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1955 VFL Grand Final
The 1955 VFL Grand Final was an Australian rules football game contested between the Melbourne Football Club and Collingwood Football Club, held at the Melbourne Cricket Ground on 17 September 1955. It was the 58th annual Grand Final of the Victorian Football League, staged to determine the premiers for the 1955 VFL season. The match, attended by 88,053 spectators, was won by Melbourne by 28 points, marking that club's seventh premiership victory. A scene from the game is captured in Jamie Cooper's painting ''The Game That Made Australia'', commissioned by the AFL in 2008 to celebrate the 150th anniversary of the sport.Australian Football LeagueThe Game That Made Australia retrieved 19 September 2010 Teams {, , valign="top", *Umpire: Harry Beitzel Henry John "Harry" Beitzel (6 April 1927 – 13 August 2017) was an Australian football umpire, print, radio and television sports broadcaster and media personality best known for his contribution to Australian rules footb ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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AFL may refer to: Sports * American Football League (AFL), a name shared by several separate and unrelated professional American football leagues: ** American Football League (1926) (a.k.a. "AFL I"), first rival of the National Football League (NFL) that competed in 1926 ** American Football League (1934), regional borderline-major league that competed in 1934 ** American Football League (1936) (a.k.a. "AFL II"), second rival of the NFL that competed in 1936 and 1937 ** American Football League (1938), minor professional American football league that changed its name to the American Professional Football Association in 1939 ** American Football League (1940) (a.k.a. "AFL III"), third rival of the NFL that competed in 1940 and 1941 ** American Football League (1944), offshoot of the Pacific Coast Professional Football League, played one year before merging back with the PCPFL ** American Football League (1946), name adopted by the American Association minor American football lea ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ian McLean (footballer)
Ian McLean (27 August 192923 March 1965) was an Australian rules football player in the Victorian Football League, (VFL). Family The son of Alexander Leonard McLean (1887–1956), and Elsie May McLean (1888–1961), née Robertson, Ian McLean was born at Bendigo, Victoria on 27 August 1929. He married Rita Joan Driver in 1955. Football Ian McLean played in Melbourne premiership teams in 1955, 1957 and 1959, and well as the runner-up side of 1954. Courageous, quick both over the ground and in terms of reflexes, and a smooth ball handler, McLean, who hailed from Bendigo, played a total of 146 VFL games and booted 29 goals for the Demons between 1951 and 1960. Death He died at his residence in Chadstone, Victoria Chadstone is a suburb in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia, south-east of Melbourne's Central Business District, located within the City of Monash local government area. Chadstone recorded a population of 9,552 at the 2021 census. Landmarks ... on 23 March 1 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Frank 'Bluey' Adams
Frank Adams (12 June 1935 – 11 August 2019), known as Bluey Adams, was an Australian rules football player, who played in the Victorian Football League (VFL) for the Melbourne Football Club. Football His prime positions were in the 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 ..., where he was a regular, damaging goal-kicker, and as a rover and a wing-man, where he was able to use his great pace to advantage in the open spaces of the MCG. He was one of the fortunate few Melbourne players to be part of all six premierships the club gained during its ten 'golden years' from 1955 to 1964. Athletics Adams was a national champion professional sprinter. Adams won the 1957, 75 yards/130 yards Gift double at Cobram then a week later won the Lilydale Gift (130 yds) ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Terry Gleeson
Gerald "Terry" Gleeson (16 October 1933 – 18 February 2011) was an Australian rules football player in the Australian Football League, Victorian Football League (VFL). He was a reserve player in all his three AFL Grand Final, Grand Finals in 1955, 1956 and 1958. External links * Melbourne Football Club players Australian rules footballers from New South Wales 1933 births 2011 deaths Melbourne Football Club premiership players VFL/AFL premiership players {{AFL-bio-1930s-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Stuart Spencer (footballer)
Stuart Spencer (3 February 1932 – 27 September 2011) was an Australian rules footballer in the Australian Football League, Victorian Football League (VFL) and Tasmanian Football League (TFL) in the 1950s and 1960s. VFL Born in the small country town of Digby, Victoria, Spencer started his football career with the Portland Football Netball Cricket Club, playing 45 games. He then came to the attention of Geelong Football Club, Geelong in the VFL, where he started pre-season trialling in 1949. The Geelong coach, Reg Hickey, moved Spencer on after only two weeks, and he settled at Melbourne Football Club, Melbourne. Spencer made his League debut in 1950, but his career really took off with the arrival of Norm Smith as coach of Melbourne for the 1952 season. Spencer is quoted as saying that Smith told him: "'Stuey, there is time for you to go back to back pocket when you're 35', so he launched me into my role as rover." Spencer became an integral part of what was to beco ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ron Barassi
Ronald Dale Barassi Jr. (born 27 February 1936) is a former Australian rules footballer, coach and media personality. Regarded as one of the most important figures in the history of the game, Barassi was the first player to be inaugurated into the Australian Football Hall of Fame as a "Legend", and is one of three Australian rules footballers to be elevated to the same status in the Sport Australia Hall of Fame. When Barassi was five years old, his father, Melbourne Football Club player Ron Barassi Sr., died in action at Tobruk during World War II. Barassi was determined to follow in his father's footsteps at Melbourne, and heavy lobbying by the club to recruit him resulted in the introduction of the father-son rule, still in use by the AFL. Barassi subsequently lived with Norm Smith, Melbourne's then-coach and a former teammate of his father. Under Smith's mentorship, Barassi pioneered the ruck rover position and appeared in six premiership-winning sides, two of which he ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Denis Cordner
George Denis Pruen Cordner (28 June 1924 – 17 October 1990) was an Australian rules footballer, industrial chemist and diplomat. Early years Cordner was the third of four sons to Edward "Ted" Cordner and Margaret Constance née Pruen. Like his father, Cordner and his brothers Ted (1919-1996), Don (1922-2009) and John (1929-2016) were also notable sportsmen. All of them represented Melbourne Grammar School, University Blacks and in Australian rules football. Football Melbourne (VFL) Cordner made his senior VFL football debut in Round 5 of the 1943 VFL season for against at Punt Road Oval while on leave from the Royal Australian Navy. It was the only time he played with his older brothers Don and Ted. Cordner was flattened five seconds into the match, but recovered and went on to kick two goals in a losing cause. University Blacks (VAFA) Following the war, Cordner played in the Victorian Amateur Football Association (VAFA) for the University Blacks while studying a Bachel ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ian Ridley
Ian Jeffrey Ridley (15 February 1934 – 13 November 2008) was an Australian rules footballer who played for Melbourne in the VFL. Playing career Ridley was a rover who was handy around goals and a 5-time premiership player with Melbourne. He topped Melbourne's goalkicking in 1960 with 38 goals and went on to coach the club during the 1970s. Sports administration career From 1991 until 1996 he served as the President of Melbourne Football Club. Although a well loved player, he lost his popularity with his huge push for the Demons to merge with Hawthorn. After the merger was defeated, he was replaced with Joseph Gutnick. He was named as an emergency in their official 'Team of the Century'. See also *Melbourne Football Club/Hawthorn Football Club planned merger The Melbourne Hawks were a planned Australian Football League (AFL) team that would have consisted of the merger between the Melbourne and Hawthorn clubs at the end of the 1996 season. Out of all the proposed merger ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Noel Clarke (footballer)
Noel Arthur Clarke (26 December 1930 – 7 August 2022) was an Australian rules footballer who played in the Victorian Football League (VFL) and in Tasmania. Career begins in Tasmania Clarke signed with North Launceston at the start of the 1949 season, won the club's best first-year player award, and was among the better players on Grand Final day when North won the NTFA premiership. He was a star player the next season too when North Launceston won the State Premiership as well as another NTFA title. Moves to Melbourne Noel Clarke joined Melbourne in 1951 and played most games at full forward. He played a major role in the 1955 Melbourne premiership side by kicking three goals in the Grand Final. Return to Tasmania In early 1956 Clarke was cleared by Melbourne to play with North Hobart North Hobart is a suburb of the city of Hobart, Tasmania, Australia. As its name suggests, it lies directly north of the CBD. The main street of North Hobart is Elizabeth Street, whic ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bob Johnson (Australian Footballer, Born 1935)
Bob or Bobby Johnson may refer to: Arts and entertainment * Bob Johnson (actor) (1920–1993), voice actor noted for ''Mission: Impossible'' mission messages * Bob Johnston (1932–2015), American record producer * Bob Johnson (musician) (born 1944), British guitarist * Robert L. Johnson (born 1946), founder of Black Entertainment Television * Bob Johnson, a fictional father from the animated series ''Squirrel Boy'' * Bob Johnson, a professional name of Neil Kaplan (active from 1993), American voice actor Politics * Bob A. Johnson (1945–2017), American politician and school social worker * Bob Johnson (Arkansas state representative) (born 1953), member of the Arkansas House of Representatives since 2015 * Bob Johnson (Arkansas state senator) (born 1962), member of the Arkansas State Senate from 2001 to 2011 and the Arkansas House of Representatives from 1995 to 2000 Sports American football * Bob Johnson (American football) (born 1946), former American football center * Bobb ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bob McKenzie (footballer)
Robert Davis "Bobby" McKenzie III (19 December 1928 – 4 January 2012) was an Australian rules football player, who played 125 games for the Melbourne 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) between 1948 and 1955. His son, Robert McKenzie played 42 games for Melbourne in the late 1960s and early 1970s. References * * External links * Melbourne Football Club players 1928 births 2012 deaths Australian rules footballers from Victoria (state) Melbourne Football Club premiership players VFL/AFL premiership players {{AFL-bio-1920s-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Clyde Laidlaw
Clyde Robert Laidlaw (born 27 November 1933) is a former Australian rules footballer who played for Melbourne in the Victorian Football League (VFL). Football Clyde Laidlaw was a midfielder in his four winning Grand Finals Primarily in Australian sports, a grand final (sometimes colloquially abbreviated to "grannie") is a game that decides a sports league's premiership (or championship) winning team, i.e. the conclusive game of a finals (or play-off) series. Sy ... in 1955, 1956, 1959 and 1960. Business commitments restricted Laidlaw to just six games in 1957, with a thigh injury sidelining him from the finals series.Piesse (1993), p.169. Footnotes References Piesse, Ken (1993). The Complete Guide to Australian Football. Melbourne: Pan MacMillan Australia Pty Limited. External links * Clyde Laidlaw, at ''Demonwiki''.* 1933 births Living people Melbourne Football Club players Portland Football Club players Australian rules footballers from Victoria (Aust ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
