[3] Maria Stannage later taught English and Literature at St Mary's Anglican Girls' School.
Commentator Dennis Cometti said, "the Swans led by 21 after three-quarters, but East Fremantle surged to win."
At 22, he left football to continue his studies having played 54 games for Swan Districts between 1964 and 1967.
[3] As the sesquicentennial of Western Australia approached, Stannage was asked to undertake two major works.
[3] UWA Press asked Stannage to edit A New History of Western Australia (1981), an 836-page reference work.
These acclaimed works and others by Stannage wove together the strands of Aboriginal experience into white settlement and he formulated ways for WA history to be simplified and taught in schools.
[3] Stannage was appointed a professor and executive dean, Division of Humanities at Curtin University, Perth, in 1999.