Jack Speare Park

Last updated

Jack Speare Park, formerly known as the Indooroopilly Recreation Reserve ('The Rec'), was named for one of the founders of the Taringa Rovers Soccer Football Club (soccer) and Taringa Rovers Cricket Club. [1]

Contents

The ground is bounded by Fairley Street, Lambert and Carnarvon Roads at Indooroopilly, and features two football fields, junior fields, a turf cricket pitch, dressing rooms and licensed club house.

The field was named by former Brisbane Lord Mayor Sallyanne Atkinson in the late 1980s, to honour Mr Speare's contributions to football and the local community. [2]

Related Research Articles

Division of Ryan Australian federal electoral division

The Division of Ryan is an Australian Electoral Division in Queensland.

Taringa is a suburb of Brisbane, Australia 5 kilometres (3.1 mi) south-west of the Brisbane CBD. Taringa is mostly residential, except for a small number of commercial buildings mostly clustered along Moggill Road. It is a popular neighbourhood among the students of the University of Queensland and the Queensland University of Technology because of its proximity to the universities and to Brisbane city.

Indooroopilly, Queensland Suburb of Brisbane, Queensland, Australia

Indooroopilly is a suburb of Brisbane, Australia 7 kilometres (4.3 mi) west of the Brisbane central business district. The suburb covers 7.5 km². At the 2016 Australian Census the suburb recorded a population of 12,242.

Western Freeway, Brisbane freeway in Brisbane, Queensland

The Western Freeway is a 5-kilometre-long (3.1 mi) freeway in western Brisbane that runs from Milton Road in Toowong to the western side of Indooroopilly where the freeway becomes the M5 Centenary Motorway. The freeway bears the symbol and forms part of Metroad 5. There is one interchange, at Indooroopilly onto Moggill Road. A bicycle path runs the length of the freeway, allowing commuting to Toowong and onto Brisbane by bicycle.

Taringa Rovers SFC

Taringa Rovers is an Australian soccer club based at Indooroopilly, in the west of Brisbane, Australia. The club was founded in 1949 by Jack Speare and Ernie Dixon.

Eastern Suburbs FC

Eastern Suburbs Football Club is an Australian soccer club from East Brisbane, Queensland, Australia. The club is the most centrally located of all the semi-professional clubs in Brisbane, situated approximately 2.7 kilometres (1.7 mi) from the city centre. Easts competes in the National Premier Leagues Queensland, in both the men's and women's competitions, and play their home games at Heath Park, East Brisbane.

Football Brisbane Capital League 1

Capital League 1 is the second tier of men's senior football (soccer) in Brisbane, Queensland and Level 5 within the Australia. It is administered by Football Brisbane. All clubs participating in Capital League 1 must field two teams, one in first grade, and another in the reserves competition. Clubs in the NPL and Brisbane Premier League cannot field their reserves teams in this division.

Peninsula Power FC Australian soccer club

Peninsula Power is an Australian football (soccer) club from Redcliffe, Queensland. The club was formed in 2000 following a merger of the Redcliffe City and Margate soccer clubs. The club currently competes in the Brisbane Premier League. In May 2017, Football Queensland announced Peninsula Power FC were among the 14 clubs accepted to form the Football Queensland Premier League for its initial season in 2018.

Chelmer, Queensland Suburb of Brisbane, Queensland, Australia

Chelmer is a middle suburb in the City of Brisbane, Queensland, Australia, 7 kilometres (4.3 mi) west of the Brisbane CBD on the Brisbane River. Chelmer is zoned as a residential area, and consists of low-density housing. It has many fine Queenslanders, characterised by wooden verandahs, wide stairways and roofing of galvanized iron, but in recent years solid brick homes have been built also. It suffered badly from the 2011 Queensland floods, with many homes submerged by the rising river.

Kenmore, Queensland Suburb of Brisbane, Queensland, Australia

Kenmore is a suburb of the City of Brisbane, Queensland, Australia. It is on the Brisbane River 10 kilometres (6.2 mi) south-west of the Brisbane CBD. Kenmore is a leafy suburb with a high number of professional residents and families. It is dominated by detached housing, but townhouses and units are increasing within the suburb. Kenmore has benefited greatly from the Centenary Highway which gives it direct access to the city via Milton Road, Coronation Drive, or since 2015 the Legacy Way.

The Brisbane Football Club is a defunct Australian rules football club, formed in May 1866. Brisbane FC was the first known football club of any code in Brisbane, Queensland.

Jamboree Heights is a suburb of Brisbane, Australia. It is 14 km (9 mi) south west of the CBD.

Brisbane Roar FC (W-League) womens association football team

Brisbane Roar Women Football Club, formerly known Queensland Roar Women, is an Australian professional women's football club based in Brisbane, Queensland. The Roar competes in the country's premier women's soccer competition, the W-League, under licence from Football Federation Australia.

History of soccer in Brisbane, Queensland

The earliest known records of regular association football (soccer) games in Brisbane date from the early 1880s, when a group comprising mostly Scottish immigrants commenced playing at Queen's Park, adjacent to Alice and Edward Streets in the city and vacant land in Melbourne Street South Brisbane, between Grey and Stanley Streets. This group of players subsequently formed the Anglo-Queensland Football Association in early 1884, and commenced playing fixtures at the sportsfield behind the Pineapple Hotel, in Main Street Kangaroo Point, and at Queen's Park, in June 1884.

Bardon Latrobe FC soccer club in Brisbane, Australia

Bardon Latrobe Football Club, based at Bardon in Brisbane, Queensland, is one of the larger soccer clubs in Brisbane, with over 400 registered players. This iteration of the club was formed with the merging in 1970 of the Latrobe Soccer Club and the Bardon Soccer Football Club, two of the oldest clubs in the Brisbane football competition.

Shire of Moggill

The Shire of Moggill is a former local government area of Queensland, Australia, located in western Brisbane.

Shire of Taringa

The Shire of Taringa is a former local government area of Queensland, Australia, located in western Brisbane. Its administrative centre was Taringa. It existed from 1890 to 1925.

Toowong FC

Toowong FC is an Australian football (soccer) club based in Auchenflower, Queensland, Australia. The club was established in 1921, and currently plays in the Football Brisbane Men's Premier League, Women's Capital League and City League competitions. The club also has junior teams for all ages with a strong focus on female participation.

The Japanese Language Supplementary School of Queensland is a weekend Japanese supplementary school serving Japanese nationals and Japanese Australians in the state of Queensland, Australia.

Bayside United FC

Bayside United FC is an Australian football (soccer) club from Lota, an eastern suburb of Brisbane. The club was formed in 1974, and currently competes in Capital League 1. When the club celebrated its 40th anniversary in 2014 it had over 500 members and more than 440 registered junior players.

References

  1. Taringa Rovers official website - retrieved 19 May 2012
  2. Taringa Rovers official history - retrieved 19 May 2012

See also

Coordinates: 27°30′08.39″S152°58′53.28″E / 27.5023306°S 152.9814667°E / -27.5023306; 152.9814667