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1922 VFL Grand Final
The 1922 VFL Grand Final was an Australian rules football game contested between the Fitzroy Football Club and Collingwood Football Club, held at the Melbourne Cricket Ground in Melbourne on 14 October 1922. It was the 25th annual Grand Final of the Victorian Football League, staged to determine the premiers for the 1922 VFL season. The half-time break was more than thirty minutes.''The Argus'', 16 October 1922. The match, attended by 50,064 spectators, was won by Fitzroy by a margin of 11 points, marking that club's seventh premiership victory. Score Teams * Umpire - Jack Elder Statistics Goalkickers Footnotes References AFL Tables: 1922 Grand FinalFootball: Fitzroy First: A Dazzling Six Minutes, ''The Argus'', (Monday, 16 October 1922), p.3.Fitzroy Premiers: Keen, Strong Game, ''The Age'', (Monday, 16 October 1922), p.11. See also * 1922 VFL season {{DEFAULTSORT:1922 Vfl Grand Final VFL/AFL Grand Finals Grand Grand may refer to: People with the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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Collingwood, meaning "wood of disputed ownership", may refer to: Educational institutions * Collingwood College, Victoria, an Australian state Prep to Year 12 school * Collingwood College, Durham, college of Durham University, England * Collingwood College, Surrey, state secondary comprehensive technology college in Camberley, England * Collingwood School, university-preparatory school in West Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada Places Australia * Collingwood, Queensland, a ghost town west of Winton on the Western River * Collingwood, Victoria, an inner suburb of Melbourne * City of Collingwood, a former local government area in Victoria, Australia * Collingwood, Liverpool, a museum in Sydney Canada * Collingwood, Calgary, a neighbourhood in Calgary, Alberta * Collingwood, Vancouver, a neighbourhood in southeast Vancouver, British Columbia * Collingwood, Nova Scotia * Collingwood, Ontario New Zealand * Collingwood, New Zealand ** Collingwood (New Zealand electorate) Unite ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Clarrie Sherry
Clarence Alfred Woodward Sherry (4 June 1895 – 19 April 1977) was an Australian rules footballer who played with Fitzroy in the Victorian Football League (VFL). Sherry was one of Fitzroy's wingmen in their 1922 premiership team and also played in the side which lost the 1923 VFL Grand Final The 1923 VFL Grand Final was an Australian rules football game contested between the Essendon Football Club and Fitzroy Football Club, held at the Melbourne Cricket Ground in Melbourne on 20 October 1923. It was the 26th annual Grand Final o .... As he retired after the 1923 premiership decider, and missed most of that year, Sherry had appeared in two grand finals from his last five games. He was good enough to represent the VFL in interstate football on three occasions during his career. References 1895 births 1977 deaths Fitzroy Football Club players Fitzroy Football Club Premiership players Australian rules footballers from Victoria (state) One-time VFL/AFL Premiers ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ernie Wilson
Ernest George 'Ernie' Wilson (18 October 1900 – 7 June 1982) was an Australian rules footballer who played for Collingwood 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). Wilson featured in the Collingwood side during a strong era, playing in no less than six Grand Finals. He was on a half forward flank in their 1919 premiership but was used mostly as a defender. His other Grand Final appearances came in 1920, 1922, 1925 and 1926 while he was a half back flanker in the Collingwood premiership team of 1927. He could have added another in 1928, but lost his place in the side after the drawn semi final against Melbourne which would be his last game. In 1929 he played with Northcote in the VFA. He was reported in the last few minutes of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Vic Belcher
Victor George Belcher (24 August 1888 – 3 January 1977) was an Australian rules footballer, coach and umpire in the (then) Victorian Football League. Early life and family Belcher was born at Hall's Track (now known as Lebrina) north east of Launceston to William (a labourer) and Isabella Mary Belcher (née Mitchell). The family moved around Tasmania at the time, there having been two elder brothers born at New Norfolk, Allan (b 1884), and Albert Victor (b & d 1887) and in 1890 another brother Gabriel Lawrence was born at Formby (now Devonport). The family then moved to Victoria and in 1893 the birth of another brother Ernest Staley was registered in the Brunswick area of Melbourne. Playing career By the time Vic was seventeen years old he was still in the Brunswick area where he played for both All Stars and Coburg (VJFA) before joining his brother, Allan, at Brunswick Football Club in August 1905. Immediately successful as a defender, Belcher was selected in the b ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Clive Fergie
Clive Alfred Fergie (20 December 1895 – 13 August 1960) was an Australian rules footballer who played with Fitzroy Football Club, Fitzroy in the Australian Football League, Victorian Football League (VFL). Fergie played his early football at Scotch College, Melbourne, Scotch College before starting his league career in 1915. After appearing in the opening three rounds of the 1916 VFL season, he embarked for Europe to serve with the 3rd Machine Gun Battalion (Australia), 3rd Machine Gun Battalion in the war and would fight on the Western Front (World War I), Western Front. He was awarded both a British War Medal and Victory Medal (United Kingdom), Victory Medal for his war service. He returned to Australia in 1919 and played seven games for Fitzroy that year. In 1922 he was Fitzroy's first rover in their premiership side and also played in their team which lost the 1923 VFL Grand Final. References 1895 births Australian rules footballers from Melbourne Fitzroy Footbal ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Goldie Collins
Goldsmith Collins (16 September 1901 – 27 April 1982) was an Australian rules footballer who played with Fitzroy in the VFL. He made his debut with Fitzroy in 1922 and the following season was the club's best and fairest. His brothers, Harry and Norm both played for Fitzroy. Clashes with the law Vexatious litigant On 27 March 1953, on the basis of his having "instituted 40 litigations in the last five years", Collins was declared a vexatious litigant Vexatious litigation is legal action which is brought solely to harass or subdue an adversary. It may take the form of a primary frivolous lawsuit or may be the repetitive, burdensome, and unwarranted filing of meritless motions in a matter which .... Contempt of court Later that year, was jailed for four months, by the Supreme Court, for contempt of court, when he assaulted a detective who was attempting "to take him into custody to serve a term of one month imposed for an earlier contempt in writing insulting letters t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gordon McCracken
William Clifford Gordon McCracken, (22 March 1898 – 27 January 1964) was an Australian Commonwealth Note and Stamp Printer and an Australian rules footballer who played with Fitzroy in the Victorian Football League (VFL) during the 1920s. Football McCracken, who contested nine finals from 1922 to 1924, was Fitzroy's ruckman in the 1922 premiership side. He was again a follower in the 1923 Grand Final but was off the ground injured for much of the encounter and Fitzroy lost by 17 points. In the same year, McCracken represented the VFL at interstate football. Before arriving at Fitzroy, he played for Essendon Association in the Victorian Football Association 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 .... Note and Stamp Printing McCracken joined the Commonwealth Bank on 1 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Len Gale
Leonard George "Len" Gale (18 April 1897 – 25 June 1948) was an Australian rules footballer who played with Fitzroy in the Victorian Football League (VFL). Gale was one of many present and future footballers who fought in World War I. He enlisted with the Australian Army on 24 April 1917 and on November of that year embarked for overseas deployment. After serving as a Gunner with the 7th Field Artillery Brigade, Gale returned home in 1919. His football career was delayed by the war, but he would make his VFL debut in 1920, as a 23-year-old. Gale, who worked as a potterer, played his football as a rover. He was a rover in Fitzroy's 1922 premiership team, but started the game in a forward pocket. The following year he kicked 26 goals, to finish second in the Fitzroy goal-kicking. He would likely have kicked more if not for a six-week suspension that he received in round 16, for attempting to strike St Kilda's fullback Bill Cubbins. This cost him a spot in the 1923 VFL Gr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jimmy Freake
James Henry Freake (27 January 1889 – 19 May 1937) was an Australian rules footballer who played with Fitzroy 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). A full forward, Freake lacked the height and weight that most had for that position but had considerable pace and ball handling abilities. Freake was a member of two Fitzroy premiership sides, the first in 1913 and the other in 1922, when he kicked four goals in the Grand Final. He won the club's best and fairest award in 1918. His career tally of 442 goals is the fourth most achieved by a Fitzroy player and was a club record when he retired in 1924. He also kicked the most goals ever for Fitzroy in finals football with 45. Other goalkicking feats include being the first Fitzro ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Len Wigraft
Leonard Herman Wigraft (28 January 1897 – 16 January 1982) was an Australian rules footballer who played with Fitzroy in the Victorian Football League (VFL). Football Wigraft usually played as a follower and won a premiership with Fitzroy in 1922. He was also a three-time Best and Fairest winner with Fitzroy – in 1920, 1924 and 1925. He captained Fitzroy in his last season of football in 1927 and was briefly their caretaker coach in 1934. Len also coached Echuca in 1928 to their first premiership. He returned to Fitzroy in the 1930s and remained at Fitzroy as a delegate. In recognition to his long service to the Fitzroy football club and his playing abilities, he was inducted to the Fitzroy Hall of Fame. See also * 1927 Melbourne Carnival The 1927 Melbourne Carnival was the sixth Australian National Football Carnival: an Australian rules football interstate competition. New South Wales caused the biggest upset of the carnival when they defeated Tasmania by three p ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gordon Rattray
Gordon Kitchener Rattray (19 October 1898 – 10 December 1964) was an Australian rules footballer who played with and coached Fitzroy in the Victorian Football League (VFL). He was the first VFL player to use the torpedo punt. Family The son of Bruce Rattray (1860–1932) and Laura Rattray, née Barratt, Gordon Kitchener Rattray was born at Shepparton on 19 October 1898. He married Janet Elizabeth Wharton on 29 June 1922. They were divorced in 1938. He married Sylvia Catherine Burnet (1904–1980) in 1939. Education He was educated at Wesley College. Military service He enlisted in the First AIF on 21 April 1917. He was only 18 years and 6 months of age (i.e., under 21), but his parents gave formal permission to his enlisting and serving overseas. He served in France, returned to Australia on 2 January 1919, and was discharged on 2 March 1919. Football Fitzroy (VFL) A half-forward flanker, Rattray debuted for Fitzroy in 1917, but his progress was stalled when he missed the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Steve Donnellan
Steve Donnellan (12 November 1900 – 29 June 1934) was an Australian rules footballer who played with Fitzroy in the Victorian Football League (VFL). Football Donnellan came to Fitzroy from Cohuna and played 16 games in his debut season in 1922. He was the centre half-forward in Fitzroy's premiership team that year but made just 11 more appearances over the next three seasons. He played with Echuca in the Bendigo Football League The Bendigo Football Netball League (previously known as the Sandhurst Football Association, Bendigo and District Football Association, Bendigo Football Association and Bendigo Football League) is an Australian rules football and netball compe ... after leaving Fitzroy.'' The Argus'"Echuca" 15 October 1926, p. 18 Notes References * External links * 1900 births 1934 deaths Australian rules footballers from Victoria (state) Australian Rules footballers: place kick exponents Fitzroy Football Club players Fitzroy Football Club prem ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
