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| | Fremantle/Unions |
 | | When the second of those representatives, the Fremantle Football Club, went into mothballs at the end of the 1886 season, Unions acquired a large number of players from its erstwhile rival, and immediately sprang into prominence. |
 | | Fremantle duly engaged in, and won, its next two fixtures, reinforcing its position at the head of the ladder, but then, with three matches still to play, effectively conceded the premiership to Rovers when it elected to 'stand on principle' and bow out for the remainder of the season. |
 | | As for the club which began life as Unions, and which for a time at least was almost certainly capable of fielding the strongest collection of players in Australia, the importance of its role in the consolidation and development of the native code of football in Western Australia cannot be over-stressed. |
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