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Wangaratta Football Club
The Wangaratta Magpies Football Club, officially known as the Wangaratta Magpies Football & Netball Club, is an Australian rules football club, which first played in the Ovens and Murray Football League in 1893 and is based in Wangaratta, Victoria at the Wangaratta Showgrounds and play on the Norm Minns Oval. Club History On 20 June 1864, the first Wangaratta Football Club in Wangaratta was formed, with Edward Lucas, President, Henry B. K. Leigh as Secretary and Thomas Cusack and seven others as committee. The Wangaratta Football Club was then reformed in Wangaratta, in 1875, when matches were played intermittently against other local towns like – Albury, Beechworth, Benalla, Chiltern, Corowa, Howlong, Rutherglen, Tarrawingee and Wahgunyah. There were two Wangaratta teams that entered the Ovens & Murray Football League in 1893, Wangaratta Central FC and West End FC (1893 only), with Wangaratta Central (Magpies) remaining in the O&MFA and moving between the Ovens & King Footba ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ovens & Murray Football League
The Ovens and Murray Football Netball League (O&MFNL) is an Australian rules football and netball competition containing ten clubs based in north-eastern Victoria, the southern Riverina region of New South Wales and the Ovens and Murray area. The name comes from the Ovens River, the river in the part of north-eastern Victoria covered by the league, and the Murray River, which separates Victoria and New South Wales. The league features three grades in the Australian rules football competition, with these being First-Grade, Reserve-Grade and Under 18s. In the netball competition, there are four grades, with these being A-Grade, B-Grade, C-Grade and Under 16s. Currently a home and away season consisting of eighteen rounds is played. The best five teams then play off according to the McIntyre System, culminating in the O&MFNL Grand Final, which from 1995 to 2017 was held at the Lavington Sports Ground in the Albury suburb of Hamilton Valley. History Beginnings of the O&MFA Or ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Des Steele
Des Steele is a former Australian rules footballer who played with Collingwood in the Victorian Football League 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 ... (VFL). Notes External links * 1943 births Australian rules footballers from Victoria (state) Collingwood Football Club players Wangaratta Football Club players Living people {{AFL-bio-1940s-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bert Mills
Bert Mills (16 February 1910 – 6 May 1984) was an Australian rules footballer who played for and captained Hawthorn in the Victorian Football League (VFL). Local brothers, Arthur Mills and Albert Mills played for Bethanga in the 1926 and 1927 Kiewa & District Football Association grand finals, before the family moved to Oxley, near Wangaratta, playing with Wangaratta Football Club in 1929, then both brothers made their debuts for the Hawthorn Football Club in 1930. Bert Mills usually played as a ruckman but was also used at centre half-back. He captained Hawthorn at various times during his career, starting in 1932, then the 1934 and 1938 seasons before his final stint from 1940 until 1941 which was as both captain and coach. Mills won the 1930 Most Consistent player award in his first season of VFL football. During his time at Hawthorn he won their Best and Fairest award three times, in 1933, 1935 and 1939. Mills was also presented with a Hawthorn FC life membership med ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Arthur Mills (Australian Footballer)
Arthur William Mills (22 November 1905 – 9 March 1984) was an Australian rules footballer who played for the Hawthorn Football Club in the Victorian Football League (VFL). Local brothers, Arthur Mills and Albert Mills played for Bethanga in the 1926 and 1927 Kiewa & District Football Association grand finals, before the family moved to Oxley, near Wangaratta, playing with Wangaratta Football Club in 1929, then both brothers made their debuts for the Hawthorn Football Club in 1930. Mills won the 1934 - Ovens & King Football League The Ovens & King Football Netball League is a minor country Australian rules football league based in North-Eastern Victoria in the vicinity of Wangaratta and more recently Benalla. History The ''Ovens & King Football League'' was formed on ... best and fairest award, the Charles Butler Medal when playing for the Waratahs Football Club. Mills coached the Waratahs FC to the 1935 O&KFL premiership Mills played in the 1940 O&KFL premiersh ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Percy Jones (footballer)
Percy Alan Jones (20 January 1908 – 14 March 1960) was an Australian rules footballer who played with Geelong in the Victorian Football League (VFL). Originally from Wangaratta, Jones played in Wangaratta's 1925 Ovens & Murray Football League premiership under coach, Percy Rowe. Jones crossed to the Hume Weir Football Club in 1926 (most likely for work during the construction of the Hume Weir), then was recruited to Geelong via Hume Weir Football Club in the Ovens & Murray Football League, after kicking 104 goals in 1928 Jones commenced training with Geelong in March, 1929 and made his senior VFL debut in June, 1929, in round eight, against Hawthorn, kicking two goals, then played again in round nine, against South Melbourne, kicking 1 goal. Jones kicked four goals in Weir United's 1931 Ovens & Murray Football League grand final win against West Albury. Jones kicked four goals for Border United FC (Albury) in their 1933 Ovens & Murray Football League one point grand ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ray Usher
Ray Usher (16 October 1904 – 15 April 1964) was a former Australian rules footballer who played with Melbourne in the Victorian Football League (VFL). Usher played with the Ebden Rovers Football Club in their losing grand final against Hume Weir FC in the Albury & Border Football Association in 1923. In 1924, Usher commenced the season playing with the Wangaratta Football Club in the Ovens & Murray Football League., but by June was playing with the Albury Football Club. In August, 1924, Usher was disqualified until the end of the season. Usher played with Albury once again in 1925. Usher trained with Richmond Football Club in early, 1926, but ended up playing with Coburg Football Club in 1926. In 1927, Usher played with the Eastern Suburbs Football Club premiership side, defeating Newtown in the Sydney competition. Usher made his VFL debut against Footscray in round eleven, 1928 at the Melbourne Cricket Ground. Usher went onto represent Victoria five times duri ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Allan Skehan
William Allan Skehan (1 January 1906 – 20 April 2004) was an Australian rules footballer who played for the Carlton Football Club in the Victorian Football League 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 ... (VFL). Notes External links * *Allan Skehan's profileat Blueseum 1906 births Carlton Football Club players Wangaratta Football Club players Australian rules footballers from Victoria (Australia) 2004 deaths {{AFL-bio-1906-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dinny Kelleher
Denis "Dinny" Kelleher (22 July 1902 – 30 May 1963) was an Australian rules footballer who played for Carlton and South Melbourne in the Victorian Football League (VFL). Early life Born in the small rural town of Baddaginnie in 1902. He apparently captained his school's football team, then went on to play with Baddaginnie in the Euroa District Football Association in 1919, 1920 and 1921. Kelleher then played with Benalla in the Ovens and Murray Football League in 1922 and 1923, gaining selection in the OMFL team against the VFL in 1923. He stood out of football in 1924 as Benalla refused to clear him to Wangaratta. Standing out of football for a year gave him an automatic clearance. At Wangaratta he played as the team's centre half-forward in their 1925 Ovens and Murray Football League premiership and 1926 Ovens and Murray Football League grand final loss to St. Patrick's. Kelleher represented the O&MFL in a match against the VFL in 1926 at Albury. VFL career Car ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jack Nolan (Australian Footballer)
Jack Nolan (14 May 1902 – 28 October 1971) was an Australian rules footballer who played with North Melbourne in the Victorian Football League (VFL). Nolan was born in Wangaratta and educated at the Wangaratta High School and went onto be a teacher at the Leongatha High School between 1925 and 1928. Nolan was recruited to North Melbourne from Leongatha in 1926. Nolan was a brother of VFL players, Clarrie and Leo. Nolan along with his brothers, established Nolan Brothers Sports Stores in Albury, Leeton and Wangaratta, which became one of the largest inland sports depots in Australia. Jack returned to the North East of Victoria and later played with West Albury West Albury is a suburb of the city of Albury, New South Wales, located west of the Albury Central Business District. At the , West Albury had a population of 3,851. West Albury covers the slopes of Nail Can Hill on the Murray River floodplain .... Nolan later became President of the Albury Athletic Club i ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gil Ebbott
Gilbert Henry Ebbott (26 August 1890 – 9 February 1960) was an Australian rules footballer who played with St Kilda in the Victorian Football League 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 ... (VFL). Notes External links * * 1890 births 1960 deaths Australian rules footballers from Victoria (state) St Kilda Football Club players Wangaratta Football Club players Australian military personnel of World War I {{AFL-bio-1890-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Charlie Meadway
Charles Bernard Meadway (16 October 1879 – 1 January 1962) was an Australian rules footballer who played with Carlton and Collingwood in the Victorian Football League 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 ... (VFL). Notes External links * 1879 births 1962 deaths VFL/AFL players born outside Australia Carlton Football Club players Collingwood Football Club players Wangaratta Football Club players Colony of New Zealand emigrants to colonial Australia Australian rules footballers from Victoria (state) Immigrants to Australia {{AFL-bio-1870s-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bill Hickey (footballer, Born 1880)
William Thomas Hickey (20 February 1880 – 15 March 1969) was a former Australian rules footballer who played with South Melbourne and Carlton in the Victorian Football League 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 ... (VFL). Notes References South Melbourne Team, ''Melbourne Punch'', (Thursday, 4 June 1903), p.16. External links * * Bill Hickey's profileat BlueseumBill Hickey’s Profileat On Reflection1903 - South Melbourne FC team photo Australian rules footballers from Victoria (state) Sydney Swans players Carlton Football Club players Wangaratta Football Club players 1880 births 1969 deaths {{AFL-bio-1880-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
