Each year they make the drive from Hobart to Launceston to watch the game at UTAS Stadium between Hawthorn and Sydney Swans. And each year, since 2011, Mrs Tangney hands over the Alec Campbell Cup, the match played in honour of her late father.

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Beyond simply handing over the cup, the moment allows for connection over Mr Campbell's legacy as the last surviving Gallipoli soldier.

"I find it special to remember dad and for his memory to be kept alive," she said.

"When he was alive there was a lot of Anzac Day events. When he turned 100, he was in the paper and people knew about him. Now you don't hear about it so much."

Before the match, Mrs Tangney will visit her father's grave in Hobart and attend the dawn service before making the drive to Launceston.

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Mrs Tangney said it's an "awesome" match to watch and an "honour" to hand over the cup.

"It's really exciting, the players have always been really lovely," she said.

"They usually learn a bit about dad and the Anzacs before the match."

To Mrs Tangney, as a direct descendent of a soldier who fought at Gallipoli, Anzac Day is passionate about remembering Australia's history.

"It's really important because if it's not mentioned, not spoken about, then people don't remember," she said.

"The game and being in the paper, it makes it a talking point."

Sport and Anzac Day seem to go hand in hand.

"Mateship and being a part of a team, its the Australian way," Mrs Tangney said.

Mrs Tangney said she has great memories of her dad.

"Even though he was older father, he was 69 when I was born, he was hands on," she said.

"We went fishing and sailing, it was really great."

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Mr Campbell installed strong values in his daughter.

"He taught me to be true and fair, and to work hard," Mrs Tangney said.

This year the Hawthorn team will debut their first Anzac Day guernsey, which features a silhouette of an Anzac soldier.

Hawthorn Football Club's head of Tasmanian operations David Cox said the Alec Campbell Cup is one of the most important matches of the year for the club.

"It's an opportunity for us as a football club to acknowledge and amplify the message around honouring the sacrifice, that not only the Anzacs made for our way of life, but all those who are served in many theatres of war across the world," he said.

"We're honoured every year to host Alec Campbell's youngest daughter, Felicity."

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Mr Cox said AFL and Anzac Day was connected by the footballs culture in towns.

"It was a period of time where Australian grew up and remained in the town they were born in," he said.

"Football clubs and club rooms where a part of the cultural DNA of the towns. In those towns that bid farewell to their young men that went off to war 100 years, and in times of grief and jubilation people would return to those clubrooms.

"There is a connection between a towns culture and memories of those who played football, and then went off to war, many who didn't come back, it's very hard to ignore that connection."

Mr Cox encouraged people to get to the game before 11.30am. There will be performances by the Naval Band and Choir and an Anzac ceremony at 12pm before kick off at 12.30.

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