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1949 'Rebels' from Back row l-r: M.De Haan, K.Smith, J.Dalmeyer, F.Koning, E.Woonough, S.Pendridge Front: C.Everest, L.Fryer, C.Jackson, J.Davey, ?? Jones.
The Casino R.S.M. Cobras Football Club of today can trace it’s origins as far as 1933 when senior men’s teams from Casino first battled against teams from Lismore.
Soccer was being played informally prior to WW2 in the Lismore area by locals and by teams of overseas soldiers stationed around Lismore in the final years of the war. There were Americans in Lismore and Casino, English in Evans Head, Dutch and Indonesians in Casino and Indians in Lismore.
In 1948 a formal competition began with just four teams: Casino ‘Rebels’, Lismore City (Premiers), Methodist United, Goonellabah-Stars. That number would grow over the successive years as the Rebels continued to participate in the competition.
References:
Soccer Far North Coast Inc. (1999). The First 50 Years, 1949-1998. Lismore City Printery.