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Yea Football Club
Yea Football Club (colloquially known as The Tigers) is an Australian rules football club based in the Victoria (Australia), Victorian town of Yea, Victoria, Yea. The club competes in the Outer East Football Netball League. History The club was established in 1893 and initially competed in the North East Football Association, a competition that was centred around Seymour, Victoria, Seymour In 1902 the Alexandra & Yea Football Association was founded with clubs from Alexandra, Thornton, Yarck and Yea competing. Yea won the inaugural premiership. In 1904 the club accepted a return to the NEFA and stayed until 1909. In an attempt to revive interest in the district Yea helped to reform the Alexandra & Yea FA in 1911 after the competition had been inoperative for some time. In 1913 Yea played for one season in the King Parrot Creek Football Association, losing the Grand Final to Homewood 4.3.27 to 0.7.7. In 1924 Yea moved on to the Waranga North East FL.Kilmore Free Press page 2 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Outer East Football Netball League
The Outer East Football Netball League is an Australian rules football and netball league stretching from the Goulburn Valley, Dandenong Ranges and western Gippsland within Victoria. History The league was formed with the merger of the Yarra Valley Mountain District Football League and the South East Football Netball League in 2018. In 2020 the league admitted Broadford from the Riddell District Football League The Riddell District Football Netball League (RDFNL) is an Australian rules football and netball league in Victoria, Australia. The RDFNL covers towns in the Macedon Ranges and an area from Rockbank in the south to Broadford in the north. ... and junior club Berwick Springs. The ''Titans'' competed in the underage competition in 2019. The 2020 season was cancelled due to government restrictions of contact sport because of the Covid pandemic. Clubs Premier Division Division One Division Two In recess for 2023 Former Clubs Premiers Football Pr ... [...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] |
1893 Establishments In Australia
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Australian Rules Football Clubs In Victoria (state)
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Geelong Football Club
The Geelong Football Club, nicknamed the Cats, is a professional Australian rules football club based in Geelong, Victoria, Australia. The club competes in the Australian Football League (AFL), the sport's premier competition, and are the 2022 reigning premiers. The club formed in 1859, making it the second oldest club in the AFL after Melbourne and one of the oldest football clubs in the world.Official Website of the Geelong Football Club Retrieved on 10 June 2007. [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Shane McCarthy (footballer)
Shane McCarthy (born 22 April 1952) is a former Australian rules footballer who played with Geelong in the Victorian Football League (VFL). McCarthy, a defender, came from Yea originally and was a student at Assumption College. He appeared for Geelong in the final two home and away rounds of the 1970 VFL season and in round eight of the 1971 season. McCarthy is now a lawyer who lives in Sorrento, Victoria. His brothers Bernie McCarthy and Gavan McCarthy also played in the Victorian Football League, at North Melbourne. He had two sons that played league football as well, Matthew McCarthy, who played with Geelong and John McCarthy, who played for both Collingwood and Port Adelaide.''Herald Sun The ''Herald Sun'' is a conservative daily tabloid newspaper based in Melbourne, Australia, published by The Herald and Weekly Times, a subsidiary of News Corp Australia, itself a subsidiary of the Murdoch owned News Corp. The ''Herald S ...'"Teenager John McCarthy in line ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gavan McCarthy
Gavan McCarthy (born 16 May 1945) is a former Australian rules footballer who played with North Melbourne in the Victorian Football League (VFL). McCarthy, who was recruited from Yea, made two appearances for North Melbourne in the 1965 VFL season. His brother, Bernie McCarthy, was his teammate in the second of those matches, against Fitzroy at Brunswick Street Oval. He had another brother Shane McCarthy, who played for Geelong.''Herald Sun The ''Herald Sun'' is a conservative daily tabloid newspaper based in Melbourne, Australia, published by The Herald and Weekly Times, a subsidiary of News Corp Australia, itself a subsidiary of the Murdoch owned News Corp. The ''Herald S ...'"Port Adelaide football star John McCarthy dies in incident at Flamingo Hotel in Las Vegas" Jon Ralph, Andrew Capel References {{DEFAULTSORT:McCarthy, Gavan 1945 births Australian rules footballers from Victoria (state) North Melbourne Football Club players Living people ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bernie McCarthy
Bernard Francis McCarthy (21 August 1943 – 16 February 2019) was an Australian rules footballer who played with North Melbourne in the Victorian Football League (VFL). McCarthy was the eldest of three brothers from Yea who played in the VFL. The youngest, Shane, played at Geelong and the other, Gavan McCarthy, made two appearances for North Melbourne, one of them with Bernie in round five of the 1965 VFL season. A nephew, Matthew, was also a Geelong footballer and another, John, played at Collingwood and Port Adelaide. A centre half-forward, McCarthy partnered John Dugdale as North Melbourne's key forwards throughout the 1960s. He finished the 1971 season at Victorian Football Association (VFA) club Preston and was one of the club's best players in the Grand Final loss to Dandenong that year. His career then continued in the Bendigo Football League The Bendigo Football Netball League (previously known as the Sandhurst Football Association, Bendigo and District Foot ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
North Melbourne Football Club
The North Melbourne Football Club, nicknamed the Kangaroos, is a professional Australian rules football club. The men's team competes in the Australian Football League (AFL), and the women's team in the AFL Women's (AFLW). The Kangaroos also field a reserves men's team in the Victorian Football League (VFL). Founded in the suburb of North Melbourne in 1869 and based at the Arden Street Oval, it is the 4th oldest club in the competition and one of the oldest surviving clubs in the world. Its original home at Arden Street continues to serve as its headquarters, training facilities and home ground for its women's side. The club's senior men's team plays its home matches at Marvel Stadium in the Docklands area of Melbourne, Victoria, as well as Blundstone Arena in Hobart, Tasmania which is also used by the women's team as a secondary home ground. The club's mascot is a grey kangaroo wearing the club uniform, and its use dates from the mid-20th century. The club is also un ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jeff Hopgood
Jeff Hopgood (14 January 1948 – 8 November 2006) was an Australian rules footballer who played with North Melbourne in the Victorian Football League (VFL). Hopgood spent six season at North Melbourne without ever managing to cement his spot, although he did manage 16 games in 1972. After leaving North Melbourne, Hopgood played at Coburg and was a ruckman in their 1974 VFA premiership side. He later became influential in the Cairns sporting scene, serving as the president of AFL Cairns and the inaugural chairman of the Cairns Taipans basketball team, of which he was a co-founder. Affectionately known as Hoppy, he was killed in November 2006 when his four-wheel drive crashed into a tree near the Gold Coast Gold Coast may refer to: Places Africa * Gold Coast (region), in West Africa, which was made up of the following colonies, before being established as the independent nation of Ghana: ** Portuguese Gold Coast (Portuguese, 1482–1642) ** Dutch G .... References ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Robert Elliott (Australian Rules Footballer)
Robert Elliott (born 29 April 1953) is a former Australian rules footballer who played with Melbourne and St Kilda in the Victorian Football League (VFL). He is the younger brother of St Kilda Best and Fairest winner Glenn Elliott. Elliott, in 1978, kicked a goal after the siren In Australian rules football, if a player takes a mark or is awarded a free kick before the siren sounds to end a quarter, and the siren sounds before the player takes a set shot, the player is allowed to take the kick after the siren. Often, ... to give St Kilda a win over North Melbourne. External links * {{DEFAULTSORT:Elliott, Robert 1953 births Living people Australian rules footballers from Victoria (Australia) Melbourne Football Club players St Kilda Football Club players People educated at Scotch College, Melbourne ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Melbourne Football Club
The Melbourne Football Club, nicknamed the Demons, is a professional Australian rules football club that competes in the Australian Football League (AFL), the sport's elite competition. It is based in Melbourne, Victoria (Australia), Victoria, and plays its home games at the Melbourne Cricket Ground (MCG). Melbourne is the world's oldest football clubs, oldest professional club of any football code. Its origins can be traced to an 1858 letter in which Tom Wills, captain of the Victoria cricket team, calls for the formation of a "foot-ball club" with its own "code of laws". An informal Melbourne team played that winter and officially formed in May 1859, when Wills and three other members codified "Laws of Australian rules football#Melbourne Rules of 1859, The Rules of the Melbourne Football Club"—the basis of Australian rules football. The club was a dominant force in the early years of the game and a foundation member of the Victorian Football Association (VFA) in 1877 and t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
