres of
Crown land “to be used for recreational purposes, on the south-western extremity of the township, where the land was ” level and well situated “, and could also, it was believed, be of use to “Charlestown and Dudley residents”.
And so, from the simple act of being given land and the subsequent commencement of clearing it with the view of it being the home of a football team, Kahibah Oval (not as we know it in today’s form) was built and ultimately, Kahibah Football Club came into being.
So why then?
The answer to this question can be found in an earlier article which appeared in February 1924. The article again appeared in The Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners Advocate and was a description of the Kahibah locale at the time.
It states, “A few years ago it (Kahibah) contained a population of about 100 people, and a few scattered houses. The population is now estimated at about 400, and each year it is increasing”. This “population explosion” would become a common theme throughout the following decades, as the Kahibah area grew in size, so to would Kahibah Football Club.
More to come…….
Kahibah Football Club acknowledges Paulo Pollicino, for his dedicated time and efforts researching the history of Kahibah FC.