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1921 Perth Carnival
The 1921 Perth Carnival was the fourth edition of the Australian National Football Carnival, an Australian rules football interstate competition, staged in August 1921. It was the first carnival to take place in Perth and was won by the home state, Western Australia. The decision to stage the carnival in Perth represented a significant additional expense for the carnival, as the transcontinental travel expenses for the visiting states were much higher. New South Wales and Queensland quickly withdrew, and Tasmania equivocated but ultimately decided likewise, resulting in a small carnival of only three teams. Nevertheless, the council saw benefit in staging the carnival in Perth to consolidate the strength of Australian rules football in the city, as it had seen post-war growth in the popularity of soccer as a rival code. Ultimately, the carnival made a good profit, with a total gate of £5530 more than covering the visiting teams' travel expenses of £2000. The crowd of 26,461 draw ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Australian Rules Football
Australian football, also called Australian rules football or Aussie rules, or more simply football or footy, is a contact sport played between two teams of 18 players on an oval field, often a modified cricket ground. Points are scored by kicking the oval ball between the central goal posts (worth six points), or between a central and outer post (worth one point, otherwise known as a "behind"). During general play, players may position themselves anywhere on the field and use any part of their bodies to move the ball. The primary methods are kicking, handballing and running with the ball. There are rules on how the ball can be handled; for example, players running with the ball must intermittently bounce or touch it on the ground. Throwing the ball is not allowed, and players must not get caught holding the ball. A distinctive feature of the game is the mark, where players anywhere on the field who catch the ball from a kick (with specific conditions) are awarded unimped ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lloyd Hagger
Lloyd Hagger (7 December 1898 – 27 June 1968) was an Australian rules footballer who played with Geelong Football Club in the Victorian Football League (1897–1989), Victorian Football League (VFL) from 1917 VFL season, 1917 to 1929 VFL season, 1929. Football Recruited from Barwon Football Club, Barwon in the Geelong & District Football League, Geelong & District Football Association, Hagger played as a key position forward and was known for his high marking and ability to kick goals from difficult angles. Named captain-coach of Geelong in 1924 VFL season, 1924, Hagger was captain for only one season, handing the job over to Cliff Rankin. In 1925 VFL season, 1925 Geelong won the premiership and Hagger was the Coleman Medal, League's leading goalkicker, with 78 for the season. He also regularly played for Victoria in interstate matches. At the 1924 Hobart Carnival, Hagger, playing for Victoria against Western Australia, kicked seven goals in Victoria's eight point win. Lat ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bonny Campbell
Hugh "Bonny" Campbell (1 March 1898 – 28 April 1987) was an Australian rules footballer who played 188 West Australian Football League (WAFL) games and kicked 630 goals. He was a star full forward in the WAFL, a regular West Australian interstate representative, and famously for kicked 23 goals in a game for Western Australia against Queensland at the 1924 Hobart Carnival. Football Campbell played school football for Kingston ex-Scholars in the North Fremantle area. After playing for Kingston in a curtain raiser to a 1915 WAFL match between North Fremantle and South Fremantle, he offered to back up and play the senior game for North Fremantle, which was one man short. He played with North Fremantle for much of the rest of the season, after which the club folded. Playing as a half back flanker he helped South Fremantle to win back to back premierships in 1916 and 1917. A few years later, South Fremantle lost its regular full-forward to injury, and Campbell was asked to fill ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bill Adams (Australian Footballer)
William John Adams (11 December 1900 – 11 August 1973) was an Australian rules footballer who played for Fitzroy and Melbourne in the Victorian Football League (VFL) before becoming coach of South Melbourne. He also went by his nickname of "Bull" during his career. Football Adams was originally from South Fremantle where he played 32 games from his debut in 1921. In his first season, he was included in the Western Australian squad for the Perth Carnival, but did not manage a game. Adams came to Melbourne in 1923 to play with Fitzroy, but was refused a clearance by South Fremantle and instead became captain-coach of Preston in the Victorian Junior Football Association ''(pictured right with John Wren Shield as premiers)''. Adams was cleared the following year and played in the Fitzroy side which contested the finals that season. He was club captain for their 1926 campaign and as well as finishing equal fifth in the Brownlow Medal count he represented Victoria at interstat ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cyril Hoft
Cyril Louis Hoft (24 September 1896 – 5 July 1949) was an Australian rules footballer who played for the and Perth Football Clubs in the West Australian Football League (WAFL) and the Glenelg Football Club in the South Australian Football League (SAFL). Family and early life The son of Herman Hoft (-1936), and Amelia Ann Hoft (-1954), née Haley, Cyril Louis Hoft was born on 24 September 1896. He grew up in the South-West region of Western Australia, moving to Perth to attend Scotch College, where he played in the school's football team. He married Dorothy Marjorie Davies, in Perth, on 22 June 1925. Football North Fremantle (WAFL) Because his school was located in recruitment zone, Hoft began his career with that club, playing eleven games for North Fremantle in 1914. Third Divisional team (AIF) He played for the (winning) Third Australian Divisional team in the famous "Pioneer Exhibition Game" of Australian Rules football, held in London, in October 1916 that had been ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
William "Digger" Thomas
William Alfred Benjamin "Digger" Thomas (3 June 1890 – 6 October 1953) was an Australian rules footballer who played with East Perth and Subiaco in the West Australian Football League (WAFL). He is always mentioned in football records with his nickname, Digger, as there was another William Thomas (not related) who also appeared for East Perth and won a Sandover Medal six years after Digger Thomas did. Thomas, who was born in Broken Hill, started out in the Goldfields Football League where he played for the Warriors. He joined the WAFL in 1911 and played 32 games for Subiaco, including their 1913 premiership team; Thomas had missed their inaugural premiership side the previous year as he had been suspended for striking. After a season with East Fremantle in 1917, Thomas transferred to East Perth where he would spend the rest of his career. He was a member of six premierships, five of them in succession, and won a Sandover Medal in 1923 to become the first ever East Perth pla ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
William "Nipper" Truscott
William John "Nipper" Truscott Jr. (9 October 1886 in Lithgow, New South Wales – 20 June 1966 in East Fremantle, Western Australia) was an Australian sportsman. He played over 300 games of Australian rules football for Mines Rovers in the Goldfields Football League (GFL) and in the West Australian Football League, and represented Western Australia at football, cricket and lawn bowls. He was inducted into the Sport Australia Hall of Fame in 1985 and the Australian Football Hall of Fame in 1996. Early life Born to Susannah (née Strickland) and William John Truscott in Lithgow, Truscott grew up in Sydney where he played rugby football. He moved with his family to Kalgoorlie on the Western Australian Goldfields at the age of 14, and began playing for the Trafalgar Football Club's junior side. Football career Truscott was a durable rover (175 cm, 66 kg), who played to age 41. Lithgow born Truscott was a doyen of West Australian football, and an all round sportsm ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mark Tandy (footballer)
Mark Henry "Napper" Tandy (3 September 1892 – 17 March 1965) was an Australian rules footballer in the (then) Victorian Football League in the early 20th century. Family The son of Henry Thomas Tandy, and Catherine Lucy Tandy (1860–1945), née Williams, Mark Henry Tandy was born in Newport, Victoria on 3 September 1892. He married Lily Ford in 1917. Football His quiet and easy-going nature led to Roy Cazaly calling him "Napper" – "the inglorious nickname "Napper" … apparently arose because of his alleged propensity for "switching off" during games" (John Devaney, ''Full Points Footy Publications''). A supremely accomplished rover/wingman who, along with Roy Cazaly, tore the heart out of the opposition. Playing as a wingman early in his career, he brought South Melbourne their second premiership in the 1918 Grand Final. With South trailing by a point, Tandy made an inspired run down the wing to deliver the ball into the forward lines where Laird kicked the winning goa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Roy Cazaly
Roy Cazaly (13 January 1893 – 10 October 1963) was an Australian rules footballer who played for South Melbourne and St Kilda in the Victorian Football League (VFL). He also represented Victoria and Tasmania in interstate football, and after his retirement as a player, turned to coaching. Known for his ruck work and high-flying marks, he inspired the common catchphrase "Up there, Cazaly!", which in 1979 became a popular song of the same name, securing his place in Australian folklore. Cazaly was one of 12 inaugural "Legends" inducted into the Australian Football Hall of Fame. Family Cazaly was born in Albert Park, a suburb of Melbourne, on 13 January 1893. He was the tenth child of English-born James Cazaly and his wife Elizabeth Jemima (née McNee). James Cazaly was a renowned sculler and rower in Melbourne. Just before 6 July 1878 he was eliminated in a "semi-final" for the sculling championship of Victoria by the eventual victor, Charles A. Messenger. Elizabeth was a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bill Cubbins
William Tennyson Cubbins (4 May 1899 – 3 January 1968) was an Australian rules footballer who played in the Victorian Football League (VFL). Cubbins played with St Kilda as possibly the greatest full back of his time. He won a record four club best and fairest awards (equalled by Robert Harvey). Cubbins was an excellent mark and long kick. He was captain / coach of Warrnambool Warrnambool ( Maar: ''Peetoop'' or ''Wheringkernitch'' or ''Warrnambool'') is a city on the south-western coast of Victoria, Australia. At the 2021 census, Warrnambool had a population of 35,743. Situated on the Princes Highway, Warrnambool (Al ... in 1927 and lead them to the premiership of the Western District Football Association. He returned to St. Kilda in 1928. In Round 14 of the 1920 Reserves season, Cubbins kicked a reserve grade record 22 goals in St Kilda FC's 230 point win over West Melbourne 38.27 (255) to 3.7 (25), including 12.4 (76) of the Saints 12.6 (78) in the final quarter. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Vic Thorp
Victor Charles Thorp (25 October 1890 – 1 October 1941) was an Australian rules footballer for the Richmond Football Club in the Victorian Football League between 1910 and 1925. Nicknamed "Flippa", Thorp was the first true champion player to emerge at Richmond after their admission to the VFL in 1908. A natural defender who showed great judgement, superior ball skills and fierce concentration, Thorp was considered the best player in the game at his position, full back. His battles with Collingwood forward Dick Lee were a highlight of the era. Thorp was one of many great players who grew up in the shadow of the Tigers' Punt Road Oval and served the club loyally for many years, thus influencing the development of the parochial culture of the Richmond club. Family The fifth and youngest child of Charles Frederick Thorp (1855–1928), and Emma Florance "Amy" Thorp (1858–1942), née Brandon, Victor Charles Thorp was born at Fitzroy, Victoria on 25 October 1890. Marriage He m ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
James Smith (Australian Rules Footballer)
Cyril James 'Jimmy' Smith (25 January 1899 – 11 January 1974) was an Australian rules footballer who played in the VFL between 1917 and 1926 for the Richmond Football Club The Richmond Football Club, nicknamed the Tigers, is an Australian rules football team playing in the Australian Football League (AFL). Between its inception in the Melbourne suburb of Richmond in 1885 and 1907, the club competed in the Victo .... Smith also served on the Richmond Football Club Committee between 1927 and 1931.Hogan P: ''The Tigers Of Old'', Richmond FC, Melbourne 1996 References External links * Richmond Football Club players Richmond Football Club Premiership players Australian rules footballers from Victoria (Australia) 1899 births 1974 deaths Two-time VFL/AFL Premiership players {{AFL-bio-1899-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
