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Rochester Football Club
The Rochester Football Netball Club, nicknamed the ''Tigers'', is an Australian rules football and netball club, formed at a meeting held on 8 June 1874 at Tidy's Restdown Hotel. The club was formed with the purpose of soon "playing and beating Echuca". An intense rivalry that has endured ever since regardless of which competition each was playing in. Rochester FNC is based in the town of Rochester, Victoria. Its teams currently play in the Goulburn Valley League, where Rochester played for the first time in 1913. History The Rochester Football Club was formed in 1874 at Tidy's Rest Down Hotel, Rochester, with a committee elected and players resolved to practice with the intention of beating Echuca. On 1 June 1877 at Oliver's Cafe the Victorian Football Association was formed, with Rochester FC being one of the foundation clubs. Between 1874 and 1889 (apart from 1877 in the VFA), there appears to be no evidence that Rochester played in any formal football competitions, but d ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Goulburn Valley Football League
The Goulburn Valley Football Netball League is an Australian rules football and netball competition based in the Goulburn Valley region of Victoria, Australia. It is a member of the Victorian Country Football League and has won the Victorian Country Football Championships in 2003 and 2005. History The league was initially called the Goulburn Valley District Football Association(GVDFA) and dates back to May, 1893. Clubs from the townships of Kyabram, Mooroopna, Nagambie, Nathalia, Numurkah, Shepparton, Shepparton Ramblers, Tatura, Undera and Wunghnu were present at the inaugural meeting. The five original clubs that made up the 1893 GVDFA draw were – Kyabram, Mooroopna, Shepparton, Shepparton Ramblers and Tatura with Mooroopna playing the Shepparton Ramblers in the 1893 GVDFA grand final. Later clubs from Rushworth, Murchison, Tongala and Echuca would spend time in this league. At the 1914 – GVDFA – Annual General Meeting, the club delegate's voted to change the name of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Echuca District Football Association
Echuca ( ) is a town on the banks of the Murray River and Campaspe River in Victoria, Australia. The border town of Moama is adjacent on the northern side of the Murray River in New South Wales. Echuca is the administrative centre and largest settlement in the Shire of Campaspe. As of the , Echuca had a population of 15,056, and the population of the combined Echuca and Moama townships was 22,568. Echuca lies within traditional Yorta Yorta country. The town's name is a Yorta Yorta word meaning "meeting of the waters". Echuca is close to the junction of the Goulburn, Campaspe, and Murray Rivers. Its position at the closest point of the Murray to Melbourne contributed to its development as a thriving river port city during the 19th century. History Origins The riverine plains of the Goulburn Broken catchment are the traditional lands of the Yorta Yorta Nation. Their population before European contact is estimated to have been approximately 2400. The Yorta Yorta were disposse ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bruce Carruthers (footballer)
Bruce Carruthers (18 January 1903 – 8 March 1988) was an Australian rules footballer who played with Essendon in the Victorian Football League (VFL). In 1923, Carruthers was involved in a long drawn out clearance dispute. Carruthers, a South Bendigo player applied for a clearance to Rochester, where he was working, but subsequently withdrew it and South Bendigo played Carruthers and a protest was lodged by Rochester. Rochester lost the appeal and Carruthers was allowed to play with South Bendigo. Ironically, Carruthers ended up playing with Rochester Rochester may refer to: Places Australia * Rochester, Victoria Canada * Rochester, Alberta United Kingdom *Rochester, Kent ** City of Rochester-upon-Medway (1982–1998), district council area ** History of Rochester, Kent ** HM Prison ... in 1924 and was their captain-coach in 1925, before returning to Bendigo with work midway through 1925 and played in South Bendigo's 1925 premiership. In 1926, Carruthers appl ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Basil McCormack
Basil Milton McCormack (3 August 1904 – 19 February 1973) was an Australian rules footballer who played in the Victorian Football League (VFL) between 1925 and 1936 for the Richmond Football Club. Family The son of Michael McCormack and Mary McCormack (1865–1950), née Foley, he was born at Rochester, Victoria on 3 August 1904. Richmond A left-foot kick, recruited from Rochester, he played 200 senior games for the Richmond Football Club as a half-back flanker, and represented Victoria on 13 occasions. Double debut Granted his clearance from Rochester to Richmond on Friday, 1 May 1925, he played his first match for Richmond, selected on the half-back flank, against Hawthorn, on 2 May 1925 ( round 1). He played well; with the match report noting that "McCormack … who marks and kicks well, aslooking a very likely man". It was also the Hawthorn team's first match in the VFL competition, the former VFA club having been admitted (along with Footscray and North Melbourne) ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gerry Beare
George Gerald Beare (3 July 1905 – 28 September 1983) was an Australian rules footballer who played with Richmond and Melbourne in the Victorian Football League (VFL). Between his two VFL stints he played for South Ballarat, and after leaving Melbourne he played for Kyneton. Beare was described as an "Old Xavier College boy" when he signed with Richmond from Rochester in 1924. Beare coached Sale Football Club The Sale Football Netball Club, nicknamed the ''Magpies'', is an Australian rules football and netball club based in Sale, Victoria, Sale, Victoria (Australia), Victoria and are based at the Sale Oval. The club teams compete in the Gippsland F ... in 1931. Beare then coached Kyneton CYMS in 1932, Griffith (NSW) in 1933, Sorrento in 1934, Kyneton in 1935, Fitzroy seconds in 1936, Yeronga (Brisbane) in 1937 and 1938, Old Xaverians (amateurs) in 1946 and Collegians (amateurs) in 1952. Notes External links * *Gerry Beare's profileat DemonwikiGerry Beare's p ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rowley Watt
Rowland Hill Watt (17 July 1898 – 27 July 1970) was an Australian rules footballer who played for Essendon in the Victorian Football League (VFL). Watt arrived at Essendon from Rochester and spent a season with Essendon Association before joining their VFL club. He was one of the small players in the team which saw them called the 'Mosquito Fleet' and he was a member of their 1923 and 1924 premiership sides. Although he started as a centreman he spent most of his time at Essendon either as a wingman, half forward flanker and occasionally roving. Watt returned to Rochester as captain-coach of Rochester in 1932. His younger brother Rod Watt Rodney Charles Watt (2 January 1895 – 29 May 1967) was an Australian rules footballer who played with Essendon in the Victorian Football League (VFL). Brother of Essendon’s Rowley Watt Rowland Hill Watt (17 July 1898 – 27 July 1 ... played briefly with Essendon in the mid-1920s. References External links * * ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kevin Duffy (footballer)
John Kevin Duffy (13 April 1897 – 5 November 1977) was an Australian rules footballer who played with St Kilda in the Victorian Football League (VFL). Duffy, a forward was recruited from Rochester in the Rochester and District Football Association in 1920 to play in the last match of the season against Fitzroy. Duffy played with the South Bendigo Football Club in 1921 and most likely played in their 1921 Bendigo Football 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 compe ... premiership. Notes External links * * 1897 births 1977 deaths Australian rules footballers from Victoria (state) St Kilda Football Club players {{AFL-bio-1897-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Harold Bennett (footballer)
Harold James Bennett (9 June 1891 – 9 July 1964) was an Australian rules footballer. Bennett started his Victorian Football League (VFL) career with University, playing most of the 1911 VFL season. It was his only year as study requirements took precedence. Bennett moved to Goulburn Valley District Football Association club Rochester before being lured back to the VFL, starting the 1914 VFL season with South Melbourne South Melbourne is an inner suburb in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia, 3 km south of Melbourne's Central Business District, located within the City of Port Phillip local government area. South Melbourne recorded a population of 11,548 at ..., before returning to Rochester and playing in their 1914 GVDFA premiership win over Shepparton. Footnotes References League Football: The South Melbourne Team, ''The Weekly Times'', (Saturday, 13 June 1908), p.25. External links * * 1891 births 1964 deaths Sydney Swans players University Football ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Paddy Mills (Australian Footballer)
Paddy Mills (17 March 1884 – 12 July 1957) was an Australian rules footballer who played with Melbourne and Carlton in the Victorian Football League (VFL). Mills played with South Bendigo Football Club in 1910 and 1911, then with Rochester Football Club from 1912 to 1915, with Mills coaching Rochester in 1913 and 1914 (premiers), in the Wednesday afternoon Goulburn Valley Football League competition. During 1912 and 1913, Mills was playing with Carlton on Saturday’s and with Rochester on Wednesday’s. Mills was then captain-coach of Rochester when they moved across to play in the Bendigo Football League in 1915, just prior to World War One World War I (28 July 1914 11 November 1918), often abbreviated as WWI, was one of the deadliest global conflicts in history. Belligerents included much of Europe, the Russian Empire, the United States, and the Ottoman Empire, with fightin ..., with the out break of the war ultimately finishing off his football career. N ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Goulburn Valley Football Netball League
The Goulburn Valley Football Netball League is an Australian rules football and netball competition based in the Goulburn Valley region of Victoria, Australia. It is a member of the Victorian Country Football League and has won the Victorian Country Football Championships in 2003 and 2005. History The league was initially called the Goulburn Valley District Football Association(GVDFA) and dates back to May, 1893. Clubs from the townships of Kyabram, Mooroopna, Nagambie, Nathalia, Numurkah, Shepparton, Shepparton Ramblers, Tatura, Undera and Wunghnu were present at the inaugural meeting. The five original clubs that made up the 1893 GVDFA draw were – Kyabram, Mooroopna, Shepparton, Shepparton Ramblers and Tatura with Mooroopna playing the Shepparton Ramblers in the 1893 GVDFA grand final. Later clubs from Rushworth, Murchison, Tongala and Echuca would spend time in this league. At the 1914 – GVDFA – Annual General Meeting, the club delegate's voted to change the name of t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ashley Watson
Ashley Watson (born 26 March 1984) is an Australian rules footballer who played for North Melbourne between 2003 and 2005. He was drafted in the 2001 AFL Draft with the 14th selection from Bendigo Pioneers in the TAC Cup The NAB League Boys (also referred to as simply the NAB League and formerly known as the TAC Cup) is an under-19 Australian rules football representative competition held in Australia. It is based on geographic regions throughout country Vict .... He played seven games in four seasons at the Kangaroos before he was delisted at the end of the 2005 season. Ashley now plays for Rochester in the Goulburn Valley Football League, where he won the leagues honour, the Morrison Medal in 2015. References External links * Living people 1984 births Bendigo Pioneers players North Melbourne Football Club players Australian rules footballers from Victoria (state) {{AFL-bio-1980s-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kevin Shinners
Kevin Shinners (born 24 March 1945) is a former Australian rules footballer who played with Richmond in the Victorian Football League (VFL). Shinners was recruited from Dandenong. He played 17 games for Richmond in the 1967 VFL season, including their semi final win over Carlton, but missed out on participating in the grand final, which they won. He was called up to the seniors just six times in 1968. He continued at Dandenong after leaving Richmond and also spent some time with Rochester in the Bendigo Football 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 compe ..., winning a Michelsen Medal in 1970. References LinksKevin Shinners Profileat Tigerland Archive {{DEFAULTSORT:Shinners, Kevin 1945 births Australian rules footballers from Victoria (state) Richmond Foot ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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