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greatest success until then, when with a victory over NK Ruškogorac from Ilok achieved placement in the
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Dodgeball court became the former land of the tannins factory, which was donated to the club under the then name "Fiskulturno društvo Graničar" by the wife of the owner of the tannin factory Katarina Hepburn, and a stadium was built on it in the same year, and the stands were moved from the old playground to the fair, renovated and officially opened in 1949.
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