BY PURE coincidence, Australian football's first official match on foreign soil was played at the Hickam air force field in Honolulu overlooking Pearl Harbour, the scene of a far more sinister invasion that still resonates at dawn services today.
It was October 1963 and the exhibition match pitted Geelong - winner of the VFL Grand Final a fortnight earlier - against the powerhouse club of the era, Melbourne.
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