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West Perth Football Club
The West Perth Football Club, nicknamed the Falcons, is an Australian rules football club located in Joondalup, Western Australia. West Perth competes in the West Australian Football League (WAFL) and WAFL Women's (WAFLW) and is the oldest existing Australian rules football club in Western Australia. Originally located at Leederville Oval, the team was relocated in 1994 to Arena Joondalup, a sports complex in the northern suburbs of Perth. The team's club song is "It's a Grand Old Flag" and its traditional rivals are East Perth. History The Victorian Football Club was established at a meeting on 2 May 1885. The new team was to play its games at the Recreation Ground (now Esplanade Reserve) and wear the colours cardinal and navy. Two weeks after the establishment of the new club it formed the WAFA together with Rovers and Fremantle. The three clubs, along with High School (now Hale School) were to play out the 1885 season, however High School dropped out after just two rounds ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Fremantle Football Club (1882–1886)
The Fremantle Football Club was an Australian rules football club, based in Fremantle, Western Australia, that played in the Western Australian Football Association (WAFA) from 1885 to 1886. The team won the WAFA premiership in 1886. The club played their games at the Esplanade in Fremantle, on the present site of the Fremantle railway station. History Formation The club was formed in 1882 as a rugby football club. In 1883 the club was the primary instigator of the change of most clubs from rugby football to Victorian rules, the predecessor to Australian rules football. WAFA The club was a founding member of the Western Australian Football Association in 1885. In the inaugural season, Fremantle finished third out of three teams, behind Rovers, Victorians and a High School team which dropped out of the competition two rounds into the season. The next season, 1886, the team finished first in the league to claim the premiership. The club recorded large victories over most ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Loughridge
John Loughridge (14 February 1923 – 4 November 1981) was an Australian rules footballer who played with West Perth in the West Australian National Football League (WANFL) during the 1940s. Centremen John Loughridge had his best league season in 1946 when he not only won a Simpson Medal for his performance in West Perth's losing Grand Final side but he was also awarded a Sandover Medal The Sandover Medal is an Australian rules football award, given annually since 1921 to the fairest and best player in the West Australian Football League. The award was donated by Alfred Sandover M.B.E., a prominent Perth hardware merchant and be ... for his efforts during the season. He had been runner up in the Sandover in 1945 and was club champion at West Perth on three occasions over the course of his career. Loughridge played in West Perth's 1949 premiership side and was also a three time state representative. In 2002 he was named as a half forward flanker in West Perth's official 'T ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ed O'Keefe (footballer)
Terrence Bernard 'Ed' O'Keefe (14 May 1913 – 24 December 1986) was an Australian rules footballer who played with West Perth in the WANFL from 1933 to 1946. He was also known by his nickname Checker and in 2000 was named in the ruck for West Perth's official 'Team of the Century'. O'Keefe was a member of West Perth's 1934, 1935 and 1941 premiership sides. A versatile footballer, he could play in both the ruck or across half back. He was a Sandover Medal The Sandover Medal is an Australian rules football award, given annually since 1921 to the fairest and best player in the West Australian Football League. The award was donated by Alfred Sandover M.B.E., a prominent Perth hardware merchant and be ...ist in 1940, to break Haydn Bunton, Sr's sequence of two wins in a row. O'Keefe also won four Fairest and best awards for West Perth, with them coming in consecutive seasons from 1938 to 1941. During his career he represented Western Australia in six interstate matches. Refere ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ted Flemming (footballer)
Edward Joseph Flemming (30 October 1902, date of death unknown) was an Australian rules footballer who played 229 games for West Perth in the WAFL/WANFL from 1922 to 1938. He is a half back flanker in West Perth's official 'Team of the Century'. Flemming was a versatile player and despite spending much of his career as a defender topped the league's goal kicking in 1925 with 50 goals. A dual West Perth Best and fairest winner, Flemming also won a Sandover Medal in 1930. He captained West Perth in the 1931 season and played in three premiership teams during the 1930s. He was a regular interstate football representative for Western Australia and played in a variety of positions for his state. Leading player and coach Johnny Leonard considered Flemming to be one of the most freakish footballers he ever saw, surpassed only by South Melbourne champion full forward Bob Pratt Harold Robert Pratt Sr. (31 August 1912 – 6 January 2001) was an Australian rules footballer who ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jim Craig (Australian Footballer)
James Craig (15 October 1900 – 23 November 1978) was an Australian rules footballer who played for the West Perth Football Club in the West Australian Football League (WAFL). He was the winner of the 1927 Sandover Medal as the "fairest and best" player in the league. Family James Craig was born in Kalgoorlie, Western Australia on 15 October 1900.West Australian Football Hall of Fame members – West Australian Football Commission. Retrieved 20 May 2012. Football West Perth He began playing with West Perth in 1918. Craig captained West Perth during part of the 1928 season and for the entire 1930 season. Having announce his retirement prior to the 1931 season, he resumed training in late June, and played several matches in the latter ha ...[...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jim Gosnell
James Gosnell (7 July 1899 – 7 July 1969) was an Australian rules footballer who played with West Perth in the West Australian Football League (WAFL) during the 1920s. Gosnell was a defender and started his WAFL career in 1918. He then spent the next two years in the Goldfields Football League where he played at Kalgoorlie Railways. In 1921 he returned to West Perth and featured regularly in their team for the rest of the decade. He won the Sandover Medal in 1924, was also runner-up a further two times and won a West Perth 'Fairest and Best' award in 1927. Gosnell captained his club in 1928 and represented Western Australia in 15 interstate matches. The Sandover winner ended back at Kalgoorlie in 1930 was a Dillon Medalist before retiring. He was later named on the interchange bench West Perth's official 'Team of the Century' and in 2007 was inducted into the West Australian Football Hall of Fame The West Australian Football Hall of Fame was created in 2002 to recognise a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Harold Boyd (footballer, Born 1900)
Harold Boyd (10 December 1900 – 10 August 1990) was an Australian rules footballer who played for West Perth in the West Australian Football League (WAFL) during the 1920s. A half back, Boyd started his career at West Perth when the WAFL resumed after the First World War. He won a Sandover Medal in 1922 and was appointed captain-coach the following season. In 1924 he lost his coaching duties but remained captain. He retired in 1925 after playing his 100th game, but returned to West Perth in 1928 as coach and remained with the club for three seasons. Boyd occupies a half back flank in West Perth's official Team of the Century. He played seven interstate matches for Western Australia during his career. See also * 1921 Perth Carnival The 1921 Perth Carnival was the fourth edition of the Australian National Football Carnival, an Australian rules football interstate competition, staged in August 1921. It was the first carnival to take place in Perth and was won by the home sta ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
West Australian State Premiership
The West Australian State PremiershipSeveral different names were used in contemporary sources for the matches, including "state premiership", "state championship" and "the football championship". was an Australian rules football match contested intermittently between 1902 and 1924 between the premiers of the Western Australian Football Association / West Australian Football League (WAFA / WAFL) and the Goldfields Football Association / Goldfields Football League (GFA / GFL).The coastal league was known as the Western Australian Football Association from 1885–1907, and as the West Australian Football League (WAFL) from 1908–30. The goldfields league was known as the Goldfields Football Association (GFA) from 1901–07 and again from 1920–25, and as the Goldfields Football League (GFL) from 1908–19. List of winners won the most championships overall, winning five: 1902, 1904, 1906, 1909 and 1910: See also *Australian rules football in the Goldfields region of Western ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
List Of West Australian Football League Premiers
This is a list of the West Australian Football League premiers, the premier state-based Australian rules football league in Western Australia, and includes premiers of the Western Australian Football Association (1885–1906), Western Australian National Football League (1931–1979), WA State League (1990) and Westar Rules (1997–2000). Premiers In 1967, WAFL football historian Dave Clement discovered a discrepancy between the official premiership list as published by the league and what he had determined from examination of records from the time. The original list has Fremantle winning six of the first seven premierships; however, documentation was found that the Unions club had won three premierships in succession. The discrepancy was not officially acknowledged and fixed until the League's centenary in 1985. In the early years, a number of cups were awarded to clubs who won the premiership, including the "Dixson Cup" and the "Farley Cup". On March 27, 1907, the WAFA was re ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Western Mail (Western Australia)
''The Western Mail'', or ''Western Mail'', was the name of two weekly newspapers published in Perth, Western Australia. Published 1885–1955 The first ''Western Mail'' was published on 19 December 1885 by Charles Harper and John Winthrop Hackett, co-owners of ''The West Australian'', the state's major daily paper. It was printed by James Gibney at the paper's office in St Georges Terrace. In 1901, in the publication ''Twentieth century impressions of Western Australia'', a history of the early days of the ''West Australian'' and the ''Western Mail'' was published. In the 1920s ''The West Australian'' employed its first permanent photographer Fred Flood, many of whose photographs were featured in the ''Western Mail''. In 1933 it celebrated its first use of photographs in 1897 in a ''West Australian'' article. The Western Mail featured early work from a large number of prominent West Australian authors and artists, including; Mary Durack, Elizabeth Durack, May Gibbs, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Daily News (Perth, Western Australia)
The ''Daily News'', historically a successor of ''The Inquirer'' and ''The Inquirer and Commercial News'', was an afternoon daily English language newspaper published in Perth, Western Australia, from 1882 to 1990, though its origin is traceable from 1840. History One of the early newspapers of the Western Australian colony was ''The Inquirer'', established by Francis Lochee and William Tanner on 5 August 1840. Lochee became sole proprietor and editor in 1843 until May 1847 when he sold the operation to the paper's former compositor Edmund Stirling. In July 1855, ''The Inquirer'' merged with the recently established ''Commercial News and Shipping Gazette'', owned by Robert John Sholl, as ''The Inquirer & Commercial News''. It ran under the joint ownership of Stirling and Sholl. Sholl departed and, from April 1873, the paper was produced by Stirling and his three sons, trading as Stirling & Sons. Edmund Stirling retired five years later and his three sons took control as Stirl ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
