Edwin Lionel Wilson (E. L Wilson) (28 March 186124 November 1951), along with Alan Mansfield, was the founder of

Collingwood Football Club The Collingwood Football Club, nicknamed the Magpies or colloquially the Pies, is a professional Australian rules football club based in Melbourne that competes in the Australian Football League (AFL), the sport's elite competition. The club w ...

. Wilson was approached by the newly formed club to be appointed president, which he rejected. He went on to become the first secretary of the

and also the first secretary of the VFL/AFL, Victorian Football League when the Australian rules#Emergence of the VFL, VFL was established in 1897. He held the position of secretary of the VFL for 34 years from 1897 to 1929. In 1930, the ''E. L. Wilson Shield'' was created to be awarded to each year's premiership-winning team. It was initially discontinued in 1978 when there was no room remaining on the shield, but it was expanded and reintroduced as a perpetual trophy in 2016 after it was rediscovered under a stairwell at AFL House. File:Collingwoodfc elwilson.JPG, Collingwood's E.L. Wilson File:Collingwoodfc.JPG, Collingwood premiership team

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