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Seating was restricted in the Victor Trumper Stand and the Clive Churchill Stand due to eye-line restrictions caused by the outfield fence and the need for a batter's eye space in centre field. Its dimensions were 328 feet (99.974 m) to foul lines, 370 feet (112.776 m) to power alleys, and 400 feet (121.920 m) to centre field.
Trumper was buried in Waverley Cemetery after the largest funeral procession ever seen in Sydney (with 250,000 mourners lining the route) [10] and was survived by his wife Sarah, his son Victor and daughter Nancy. Trumper's son, Victor Trumper Jr (1913–1981), played seven first-class games for New South Wales in 1940–41; he was also the ...
Located inside the grounds, taking over two seats on the concourse in front of the new Victor Trumper stand. [9] 7: 5 January 2010: Stan McCabe: Cricket, batsman [10] 8: 9 August 2010: Reg Gasnier: Rugby league and rugby union: Part of the Basil Sellers Sports Sculpture project. [11] Ken Catchpole: Rugby union: Relocated in 2017 to outside the ...
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Trumper Park Oval is a sporting oval in Paddington, New South Wales. The oval is located at the corner of Glenmore Road & Hampden Street, Paddington and is named in honour of Victor Trumper . The oval has a long history of catering for Australian Football in the form of NSWFL foundation club, East Sydney, as well as catering for cricket and ...
It soon became clear that the original 1903 grandstand was too small. And in 1913 plans were made to replace it. This occurred in 1924 with the construction of the Trumper Pavilion, which seats 250 spectators. The Cedric Pike stand (1963), holding 315 spectators was named after a local Rugby figure, who died as a prisoner of war in Malaya in ...
In 1903, legendary cricketer Victor Trumper played at the ground and reportedly hit a ball out of the field which went through the second-floor window of the boot factory across the road where a block of apartments now stand. It was not until 1946 that South Sydney made a formal proposal to make Redfern Oval as their permanent home ground.
In 2007 the Doug Walters Stand and Yabba's Hill were demolished to make way for the new Victor Trumper Stand. On 7 December 2008 a bronze statue of Yabba, sculpted by Cathy Weiszmann , was unveiled at the Sydney Cricket Ground in The Hill area of the new stand. [ 3 ]