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Len White (Australian Footballer)
Leonard Joseph White (26 August 1922 – 29 August 2010) was an Australian rules footballer who played with Geelong Football Club, Geelong in the Victorian Football League (1897–1989), Victorian Football League (VFL). Early career Born in Camperdown, Victoria, Camperdown, White was one of eleven born to Eugene and Ellen White (née Nolan). White started his senior career at the Camperdown Football Club, in the Hampden Football Netball League, Hampden Football League. One of four brothers in the Camperdown team, White won the club's best and fairest award in 1946, as a full-back. Geelong White was used mostly as a half back by Geelong, which he joined in 1947. In his debut season he made 17 appearances and was described by Jim Blake of the ''Sporting Globe'' as one of the "best recruits" that season. At the end of the season he won Geelong's award for the "best first year player". It was noted in ''The Argus (Melbourne), The Argus'' that there was confusion at the Brownlow M ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Camperdown, Victoria
Camperdown () is a town in southwestern Victoria, Australia, west of the state capital, Melbourne. At the 2016 Australian census, 2016 census, Camperdown had a population of 3,369. History The Djargurd Wurrung people were the traditional Aboriginal people of the Camperdown area, who had lived in the area for countless generations as a semi-nomadic hunter gatherer society. The first British settlers, the Manifold brothers (Thomas, John and Peter Manifold), arrived in the area from Van Diemen's Land (Tasmania) after 1835 to establish sheep and cattle runs. Settlement was met with resistance by some of the local Aborigines, the Murdering Gully massacre taking place nearby. The area's history records instances of mutual assistance and friendship between native and settler people. Notable on this account is the family of David Fenton, the Scottish Presbyterian shepherd and drover who built the first house in Camperdown in 1853. The original settlement was several miles to the nort ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
