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Reg Hickey
Reginald Joseph Hickey (27 March 1906 – 13 December 1973) was an Australian rules footballer who was a player, the captain, the captain-coach, and the non-playing coach for the Geelong Football Club in the Victorian Football League (VFL) between 1928 and 1940 (player), and between 1949 and 1959 (non-player). In the 34 seasons from 1926 to 1959 he was involved in four Geelong VFL premierships: one as a player (1931), one as captain-coach ( 1937), and two as non-playing coach (1951, and 1952) – he was also the non-playing coach of a losing Grand Final team (1953), where an inaccurate Geelong (8.17 (65)) lost to Collingwood (11.11 (77)). Family The son of Martin Hickey (1873-1944), and Margaret Teresa Hickey (1877-1965), née Meaney, Reginald Joseph Hickey was born in Collingwood on 27 March 1906. He married Doreen Stella Markin (1916-1963) on 26 October 1938. He was the nephew of Fitzroy (VFA & VFL) footballer Pat Hickey, and Fitzroy (VFA) footballer and Fitzroy (VFL ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Collingwood, Victoria
Collingwood is an inner-city suburb in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia, 3km north-east of Melbourne's Central Business District, located within the City of Yarra local government area. Collingwood recorded a population of 9,179 at the 2021 census. The area now known as Collingwood is thought to have been named Yálla-birr-ang by the Wurundjeri people, the original Indigenous inhabitants of the area. Following colonisation, the suburb was named in 1842 after Baron Collingwood or an early hotel which bore his name. Collingwood is one of the oldest suburbs in Melbourne and is bordered by Smith Street, Alexandra Parade, Hoddle Street and Victoria Parade. Collingwood is notable for its historical buildings, with many nineteenth century dwellings, shops and factories still in use. Its major thoroughfare Smith Street, is one of Melbourne's major nightlife and retail strips, and has been voted the coolest street in the world. History Toponymy It was 'named after' Lord Horatio Ne ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Melissa Hickey
Melissa Hickey (born 18 December 1984) is a former Australian rules footballer who played for the Melbourne Football Club and the Geelong Football Club in the AFL Women's (AFLW). She served as Geelong captain in the club's first two AFL Women's seasons. She also played in the Victorian Women's Football League/VFL Women's for eleven seasons, representing the St Albans Spurs, and Geelong. In the VWFL/VFLW, Hickey won seven premierships, represented Victoria on three occasions and featured in the VFL Women's team of the year. Hickey represented Melbourne in the exhibition games staged prior to the creation of AFL Women's before being drafted by the club in 2016 as a marquee signing prior to the inaugural AFL Women's season. She was selected in the inaugural AFL Women's All-Australian team in 2017, and also represented Victoria in the inaugural AFL Women's State of Origin match. Following the 2018 season, Hickey was announced as one of four Melbourne players to join Geelong a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Denis Ryan (footballer)
Denis James Ryan (10 July 1916 – 22 April 1980) was an Australian rules footballer who played for Fitzroy Football Club, Fitzroy in Australian Football League, Victorian Football League (VFL) during the 1930s. Ryan originally played with the Albury Rovers Football Club and kicked three goals in their 1933 premiership win over Henty Football Club in the Albury & District Football League. Ryan won the 1934 - Albury & District Football League's best and fairest award, the Stavley Medal, playing for the Albury Rovers Football Club, before heading down to Melbourne to play with Fitzroy. Ryan debuted in the VFL in 1935, in round one, aged just 18 and started his career at centre half forward, topping Fitzroy's goalkicking in his debut season with 46 goals. He was moved to centre half back the following season and won the 1936 Brownlow Medal, with 26 votes, making it the fifth Brownlow in the previous six years to have gone to a Fitzroy player. In 1939 after injuring his knee, Rya ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1931 Brownlow Medal
The 1931 Brownlow Medal was the eighth year the award was presented to the player adjudged the best and fairest, fairest and best player during the Victorian Football League (1897–1989), Victorian Football League (VFL) home and away season. Haydn Bunton, Sr., Haydn Bunton of the Fitzroy Football Club won the medal by polling twenty-six votes during the 1931 VFL season. Following the previous season's three-way tie, and the confusion which followed, the conditions governing the medal were amended. From this season, the umpire would award votes to the best three players on the ground – three votes to the best player, two to the second best, and one to the third best. The player with the most overall votes would win; in the event of a tie, the player with the most three-vote games would win, then the player with the most two-vote games. A new provision under which a player who had been suspended during the season became ineligible for the award was also added. Leading votegett ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Haydn Bunton Sr
Haydn William Bunton (5 July 1911 – 5 September 1955) was an Australian rules footballer who represented in the Victorian Football League (VFL), in the West Australian Football League (WAFL), and in the South Australian National Football League (SANFL) during the 1930s and 1940s. Bunton is the only footballer to have won the Brownlow Medal and the Sandover Medal three times each. He is one of only four footballers to have won the Brownlow three times (the others being Ian Stewart, Dick Reynolds and Bob Skilton), and one of only five footballers to have won the Sandover at least three times (the others being Bill Walker (Australian footballer, born 1942), Bill Walker, who won it four times; and Barry Cable, Graham Farmer and Merv McIntosh, who each won it three times). Bunton is also the only player to have averaged one Brownlow vote per game over his career, averaging 1.04 votes per game. Like cricketer Don Bradman and the racehorse Phar Lap, Bunton was a sporting champio ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gordon Abbott
Gordon Allen Abbott (26 September 1914 – 19 April 1986) was an Australian rules footballer who played with Geelong Football Club, Geelong and Essendon Football Club, Essendon in the Australian Football League, Victorian Football League (VFL). Football Debuting with Geelong in 1936 VFL season, 1936, Abbott spent three years with the club which included being a member of Geelong's 1937 VFL season, 1937 premiership team and kicking two goals in the 1937 VFL Grand Final, Grand Final. He played mostly as a Ruckman (Australian rules football), Ruckman and a forward. After a period out of the VFL he returned to the league in 1941 VFL season, 1941 and joined Essendon where he would play in two further premierships, in 1942 VFL season, 1942 and 1946 VFL season, 1946. Notes References * Maplestone, M., ''Flying Higher: History of the Essendon Football Club 1872–1996'', Essendon Football Club, (Melbourne), 1996. External links * 1914 births 1986 deaths Australian r ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Joe Sellwood
Joseph Reuben Sellwood (24 January 1911 – 18 October 2007) was a New Zealand born Australian rules football player, playing 181 games (180 club, 1 representative) from 1930–1945. Family The son of Reuben and Jane Sellwood, Joseph Reuben Sellwood was born at Mataura, New Zealand on 24 January 1911. Football Sellwood, recruited from Goulburn Valley Football Association club Wunghu, made his senior debut for Geelong in the 1930 VFL season and was a member of their 1937 premiership team. Prior to his death in 2007, Sellwood was recognised as the oldest VFL/AFL premiership player and was given honorary induction into the AFL 200 Club, because his career allegedly suffered significant interruption during World War II, preventing him from reaching 200 games.De Bolfo (2017). Death Sellwood died on 18 October 2007 at a nursing home in Belmont, Victoria Belmont is a southern suburb of Geelong, Victoria, Australia. The name means "beautiful hill". Belmont is geographically ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jack Evans (footballer, Born 1908)
Jack 'Copper' Evans (19 January 1908 – 10 July 1960) was an Australian rules footballer who played with Geelong in the Victorian Football League (VFL) during the 1930s. Although primarily a ruckman, Evans could also play at centre half-forward and was Geelong's top goalkicker in 1935 with 32 goals. He played in two premiership sides, the first in 1931, and the second in 1937 when he kicked six goals in the Grand Final 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. S ... against Collingwood. Evans was a regular Victorian interstate representative, playing a total of nine games for his state. A policeman from 1932-1960, Evans was inducted into the Victoria Police Sporting Hall Of Fame on 13 September 2011. References * * 1908 births Australian rules footballers from ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ron Todd (footballer)
Ronald Walford Todd (23 October 1916 – 8 February 1991) was an Australian rules footballer who played for the Collingwood Football Club in the Victorian Football League (VFL) and the Williamstown Football Club in the Victorian Football Association (VFA). Renowned for his high marking and goalkicking ability, Todd was considered as the logical successor to the legendary Gordon Coventry, but his controversial move to Williamstown, along with teammate and friend Des Fothergill, caused much bitterness at Collingwood for many years afterward. He holds the record for the most goals kicked in a VFA season (188), and his 23 goals in the 1939 VFL finals series stood as a record until it was broken by Gary Ablett Sr. in 1989. VFL career Todd debuted for Collingwood in 1935 and joined Gordon Coventry in the forward line. For his first three seasons Todd played at centre half forward but moved into the goalsquare when Coventry retired at the end of 1937. He had an immediate impact, kic ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Les Hardiman
Leslie Francis Hardiman (1 April 1911 – 29 June 1962) was an Australian rules footballer who played for the Geelong Football Club in the Victorian Football League (VFL) and for the Subiaco Football Club in the Western Australian National Football League (WANFL). Hardiman was nicknamed 'Splinter' and was a key position player for Geelong. A premiership player with the club in 1931 and 1937, he also won their best and fairest award Theo Lewis Cup in 1933. Early years and Playing Career Hardiman was the third of seven children born to John Francis (Jack) Hardiman and Julia née Leary (1881—1963). Father Jack had played 21 games for Geelong and his eldest brother, Harold Peter, would also play for Geelong. He represented Victoria 5 times in interstate football and was named on Geelong's interchange bench in their official 'Team of the Century'. Hardiman had a starring role in the 1937 VFL Grand Final win over , a game regarded by many at the time as the greatest ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bill Goggin
William Goggin (born 4 January 1941) is a former Australian rules footballer who played for the Geelong Football Club in the VFL/AFL, Victorian Football League (VFL). He later coached Geelong and also the Western Bulldogs, Footscray Football Club. Family His brother Matt Goggin, Matt also played for Geelong, and other brother Charlie Goggin, Charlie is a racehorse trainer in Tasmania. Charlie's son Mathew Goggin, is a golfer on the PGA Tour. Football A member of the Australian Football Hall of Fame, Goggin was one of the VFL's finest rovers during his era, forming a memorable combination with legendary ruckman Polly Farmer and full forward Doug Wade. He was also a regular Big V representative, both as a player and coach. On 6 July 1963 he was a member of the Geelong team that were comprehensively and unexpectedly beaten 1963 VFL season#Round 10, by Fitzroy, 9.13 (67) to 3.13 (31) in the 1963 Miracle Match. Coach After retiring from the VFL, Goggin coached Geelong West Footba ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Arthur Coghlan
Arthur Emmett 'Bull' Coghlan (16 August 1902 – 8 June 1959) was an Australian rules footballer who played for and coached Geelong in the VFL. Family His brother, Michael Davitt Coghlan (1907-1964), played with Fitzroy in the VFL. Football Geelong's Toora recruit was a tough and hard hitting ruckman but could also play in key positions. He missed out on their 1925 premiership after being suspended for the remainder of 1925 and all of 1926 for escalating an all-in brawl that involved players and team officials. North Melbourne's Fred Rutley Frederick Joseph Rutley (10 July 1902 – 28 May 1947) was an Australian rules footballer who played for North Melbourne in both the Victorian Football Association (VFA) (1922-1924) and the Victorian Football League (VFL) (1925, 1930). Fami ... was suspended for life for starting the brawl. In 1929 he was appointed captain-coach and in his second season in this role steered Geelong to a Grand Final. They lost the match to ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
