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Kevin Higgins (Australian Footballer)
Kevin Michael Patrick Higgins (20 February 1951 – 5 July 2019) was an Australian rules footballer who played for Geelong and Fitzroy in the Victorian Football League (VFL) during the 1970s. Career Originally from Bendigo Football League club Sandhurst, Higgins made his VFL debut in the opening round of 1970 in Geelong's nine-point win over Hawthorn at Glenferrie Oval. Higgins started his career as a forward but it was as a defender he made his name in the VFL. A left-footer, Higgins was a league regular from 1973 and made his finals debut in 1976. He was Geelong's best-placed player at the 1978 Brownlow Medal count but departed at the end of 1978 to transfer to Fitzroy for 1979. Higgins would appear in all 24 games that season, including Fitzroy’s first finals since 1960 It is also known as the "Year of Africa" because of major events—particularly the independence of seventeen African nations—that focused global attention on the continent and intensified feeli ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sandhurst Football Club
The Sandhurst Football Netball Club, nicknamed the ''Dragons'', is an Australian rules football and netball club based in Bendigo, Victoria (Australia), Victoria. Sandhurst is the former name of that city. The club teams currently compete in the Bendigo Football League, Bendigo Football Netball League. The football team is the second most-winning team of the BFL, with 27 premierships. History Sandhurst, who were then known as the Maroons, were one of the league's foundation clubs in 1880. They had been formed in June 1861, by Melbourne Football Club rulemaker J. B. Thompson. The club did not play in the BFL from 1901 to 1914, but returned to the league after the war in 1919, and have appeared in every season since. They are the second most successful club in BFL history with 27 premierships, one behind Eaglehawk Football Club, Eaglehawk. Premierships * Bendigo Football League (27): 1881, 1884, 1885, 1890, 1891, 1893, 1920, 1923, 1927, 1929, 1930, 1931, 1932, 1933, 1934, 1937 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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 the three officiating field umpires after each game. It is the most prestigious award for individual players in the AFL. It is also widely acknowledged as the highest individual honour in the sport of Australian rules football. The medal was first awarded by the Victorian Football League (VFL). It was created and named in honour of Charles Brownlow, a former Geelong Football Club footballer (1880–1891) and club secretary (1885–1923), and VFL president (1918–19), who had died in January 1924 after an extended illness. "Fairest and best" Although the award is generally spoken of the "best and fairest", the award's specific criterion is "''fairest and best''", reflecting an emphasis on sportsmanship and fair play (this also explains ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sandhurst Football Club Players
Sandhurst often refers to: * Royal Military Academy Sandhurst, near the town of Sandhurst in Berkshire, England * Royal Military College, Sandhurst, its predecessor (before 1947) Sandhurst may also refer to: Places * Sandhurst, Berkshire, England, a town * Sandhurst, Gloucestershire, England, a village * Sandhurst, Kent, England, a village * Sandhurst, Victoria, a suburb of Melbourne, Australia * Bendigo, Victoria, Australia, formerly named Sandhurst * Sandhurst Road, Mumbai, a railway station * Sandhurst, Gauteng, South Africa, a suburb of Sandton People * Baron Sandhurst, a title in the peerage of the United Kingdom * Sandhurst Tacama Miggins (born 1986), fashion model from Trinidad and Tobago * Basil Sandhurst, a Marvel Comics fictional character * Margaret Sandhurst (1828–1892), British suffragist Other uses * Sandhurst Competition, a military skills competition at West Point, US * Sandhurst Las Vegas, a cancelled condominium project * Sandhurst Trustees, a subsidiary of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sturt Football Club Coaches
Sturt may refer to: * Sturt (surname) * Sturt (biology), a unit of measurement in embryology named for Alfred Sturtevant Places and things named after Charles Sturt, a British explorer of Australia, include: Australia * Sturt Highway, a national highway in New South Wales, Victoria, and South Australia. New South Wales * Sturt National Park, New South Wales * Charles Sturt University, a university in Wagga Wagga Queensland * Sturt, Queensland, a locality in the Shire of Boulia South Australia *Sturt, South Australia, a suburb of Adelaide *Sturt Football Club, an Australian Rules Football club *Sturt River, Adelaide *Sturt Street, Adelaide *City of Charles Sturt, a city *Point Sturt, a town *Division of Sturt, a federal electoral district in South Australia *Electoral district of Sturt (New South Wales), former New South Wales Legislative Assembly electorate *Electoral district of Sturt (South Australia), former South Australian House of Assembly electorate See also ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Fitzroy Football Club Players
Fitzroy or FitzRoy may refer to: People As a given name *Several members of the Somerset family (Dukes of Beaufort) have this as a middle-name: **FitzRoy Somerset, 1st Baron Raglan (1788–1855) ** Henry Charles FitzRoy Somerset, 8th Duke of Beaufort (1824–1899) ** Henry Adelbert Wellington FitzRoy Somerset, 9th Duke of Beaufort (1847–1924) ** Henry Hugh Arthur FitzRoy Somerset, 10th Duke of Beaufort (1900–1984) ** Henry FitzRoy Somerset, 12th Duke of Beaufort (born 1952), called Bunter Worcester *Fitzroy Alexander (1926–1988), better known as Lord Melody, a calypsonian from Trinidad * Sir Fitzroy Maclean (1911-1996), Scottish soldier, writer and politician As a surname * Fitzroy (surname), i.e. not the form FitzRoy Descendants of Charles II and Barbara Palmer * Anne Lennard, Countess of Sussex or Lady Anne Fitzroy (1661–1722), daughter of King Charles II of England and Barbara Palmer, 1st Duchess of Cleveland * Charles FitzRoy, 2nd Duke of Cleveland (1662–1730), son ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Geelong Football Club Players
Geelong ( ) (Wathawurrung: ''Djilang''/''Djalang'') is a port city in the southeastern Australian state of Victoria, located at the eastern end of Corio Bay (the smaller western portion of Port Phillip Bay) and the left bank of Barwon River, about southwest of Melbourne, the state capital of Victoria. Geelong is the second largest Victorian city (behind Melbourne) with an estimated urban population of 268,277 as of June 2018, Estimated resident population, 30 June 2018. and is also Australia's second fastest-growing city. Geelong is also known as the "Gateway City" due to its critical location to surrounding western Victorian regional centres like Ballarat in the northwest, Torquay, Great Ocean Road and Warrnambool in the southwest, Hamilton, Colac and Winchelsea to the west, providing a transport corridor past the Central Highlands for these regions to the state capital Melbourne in its northeast. The City of Greater Geelong is also a member of thGateway Cities Alliancei ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
2019 Deaths
This is a list of deaths of notable people, organised by year. New deaths articles are added to their respective month (e.g., Deaths in ) and then linked here. 2022 2021 2020 2019 2018 2017 2016 2015 2014 2013 2012 2011 2010 2009 2008 2007 2006 2005 2004 2003 2002 2001 2000 1999 1998 1997 1996 1995 1994 1993 1992 1991 1990 1989 1988 1987 See also * Lists of deaths by day The following pages, corresponding to the Gregorian calendar, list the historical events, births, deaths, and holidays and observances of the specified day of the year: Footnotes See also * Leap year * List of calendars * List of non-standard ... * Deaths by year {{DEFAULTSORT:deaths by year ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1951 Births
Events January * January 4 – Korean War: Third Battle of Seoul – Chinese and North Korean forces capture Seoul for the second time (having lost the Second Battle of Seoul in September 1950). * January 9 – The Government of the United Kingdom announces abandonment of the Tanganyika groundnut scheme for the cultivation of peanuts in the Tanganyika Territory, with the writing off of £36.5M debt. * January 15 – In a court in West Germany, Ilse Koch, The "Witch of Buchenwald", wife of the commandant of the Buchenwald concentration camp, is sentenced to life imprisonment. * January 20 – Winter of Terror: Avalanches in the Alps kill 240 and bury 45,000 for a time, in Switzerland, Austria and Italy. * January 21 – Mount Lamington in Papua New Guinea erupts catastrophically, killing nearly 3,000 people and causing great devastation in Oro Province. * January 25 – Dutch author Anne de Vries releases the first volume of his children's novel '' Journey Through ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Geelong Football League
The Geelong Football Netball League is an Australian rules football and netball league in Victoria, Australia. It is widely regarded as the highest standard Australian rules football league in regional Victoria, with several former AFL players now playing for a variety of clubs. History The league was formed in 1979 when twelve clubs broke away from the Geelong & District Football League. The city and country clubs of the old GDFL were divided into the major league competition of the GFL and the minor league of the GDFL. Many of the teams in the lower league wanted a system of promotion and relegation, which was fought by the GFL until the early 1980s when the Victorian Country Football League held a hearing in Melbourne. As a result, a trial promotion-relegation system was put into place on a voluntary basis. Today, the GDFL is opposed to the promotion-relegation system, with a three-division, three league competition of the Geelong FL, Bellarine FL and Geelong & District FL in ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1960 VFL Season
The 1960 VFL season was the 64th season of the Victorian Football League (VFL), the highest level senior Australian rules football competition in Victoria. The season featured twelve clubs, ran from 16 April until 24 September, and comprised an 18-game home-and-away season followed by a finals series featuring the top four clubs. The premiership was won by the Melbourne Football Club for the eleventh time and second time consecutively, after it defeated by 48 points in the 1960 VFL Grand Final. Premiership season In 1960, the VFL competition consisted of twelve teams of 18 on-the-field players each, plus two substitute players, known as the 19th man and the 20th man. A player could be substituted for any reason; however, once substituted, a player could not return to the field of play under any circumstances. Teams played each other in a home-and-away season of 18 rounds; matches 12 to 18 were the "home-and-way reverse" of matches 1 to 7. Once the 18 round home-and-away se ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1976 VFL Season
The 1976 VFL season was the 80th season of the Victorian Football League (VFL), the highest level senior Australian rules football competition in Victoria. The season featured twelve clubs, ran from 3 April until 25 September, and comprised a 22-game home-and-away season followed by a finals series featuring the top five clubs. The premiership was won by the Hawthorn Football Club for the third time, after it defeated by 30 points in the 1976 VFL Grand Final. Premiership season In 1976, the VFL competition consisted of twelve teams of 18 on-the-field players each, plus two substitute players, known as the 19th man and the 20th man. A player could be substituted for any reason; however, once substituted, a player could not return to the field of play under any circumstances. Teams played each other in a home-and-away season of 22 rounds; matches 12 to 22 were the "home-and-way reverse" of matches 1 to 11 (except that rounds 14 and 15 were the reverse of 4 and 3 respectively). ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bendigo Football Netball 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 competition based in the Bendigo region of Victoria. Formed on 10 June 1881 by the city's three clubs as the ''Sandhurst Football Association'', it is one of the oldest football leagues in Australia, and among its members are some of the oldest football clubs in Australia, including the Castlemaine Football Club, acknowledged as the second oldest football club in Australia and one of the oldest in the world. Clubs Location Current Clubs Former Clubs * Bendigo Football Club * Bendigo East Football Club * California Gully Football Club * Coachbuilders Football Club * Echuca Football Club * Echuca East Football Club * Elmore Football Club * Kennington-Strathdale Football Club * Lockington Bamawm United Football Club * Long Gully Football ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
