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Camperdown Football Club
The Camperdown Football Netball Club, nicknamed the ''Magpies'', is an Australian rules football and netball club based in the town of Camperdown, Victoria, Camperdown, Victoria (Australia), Victoria. The club teams currently compete in the Hampden Football Netball League, which Camperdown is founding member, having joined in 1930. History The first Camperdown club was formed in 1877 but it disbanded within an few years with accumulated debts. A second attempt in 1883 is the club that continues today. The late 1880s and 1890s the club usually participated in a four team competition that a wealthy patron would donate a shield as a prize. Usually it was four clubs, Camperdown, Cobden, Mortlake and Terang. This arrangement continued until 1901. In August 1901, local soldier Trooper Lawrence was killed in action during the Boer War. There is a memorial to the west of the town's clocktower. The Moran trophy consisted of four teams, in order of finish, Camperdown (undefeated), Cob ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hampden Football Netball League
The Hampden Football Netball League is an Australian rules football and netball league based in South-Western Victoria, with clubs located in towns along or near the Princes Highway from Camperdown to Portland. The league is a major country league. It comprises an amalgamation of the Hampden Football League with the women's netball league with the same teams and playing draw. History The ''Hampden Football League'' was formed in 1930, when the four founding clubs broke away from the Western District FL. Terang and Camperdown did not want to continue to travel to Hamilton because their players were farmers who could not spend all day away from the farm to play football, as they had cows to milk. Mortlake agreed with Camperdown and Terang and resigned from the WDFL. Cobden was left with a predicament, and requested admittance to the new league. In 1933, South Warrnambool and Warrnambool joined the league, as takings at the gate had been greater when playing Camperdown or ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alf Clay
Alf Clay (8 January 1914 – 24 January 1995) was an Australian rules footballer who played with Hawthorn, Footscray, Fitzroy and North Melbourne in the Victorian Football League (VFL). It wasn't until Clay came to Fitzroy that he gained regular senior selection, having been a fringe player at both Hawthorn and Footscray. He kicked four goals on debut for Fitzroy in 1940, against St Kilda at Brunswick Street Oval. After making just five appearances that year, Clay played a total of 35 games in his next three seasons. In 1943 he played in a semi final but missed out on Fitzroy's premiership the following year when he crossed to North Melbourne early in the season. He was of no relation to the Clay twins, Bert Bert or BERT may refer to: Persons, characters, or animals known as Bert *Bert (name), commonly an abbreviated forename and sometimes a surname *Bert, a character in the poem "Bert the Wombat" by The Wiggles; from their 1992 album Here Comes a Son ... and Ivor, who pl ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Scott Lucas (footballer)
Scott Lucas (born 30 December 1977) is a former Australian rules footballer for the Essendon Football Club in the Australian Football League, and is noted as the other major forward for the Bombers along with Matthew Lloyd. Together, Lloyd and Lucas were affectionately dubbed the "twin towers" due to their height in the Bomber forward line. Football career Lucas is known for his strong marking and being a powerful, accurate left-foot kick, although his apparent inability to kick with his right foot is almost as notable. Lucas once joked on '' The Sunday Footy Show'' in 2006 that the last time he kicked with his right foot was to Gary Moorcroft when he took the 2001 Mark of the Year. He mainly played across half-forward or centre half-forward, but also played at centre half-back and full-forward. Lucas regularly had shots on goal from outside 60 metres with his booming left foot, and he rarely handballed, averaging less than 3 handballs a match. In Round 19, 2005, Lucas pl ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Paul Broderick
Paul Broderick (born 3 January 1970) is a former Australian rules footballer who played in the VFL/AFL between 1988 and 1993 for the Fitzroy Football Club and then from 1994 until 2001 for the Richmond Football Club. He won the Richmond Best and Fairest award in 1996 File:1996 Events Collage.png, From left, clockwise: A Centennial Olympic Park bombing, bomb explodes at Centennial Olympic Park in Atlanta, set off by a radical Anti-abortion violence, anti-abortionist; The center fuel tank explodes on TWA Flight 8 .... References * Hogan P: ''The Tigers Of Old'', Richmond FC, Melbourne 1996 External links * * Fitzroy Football Club players Richmond Football Club players Jack Dyer Medal winners Australian rules footballers from Victoria (state) Camperdown Football Club players Living people 1970 births {{AFL-bio-1970s-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ross Thornton
Ross Thornton (born 23 October 1956) is a former Australian rules footballer who played with Fitzroy in the VFL during the 1980s. Thornton originally arrived at Fitzroy in 1975 but was unable to make the seniors so joined VFA club Prahran. He returned to Fitzroy in 1980 and became a regular fixture in their defence for the rest of the decade, usually occupying a back pocket from where he liked to run the ball up the ground. A personal highlight came in 1984 when he won Fitzroy's Best and fairest award. In 2003 he was selected in Prahran's Team of the Century. Thornton appeared on the second season of ''The Amazing Race Australia ''The Amazing Race Australia'' is an Australian adventure reality game show based on the international ''Amazing Race'' franchise. Following the premise of other versions of the format, the show follows teams of two as they race around the wor ...'' with his daughter Tarryn, and was eliminated in 8th place in Turkey on Episode 6. References ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Wayne Linton
Wayne Linton (born 21 October 1955) is a former 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). Children: Ben Linton, Bianca Linton and James Linton. Notes External links * * {{DEFAULTSORT:Linton, Wayne Living people 1955 births Australian rules footballers from Victoria (state) Fitzroy Football Club players Camperdown Football Club players ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Garrey Wynd
Garrey Wynd (born 31 October 1946) is a former Australian rules footballer who played with Melbourne in the Victorian Football League (VFL). Wynd, a centreman, was recruited from Camperdown. He made just two appearances for Melbourne, in the 1966 VFL season, against Collingwood at Victoria Park and Footscray at Western Oval. He then went on to play with Prahran in the Victorian Football Association. Two sons, Paul and Scott, played in the Australian Football League, the latter a Brownlow Medal The Charles Brownlow Trophy, better known as the Brownlow Medal (and informally as "Charlie"), is awarded to the " best and fairest" player in the Australian Football League (AFL) during the home-and-away season, as determined by votes cast by ...list. References {{DEFAULTSORT:Wynd, Garrey 1946 births Australian rules footballers from Victoria (state) Melbourne Football Club players Prahran Football Club players Camperdown Football Club players Living people ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Peter Wood (footballer, Born 1946)
Peter Wood (born 27 January 1946) is a former 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). Notes External links * * Living people 1946 births Australian rules footballers from Victoria (state) Fitzroy Football Club players Oakleigh Football Club players Camperdown Football Club players {{AFL-bio-1940s-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Brian Williams (Australian Footballer)
Brian Williams (14 September 1936 – 19 January 2010) was a former 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). Notes External links * * {{DEFAULTSORT:Williams, Brian 1936 births 2010 deaths Australian rules footballers from Victoria (state) Fitzroy Football Club players Camperdown Football Club players ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Barry Rippon
Barry Rippon (born 30 March 1940) is a former Australian rules footballer who played for the Fitzroy 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 * * {{DEFAULTSORT:Rippon, Barry Living people 1940 births Australian rules footballers from Victoria (state) Fitzroy Football Club players Camperdown Football Club players ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Brian Carroll (Australian Footballer)
Brian Carroll (born 25 March 1941) is a former Australian rules footballer, who played 10 matches for Fitzroy in 1963. Family He is the father of current Collingwood Head of academy and former Box Hill coach and former Hawthorn assistant coach Damian Carroll. Football Saturday, 6 July 1963 On 6 July 1963, playing in the back-pocket, he was a member of the young and inexperienced Fitzroy team that comprehensively and unexpectedly defeated Geelong, 9.13 (67) to 3.13 (31) in the 1963 Miracle Match. See also * 1963 Miracle Match The 1963 Miracle Match was an Australian rules football game contested in the second half of the 1963 VFL season home-and-away competition’s round 10 "split round" matches. The match, between the Fitzroy Football Club and the Geelong Fo ... Notes External links * {{DEFAULTSORT:Carroll, Brian 1941 births Fitzroy Football Club players Living people Australian rules footballers from Victoria (state) Camperdown Football Club players [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bryan King (Australian Footballer)
Bryan King (born 27 July 1935) is a former Australian rules footballer who played with St Kilda in the Victorian Football League (VFL). See also * Australian football at the 1956 Summer Olympics Australian rules football was one of two demonstration sports at the 1956 Summer Olympics held in Melbourne. The International Olympic Committee (IOC) stipulated that each Summer Olympics host must organise both a "national" game and a spo ... Notes External links * * {{DEFAULTSORT:King, Bryan Living people 1935 births Australian rules footballers from Victoria (state) St Kilda Football Club players Camperdown Football Club players ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
