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1900 VFL Grand Final
The 1900 VFL Grand Final was an Australian rules football game contested between the Melbourne Football Club and Fitzroy Football Club, held at the East Melbourne Cricket Ground in Melbourne on 22 September 1900. It was the 3rd annual Grand Final of the Victorian Football League, staged to determine the premiers for the 1900 VFL season. The match, attended by 20,181 spectators, was won by Melbourne by a margin of 4 points. Lead-up Although Melbourne only won six of its fourteen home-and-away fixtures to finish sixth on the ladder, it won its sectional round-robin and defeated the other sectional winner, , in the semi-final for the right to face the minor premiers, Fitzroy, in the Grand Final; Fitzroy had won the previous two premierships and was aiming for a third premiership in a row. The winner of this match would win the premiership. Teams Arthur Sowden, and Bill Bowe were unable to play for the Melbourne team, due to injury, and Eric Gardner was unavailable. * Umpi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Eddie Sholl
Edward Sholl (15 April 1872 – 29 June 1952) was an Australian rules footballer who played for the Melbourne Football Club in the Victorian Football League (VFL). Sholl played six games in the 1897 inaugural VFL season, three of which were finals. He captained Melbourne in 1899 and in the same year represented Victoria in an interstate fixture against South Australia. A fullback, he kept Gerald Brosnan goal-less in the 1900 VFL Grand Final The 1900 VFL Grand Final was an Australian rules football game contested between the Melbourne Football Club and Fitzroy Football Club, held at the East Melbourne Cricket Ground in Melbourne on 22 September 1900. It was the 3rd annual Grand F ..., which Melbourne won. References External links * 1872 births 1952 deaths Melbourne Football Club players Melbourne Football Club captains Australian rules footballers from Melbourne Melbourne Football Club (VFA) players North Melbourne Football Club (VFA) players Melbourne ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tommy Ryan (Australian Footballer)
Jeremiah "Tommy" Ryan (12 August 1873 – 29 August 1948) was an Australian rules footballer who played for the Melbourne Football Club and St Kilda Football Club in the Victorian Football League (VFL). Ryan, a rover and forward, came to Melbourne from Richmond City. He had spent 1893, 1895 and 1896 playing in the Victorian Football Association (VFA) for both Carlton and Richmond. On his VFL debut, Ryan kicked five goals as Melbourne defeated St Kilda by 93 points at the MCG. He was the club's leading goal-kicker in their premiership year of 1900 with 24 goals, one of those in the 1900 VFL Grand Final which he played from a forward pocket In the sport of Australian rules football, each of the eighteen players in a team is assigned to a particular named position on the field of play. These positions describe both the player's main role and by implication their location on the gro .... References *Holmesby, Russell and Main, Jim (2007). ''The Encyclopedia of AFL Footballe ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Stewart Geddes
Stewart Drummond "Nip" Geddes (6 March 1879 – 6 May 1952) was an Australian rules footballer who played for the Melbourne Football Club and St Kilda Football Club in the Victorian Football League (VFL). Family The youngest of the seven children of William Geddes (1827–1886), and Catherine Stewart Geddes (1833–1906), née Lilburn, Stewart Drummond Geddes was born in Richmond, Victoria on 6 March 1879. He died at Trafalgar, Victoria on 6 May 1952. Football :"'Nip' Geddes, a follower, ranks with the best the State has produced. He was a brilliant high mark and a fine drop-kick." :"Possibly the finest exponent of he stab kickwe have ever seen … Nip's reputation was that he could, running at his top, stab a bail on to a threepenny piece thirty yards away." Melbourne (VFL) Geddes arrived from Richmond Juniors as a defender but was used mostly on the ball by Melbourne. He took part in the historic 1897 VFL finals series and played in the 1900 VFL Grand Final, where he kicke ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dick Wardill
Richard Cameron Wardill (5 July 1872 – 28 August 1929) was an Australian rules footballer and coach who played for the Melbourne Football Club in the Victorian Football League (VFL). Family The son of Richard Wilson Wardill (1840-1873) — the brother of Benjamin Johnston Wardill (1842-1917)— and Eliza Helena Lovett Wardill (1848-1943), née Cameron, later Mrs. Edward Thomas Tatham, Richard Cameron Wardill was born in Melbourne on 5 July 1872. Marriage He married Dorothy Elspeth Wilson (1880-1952), at Mosman, New South Wales, on 17 December 1909. They had four children: Elspeth Margaret Wardill (1912-2001), later Mrs. Donald Hastings Bennett, Richard David Wardill (1916-2003), Diana Mary Wardill (1920-2003), later Mrs. Godfrey Robert Donaldson, and Dorothy Wardill (b.1914, who only lived for 8 days). Father's suicide ::"In 1872-73 ichard WilsonWardill had serious personal problems probably because of speculation in mining shares; he embezzled £7000 from his employer ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Frank Langley
Francis Ernest Langley (13 October 1882 – 22 March 1946) was an Australian rules footballer who played for the Melbourne Football Club in the Victorian Football League (VFL) during the early 1900s. Family The son of Henry Archdall Langley (1840–1906), Anglican Bishop of Bendigo, and Elizabeth Mary Langley (1842–1923), née Strachan, and the tenth of 12 children, Langley was born at Prahran on 13 October 1882. One of his elder brothers, Henry Thomas Langley, became Dean of Melbourne, while many of his other siblings took roles within the Anglican church and the education system. He married Lillie Kate Mills (1876–1967), the daughter of George Peter Mills (1835–1933), and Mary "Minnie" Mills (1848–1913), née Kyte, on 25 April 1908. Education Langley was educated at Caulfield Grammar School, and at Trinity College, University of Melbourne where he earned a Bachelor of Medicine, Bachelor of Surgery degree. After completing university he worked as a medical pra ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jack Leith
John Goodwin 'Jack' Leith (12 August 1872 – 24 April 1935) was an Australian rules footballer who played for the Melbourne Football Club in the early years of the Australian Football League, Victorian Football League (VFL). Leith was a forward and prior to joining Melbourne in the last Victorian Football Association (VFA) season in 1896 played with Carlton. He was a centre half forward in Melbourne's 1900 premiership team and topped the club's goalkicking on five occasions in his career: 1896, 1897, 1899, 1902 and 1907. When having a set shot at goal he used the place kick and once, in a game against St Kilda, kicked five goals from place kicks. He retired at the end of the 1908 season but returned to the league in 1911 when Melbourne were struggling, this time playing as a defender. References External links * * 1872 births 1935 deaths Australian rules footballers from Victoria (Australia) Australian Rules footballers: place kick exponents Carlton Football Club ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Austin Lewis (footballer)
Austin William "Goosey" Lewis (26 May 1870 – 19 September 1937) was an Australian rules footballer who played for the Melbourne Football Club in the Victorian Football Association (VFA) and Victorian Football League (VFL). He played in the 1900 premiership under the captaincy of Dick Wardill. Football Lewis made his VFL debut against in round 1 of the 1897 VFL season at the Lake Oval, having played 113 matches (eight for Richmond and 105 for Melbourne) in the VFA. Lewis retired in 1903 after 87 VFL games, for a career total of exactly 200. His 192 games for Melbourne included the club's 1900 Grand Final win, and was the club record until it was broken by Percy Beames in Round 14, 1943. At the conclusion of his playing career, Lewis became a curator at the Melbourne Cricket Ground The Melbourne Cricket Ground (MCG), also known locally as "The 'G", is an Australian sports stadium located in Yarra Park, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia, Victoria. Founded and managed by ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Harold Hay
Harold Dudley Hay (31 December 1881 – 27 December 1955) was an Australian rules footballer who played for the Melbourne Football Club in the Victorian Football League (VFL). Family His brother, Cedric Rupert Hay (1880–1953), also played VFL football for Melbourne. Football Melbourne (VFL) Hay became one of the club's first premiership players, playing in the 1900 VFL Grand Final, under the captaincy of Dick Wardill. He made his debut against in Round 13 of the 1900 VFL season, at the Melbourne Cricket Ground. "Heritage number" Hay has been given the Melbourne Heritage Number of 81 (his brother, Ced, has 82), based on the order of his debut for the club. Death Hay died at his home, the Langi Oonah homestead, in Barooga, New South Wales, just across the Murray River from Cobram Cobram is a town in the Australian state of Victoria. It is on the Murray River which forms the border between Victoria and New South Wales. Cobram along with the nearby towns of Numurkah and ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Charlie Young (footballer, Born 1877)
Charles Herbert Lockyer Young (7 December 1877 – 22 February 1914) was an Australian rules footballer who played the Melbourne Football Club in the Victorian Football League (VFL). He became one of the club's first premiership players, playing in the 1900 VFL Grand Final, under the captaincy of Dick Wardill. Young made his debut against in Round 1 of the 1897 VFL season, at the Lake Oval, and topped the club's goalkicker tally in 1898 Events January–March * January 1 – New York City annexes land from surrounding counties, creating the City of Greater New York as the world's second largest. The city is geographically divided into five boroughs: Manhattan, B .... He has been given the Melbourne Heritage Number of 20, based on the order of his debut for the club. Young was named in 2008 as a "legend of the game" on the club's 150th anniversary. References External links * 1877 births 1914 deaths Melbourne Football Club players Australian r ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Corrie Gardner
Henry Corris "Corrie" Gardner (12 March 1879 – 6 August 1960) was an Australian track and field athlete who competed in the 1904 Summer Olympics, and played Australian rules football for Essendon Football Club and Melbourne Football Club. Gardner was a member of the Melburnian Hare & Hounds Athletics Club and when aged 25 years old he travelled to St. Louis, Illinois, to compete at the 1904 Summer Olympics, on arrival he was surprised no accommodation had been arranged and was sent to a park to the tent community. In the competition he first entered the long jump, with no qualification round it was straight in to the final, there are no official records of the distance he jumped but it is known he finished outside the first six out of nine athletes. A couple of days later he was on the track competing in the 110 metres hurdles, although his time isn't known he did finish last in his heat so didn't qualify for the final later that day. Gardner was the Australian national ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
William C
William is a male given name of Germanic origin.Hanks, Hardcastle and Hodges, ''Oxford Dictionary of First Names'', Oxford University Press, 2nd edition, , p. 276. It became very popular in the English language after the Norman conquest of England in 1066,All Things William"Meaning & Origin of the Name"/ref> and remained so throughout the Middle Ages and into the modern era. It is sometimes abbreviated "Wm." Shortened familiar versions in English include Will, Wills, Willy, Willie, Bill, and Billy. A common Irish form is Liam. Scottish diminutives include Wull, Willie or Wullie (as in Oor Wullie or the play ''Douglas''). Female forms are Willa, Willemina, Wilma and Wilhelmina. Etymology William is related to the given name ''Wilhelm'' (cf. Proto-Germanic ᚹᛁᛚᛃᚨᚺᛖᛚᛗᚨᛉ, ''*Wiljahelmaz'' > German ''Wilhelm'' and Old Norse ᚢᛁᛚᛋᛅᚼᛅᛚᛘᛅᛋ, ''Vilhjálmr''). By regular sound changes, the native, inherited English form of th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
