'the City Football Club, First Team, Premier Club of Northern Tasmania, Season 1883', Premiership display 'Presented to J.Ellis Esq, President of the Club', with portrait photographs of 19 players and officials, framed and glazed (in original frame), overall 54 x 69 cm. The City Football Club of Launceston was a major stalwart of the northern Tasmanian football scene for many years, and boasted a large number of champion players, including all time greats Laurie Nash and Roy Cazaly. Originally formed in 1879, when it was known as Cornwall, the club changed its name to City the following year and in 1883 it broke through for its first Ntfa premiership. By the turn of the century it had added half a dozen more