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List Of Fitzroy Football Club Leading Goalkickers
The following is a list of Fitzroy Football Club leading goalkickers in each of their seasons in the Australian Football League The Australian Football League (AFL) is the only fully professional competition of Australian rules football. Through the AFL Commission, the AFL also serves as the sport's governing body and is responsible for controlling the laws of the gam ... (formerly the Victorian Football League). ReferencesFitzroy Honour Roll {{AFL club leading goalkickers Goalkickers Fitzroy Football Club goalkickers Fitzroy Football Club goalkickers ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Fitzroy Football Club
The Fitzroy Football Club is an Australian rules football club currently competing in the Victorian Amateur Football Association (VAFA). Formed in 1883 to represent the inner-Melbourne municipality of Fitzroy, the club was a member of the Victorian Football Association (VFA), before becoming a foundation member of the breakaway Victorian Football League (VFL/AFL) in 1897. Fitzroy won a total of eight VFL premierships, of which seven (1898, 1899, 1904, 1905, 1913, 1916 and 1922) were won whilst they were nicknamed the Maroons and one (1944) as the Gorillas. The decision of the club to change its nickname to the Lions in 1957 coincided with what history now records as the beginning of decades of poor on-field performance and financial losses that eventually resulted in the club being placed into administration, ultimately leaving the AFL at the end of the 1996 season. That year the club's AFL playing operations merged with the Brisbane Bears to form the Brisbane Lions. It even ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Len Pye
Leonard Edward Thomas 'Apples' Pye (21 February 1911 – 20 September 1989) was an 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 k ...er who played for Fitzroy Football Club, Fitzroy in the Australian Football League, VFL during the 1930s. He also had a notable career in the Tasmanian Football League, TANFL with North Hobart Demons, North Hobart which saw him named in Tasmania's official 'Team of the Century', on the interchange bench. Family The son of Charles Pye (1882-1958) and Elsie May Pye, née Burke (1884-1944), Leonard Edward Thomas Pye was born at New Norfolk on 21 February 1911. Len married Violet Beatrice Sullivan and had two daughters, Jennifer and Geraldine Football North Hobart Pye played his early football with New Norfolk before start ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kevin Wright (Australian Rules Footballer)
Kevin Wright (19 February 1933 – 3 October 2003) was an Australian rules footballer who played for Fitzroy in the Victorian Football League (VFL). Wright was used initially in the midfield, either as a centre, rover or wingman. Towards the end of his career he played more as a forward after establishing himself with a six-goal haul in the opening round of the 1958 VFL season. He kicked 43 in 1959 to top Fitzroy's goal-kicking and was their most prolific forward again the following season with 36 goals. Wright moved to the Dandenong Football Club in the Victorian Football Association 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 ... in 1962, and served there as captain-coach until 1964; he led the club to a Division 2 premiership in 1962, and kicked six goals in the grand fina ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Owen Abrahams
Owen Lindsay Abrahams (25 July 1933 – 31 January 2006) was an Australian rules footballer who played for Fitzroy in the VFL. Abrahams' football career did not start well after he was rejected by Fitzroy's thirds team, but he moved to the amateurs where he played with the Commonwealth Bank team, from which he was selected with the Fitzroy senior team. He made a name for himself as a specialist half-forward and was named All-Australian The All-Australian team is an all-star team of Australian rules football in Australia, Australian rules footballers, selected by a panel at the end of each season. It represents a complete team, including an interchange bench, of the best-perf ... in 1958, played for Victoria 9 times, and was captain of the Lions in 1962. Abrahams was later named as part of the Fitzroy Team of the Century. Following his retirement Abrahams served as the Lions' treasurer. He died in January 2006 at the age of 72 following a serious illness. External lin ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Norm Johnstone
Norman Alfred Johnstone (16 January 1927 – 7 June 2013) was an Australian rules footballer who played his entire 228 game career with the Fitzroy in the (then) VFL.AFL Stats (2008)''Fitzroy Players: Norm Johnstone'' Retrieved on 12 July 2008. He was a ruckman, but was capable of kicking goals when pushed into forward line.Full Points Footy (2008)''Norman Johnstone (Fitzroy)''. Retrieved on 12 July 2008 Playing career Recruited from the Chelsea Seagulls Football Club, Norm Johnstone played his first game for Fitzroy as a 17-year-old. Heftily built at 183 cm and 92 kg, he was nevertheless extremely pacy and was not frightened of using his weight. Johnstone was considered by his peers as a very tough footballer, not afraid to use his physical strength when needed.Fitzroy Football Club (2008)''Fitzroy Team of the Century Nominees''. Retrieved on 13 July 2008. Always a reliable player, he won Fitzroy's best and fairest award in 1947, and was a VFL interstate repres ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Joe Hickey
Joseph or Joe Hickey may refer to: * Joe Hickey (footballer) (1929–2021), Australian rules footballer * Joe Hickey (politician) (1911–1970), American politician and judge, U.S. senator from Wyoming and governor of Wyoming * Joseph Hickey (ornithologist) (1907–1993), American ornithologist {{human name disambiguation, Hickey, Joe ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tony Ongarello
Tony Ongarello (22 December 1932 – 18 July 2022) was an Australian rules footballer of Italian heritage who played with Fitzroy Lions, Fitzroy in the Australian Football League, VFL from 1952 to 1960. He played most of his career at full-forward. Ongarello is believed to be the last player in the VFL/AFL to have scored a goal from a place kick, scoring two goals from the kicks late in Fitzroy's narrow loss to Geelong in 1955 VFL season#Round 4, 1955 at Brunswick Street Oval. He was also the last player to attempt a place kick. Ongarello reportedly switched to the place kicks after missing several consecutive set shots from Punt (Australian football), punt kicks in the game. He appeared regularly on Australian Broadcasting Commission, ABC television Australian rules football panels in Victoria in the 1960s and 1970s. Notes External links * {{DEFAULTSORT:Ongarello, Tony 1932 births 2022 deaths Australian rules footballers from Victoria (state) Fitzroy Football Club pl ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Eddie Hart (Australian Rules Footballer)
Edward Ronald "Eddie" Hart (16 June 1922 – 16 August 1995) was an Australian rules footballer who played with Fitzroy in the VFL during the 1940s. From 1947 until 1951 Hart topped Fitzroy's goalkicking, with over 50 goals in each season — his highest season tally was 65 goals in 1951 — and, in 1948, 1949, and 1951, he finished as the league's third highest goal scorer. Family The son of Frederick Arthur Hart, and Elizabeth Hart, née King, Edward Ronald Hart was born on 16 June 1922. Two of his brothers, Arthur Hart, and Don Hart Donald Clement Hart (29 September 1930 – 8 February 2018) was an Australian rules footballer who played with Fitzroy, and Richmond, in the Victorian Football League (VFL), and with Brighton Football Club in the Victorian Football Associa ... also played for Fitzroy. Football He retired before the 1952 season began, as a consequence of a knock to his head that he received during the 1951 season. Footnotes References * World Wa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Allan Ruthven
Allan Gordon Ruthven (17 April 1922 – 14 March 2003) was an Australian rules footballer in the (then) Victorian Football League. He played his entire 222 game career with Fitzroy. In 1950, Ruthven won the prestigious Brownlow medal. Playing career Ruthven was the nephew of Victoria Cross winner William Ruthven, who was a Collingwood supporter. His uncle took him to trial with Collingwood, but they rejected him. A product of Falconer Street School in North Fitzroy, Ruthven subsequently joined Fitzroy in 1940 as a 17-year-old schoolboy star. So impressed with his skill and potential, the club subsequently gave Ruthven guernsey number 7, previously worn and made famous by triple Brownlow Medallist, Haydn Bunton.Sports Delivered (2003)''Allan "The Baron" Ruthven - Fitzroy Great'' Retrieved on 9 July 2008.Full Points Footy (2008). Retrieved on 9 July 2008. Universally known as "the Baron", for his dapper dress sense, Ruthven reportedly earned his nickname when a teammate call ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jack Grant (footballer, Born 1915)
John William Grant (24 September 1915 – 1 December 1983) was an Australian rules footballer who played for the Geelong Football Club and Fitzroy Football Club in the Australian Football League, Victorian Football League (VFL). Family He married Dulcie May Ellis (?–1989), in Geelong, on Saturday, 29 April 1939. He died on 1 December 1983, and was buried at Mount Duneed Cemetery, Mount Duneed, Victoria. Stawell Gift He had exceptional pace, winning the 1938 130-yard Stawell Gift in eleven and eleven-sixteenths of a second, off a handicap of 11½ yards. Football Grant usually played on the half forward or half back flank. A member of Geelong's premiership team in 1937, Grant won their Carji Greeves Medal, best and fairest award in 1939. He was their leading goalkicker in 1940, with 47 goals. In 1942 he moved to Fitzroy and spent two seasons with the club, topping their goalkicking in 1942 with 43 goals. He returned to Geelong in 1945 and captained them the following season ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Claude Curtin
Claude Frederick Curtin (4 July 1920 – 13 December 1994) was an Australian rules footballer who played with Fitzroy in the VFL. A full-forward, Curtin was the nephew of former Australian Prime Minister John Curtin John Curtin (8 January 1885 – 5 July 1945) was an Australian politician who served as the 14th prime minister of Australia from 1941 until his death in 1945. He led the country for the majority of World War II, including all but the last few .... He kicked over fifty goals in a season on four separate occasions, from 1940 to 1942 and in 1946. In each of those seasons he topped Fitzroy's goalkicking. He would have been a member of the club's 1944 premiership side had he not be away on war service. His grandson is former Hawthorn player and Carlton coach John Barker References External links *Maroon and Blue article {{DEFAULTSORT:Curtin, Claude 1920 births Fitzroy Football Club players North Melbourne Football Club players 1994 deaths Australian rul ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Clen Denning
Clen Charles Denning (28 February 1911 – 9 November 2009) was an Australian rules footballer in the Victorian Football League (VFL). Family The son of Thomas Clen Denning (1879-1917), and Agnes Caroline Denning (1880-1974), née Gunther, Clen Charles Denning was born at Collingwood, Victoria on 28 February 1911. He married Winifred Adelaide Newman (1915-2002) in 1938. Football Soon after he turned 16, Denning played for Victorian Football Association (VFA) club Oakleigh. He got his start in the VFL after a long wait when Oakleigh coach Frank Maher moved to coach the Carlton Football Club. Denning debuted with Carlton in 1935. Early in his career, Denning made a name for himself as a promising goalkicker; he scored six goals from his first six kicks—all in his first match— a record that stands to this day. He only stayed with Carlton until the end of 1937, having played 18 games for 23 goals. In 1938, he crossed over to the Fitzroy Football Club, as he was said to be ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
