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1897 VFL Finals Series
The Victorian Football League's 1897 finals series determined the top four final positions of the 1897 VFL season. It began on the weekend of August 21, 1897, and ended on the weekend of September 3, 1897. Essendon was crowned the 1897 VFL premiers, finishing the finals series on top of the mini-ladder. Final ladder Finals system Abandoned systems When the VFL was initially established at the end of 1896, it immediately announced that a finals series would be played. However, there were two other announcements of different finals formats, before the system used was ultimately decided upon late in the season. The format that was originally announced in October 1896 was that after fourteen weeks of home-and-away matches, a finals series would be played as a simple four-team knock out tournament amongst the top four clubs, and the gate takings from the semi-finals would be donated to charity. By February 1897, the knock-out tournament had been abandoned in favour of a sy ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1898 VFL Finals Series
The Victorian Football League's 1898 finals series determined the premiers of the 1898 VFL season. Played under a new playoff system, the finals featured all eight teams, beginning on 27 August and concluding with the 1898 VFL Grand Final on 24 September. The premiership was won by , who defeated by 15 points in the Grand Final. Finals system The VFL introduced a new system of finals for the 1898 season. Under the new arrangement the season was to take place as follows: * The eight teams played each other in a home-and-away season of fourteen matches. At the end of the season, the team on top of the ladder (based on win–loss record, with percentage as a tie-breaker), was declared the Minor Premier. *The eight teams were split into two groups based on their position on the ladder at the end of the home-and-away season. The groupings were: ** Group A: teams finishing 1st, 3rd, 5th, and 7th. ** Group B: teams finishing 2nd, 4th, 6th, and 8th. * Each group played a separate three-ma ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Harry Wright (Australian Footballer)
Herbert Lovegrove Wright (13 April 1870 – 19 March 1950) was an Australian rules footballer who played for the Essendon Football Club around and during the years following the formation of the Victorian Football League (VFL). Football Wright made his debut in 1894, and was part of the Essendon team that won the premiership that year. He won his second premiership in the 1897 season. During that season, he kicked the winning goal for Essendon in the first round final against Geelong. He also played in the first ever VFL Grand Final the following year. A centreman, Wright finished on the losing team on that occasion but took part in a winning Grand Final in 1901, winning his third premiership. At the end of the 1899 season, in the process of naming his own "champion player", the football correspondent for ''The Argus'' ("Old Boy"), selected a team of the best players of the 1899 VFL competition:Backs: Maurie Collins (Essendon), Bill Proudfoot (Collingwood), Peter Burns (G ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Son Barry
Edward "Son" Barry (8 March 1877 – 31 December 1959) was an Australian rules footballer who played for the Essendon Football Club in the Victorian Football League (VFL). Family The son of John Barry (1843-1908), and Mary Ann Barry (1850-1897), née McLaughlin, Edward Barry was born on 8 March 1877. He married Minnie Selina Young (1878-1945) in 1898. Cricket Barry was a well-established cricketer; and, according to the sporting journalist, former Fitzroy footballer, former Essendon football coach, and former Australian Test cricketer, Jack Worrall, writing in 1936, a significant historical error needed to be corrected: ::"The ecentdeath of B.J.T. Bosanquet at the comparatively early age of 59 years has removed a great personality from the cricket world. Most people, and many scribes, are under the erroneous impression that osanquetwas the discoverer of the class of ball known as the "googly" a name, I am led to believe, invented in New Zealand.But while Bosanquet was not ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
George Vautin
George James Phillips Vautin (23 April 1869 – 9 January 1949) was an Australian sportsman who played Australian rules football for the Essendon Football Club in the Victorian Football League (VFL) and first-class cricket for both Tasmania and Victoria. Family Vautin was born in Orielton, Tasmania and died in the Mercy Hospital in East Melbourne. Football Vautin was from Tasmania and played at the City Football Club in Hobart. A rover, he represented his league in 1889 in an away series in Victoria, impressing the Essendon recruiters who signed him up for the 1892 VFA season and he was a key part of their premiership teams over the next three seasons. The VFL began in 1897 and Vautin was a member of Essendon's inaugural VFL premiership side. Cricket Vautin was also a cricketer, playing a first-class match for Tasmania in 1889/90 and another for Victoria in 1894/95. He played club cricket for East Melbourne Cricket Club and St Kilda Cricket Club during the 1890s. [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gus Kearney
Augustus Daniel Kearney (22 November 1870 – 10 March 1907) was an Australian rules footballer who played for the Essendon Football Club in the Victorian Football League (VFL), and was a part of the Bombers' 1897 premiership team. Football Kearney came from Geelong College and played in three of the Essendon Association's premierships between 1892 and 1894. Kearney was a skilled follower who played intercolonial football in 1893. Kearney was the vice-captain of Essendon in his two playing years for the club in the Victorian Football League, 1897 and 1898. Tennis He also excelled at tennis, winning the New South Wales Open The Sydney International (formerly known as the Championship of New South Wales and New South Wales Open, with various title sponsors), formerly sponsored as the Apia International Sydney from 2012 to 2017, is a professional tennis tournament i ... twice and Victorian Singles title six times. Death Kearney died at the age of 36, on 10 March 1907, aft ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Charlie Forbes
Charlie "Tracker" Forbes (8 May 1865 – 20 June 1922) was an Australian rules footballer who played for the Essendon Football Club in the Victorian Football League (VFL). Family The son of James Forbes (1815-1900), and Jessie Forbes (1830-1914), née Walker, Charles Forbes was born at West Melbourne, Victoria on 8 May 1865. Football Forbes was a high marking ruckman — "being strong and wiry with a long reach he was able to take the ball well above the head of the average size footballer" — who, with his Essendon team-mates, ruckman Fred Ball and rover Colin Campbell, formed the dominant ruck combination of the era. Essendon (VFA) Recruited from the North Park "junior team" in West Melbourne, Forbes played 140 games between 1889 and 1896 for Essendon in the VFA, prior to the VFL's foundation. A member of the Essendon teams that won four successive premierships from 1891 and 1894, Forbes was named Player of the Season in 1892 by '' The Argus''. Essendon (VFL) In 1897, a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sam Brockwell
Frederick Leopold Samuel Brockwell (4 February 1871 – 12 February 1945) was an Australian rules footballer who played with Geelong and South Melbourne in the Victorian Football League (VFL).Holmesby & Main (2014), p.96. See also * The Footballers' Alphabet On Saturday 23 July 1898, the Melbourne weekly newspaper '' The Leader'' published ''The Footballers' Alphabet''. The poem, which had been written by its influential (Australian Rules) football correspondent, "Follower", delivered a brief comment ... Notes References 'Follower', "The Footballers' Alphabet", ''The Leader'', (Saturday, 23 July 1898), p.17.* External links * * 1871 births 1945 deaths People educated at Geelong College Australian rules footballers from Victoria (state) Geelong Football Club (VFA) players Geelong Football Club players Sydney Swans players {{AFL-bio-1870s-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alf Pontin
Alfred Edward Pontin (22 September 1869 – 7 March 1930) was an Australian rules footballer who played for the Geelong Football Club in the Victorian Football League The Victorian Football League (VFL) is an Australian rules football league in Australia serving as one of the second-tier regional semi-professional competitions which sit underneath the fully professional Australian Football League (AFL). It ... (VFL). Notes External links * * 1869 births 1930 deaths Australian rules footballers from Victoria (state) Geelong Football Club (VFA) players Geelong Football Club players People from the Colony of Victoria {{AFL-bio-1860s-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jack Conway (footballer)
John Joseph Conway (26 March 1867 – 22 October 1949) was an Australian rules footballer who played for the Geelong Football Club in the Victorian Football League (VFL). Family Jack married Mary Catherine Doloughty and had five children from 1899 to 1915. Football He was Geelong's first captain in the VFL, captaining the club for its first three seasons in the new competition before retiring at the end of the 1899 season. He is also notable for being in the inaugural team for Geelong in the VFL, and is credited with being the first player selected for a Geelong team. See also *The Footballers' Alphab ...
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Firth McCallum
Firth William McCallum (27 December 1872 – 11 July 1910) was an Australian rules footballer who played with Geelong in the Victorian Football League (VFL). At the end of the 1899 season, in the process of naming his own "champion player", the football correspondent for ''The Argus'' ("Old Boy"), selected a team of the best players of the 1899 VFL competition:Backs: Maurie Collins (Essendon), Bill Proudfoot (Collingwood), Peter Burns (Geelong); Halfbacks: Pat Hickey (Fitzroy), George Davidson (South Melbourne), Alf Wood (Melbourne); Centres: Fred Leach (Collingwood), Firth McCallum (Geelong), Harry Wright (Essendon); Wings: Charlie Pannam (Collingwood), Eddie Drohan (Fitzroy), Herb Howson (South Melbourne); Forwards: Bill Jackson (Essendon), Eddy James (Geelong), Charlie Colgan (South Melbourne); Ruck: Mick Pleass (South Melbourne), Frank Hailwood (Collingwood), Joe McShane (Geelong); Rovers: Dick Condon (Collingwood), Bill McSpeerin (Fitzroy), Teddy Rankin Edw ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Peter Burns (footballer, Born 1866)
Peter Charles Burns (5 January 1866 – 11 October 1952) was an Australian rules footballer in the (then) Victorian Football Association (VFA) and Victorian Football League (VFL). Family The son of John Burns (1829-1897), and Martha Burns (1833-1914), née Harrison, Peter Charles Burns was born at Steiglitz, Victoria on 5 January 1866. One of his brothers, Allen Burns, played for South Melbourne in the VFL. Peter Burns married Elizabeth Corbett (1867-1951) in South Melbourne on 18 April 1889. Football Burns was a tall ruckman and full-back who made his debut in 1881, aged 16 years, with Ballarat Imperials before transferring to powerful VFA club South Melbourne in 1885. South Melbourne (VFA) He played 126 games for South and played in four premierships before joining Geelong in 1892. Geelong (VFA and VFL) In his last VFA game, in Round 20 of 1896, Burns played his 216th career game to break the Victorian elite football games record held by former South Melbourne teammate an ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tom Maguire (footballer)
Thomas Joseph Maguire (24 December 1873 – 26 August 1944) was an Australian rules footballer who played with Geelong in the Victorian Football League (VFL). Family Thomas Maguire, aged 26 married Catherine Frances Kennelly, aged 25 in Ballarat, Victoria, in 1900. Tom and Catherine moved to Ararat and this is where five of the children were born between 1901 and 1910. William Joseph (1901), Mary Elizabeth (1903), Thomas “Jack” (1905), Ethel Josephine (1906), Joseph (1910). The family moved to Brunswick where Catherine Margaret (1913) was born. Tom, Catherine and their children moved to Beechworth where Tom was appointed Head Warden of Beechworth Asylum. Another daughter Imelda Mary (1916) was born. Later in life, Thomas and Catherine moved to Moonee Ponds, Tom Maguire passing away in 1944, aged 70. He is buried at the Melbourne Cemetery. Catherine passed away in 1970, aged 95. She is buried alongside her husband. Football Maguire played for Wellington Football Club (1 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
