The Newlyn Football Netball Club is an

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and

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club from

Newlyn, Victoria Newlyn is a small, rural town in the Shire of Hepburn, in west-central Victoria, Australia. It is located northeast of Ballarat and northwest of Melbourne. It is 452 metres above sea level. At the , it had a population of 136 across 57 private ...

which competes in the

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. The Cats are one of the founding members of the CHFL.

History

Established in 1900, Newlyn Football Club commenced organised competition the following year in the Creswick District Football Association. Prior to 1932 there were 14 different competitions mainly covering the district around Creswick., winning a total of five premierships, before helping establish the Clunes Football Association in 1931. Newlyn was a strong combination, Between 1932 and 1938 the team contested six out of seven grand finals, winning in 1932, 1935, 1936 and 1938. Disrupted by

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the club claimed a fifth flag in 1949, it took another thirteen years before the club defeated Creswick to win the 1962 flag. In 1969 the club had its first VFL grown player when David McKay made his debut for . McKay would play in 263 games and be in four premierships sides. Locally that year the club won the flag against Springbank by five points. They went back to back the next year with a 61-point win against

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and finally in 1975 they defeated Bungaree again be 1975 by 67 points. In Clunes Football League last season in 1978, it was one of the most climatic in its history as Newlyn and Clunes played out the competition's only ever grand final draw with Clunes 9.15.69 to Newlyn 10.9.69. Clunes won the replay 20.5.125 to Newlyn 7.11.53. Two Premierships have been won in the Central Highlands Football League, in 1992 against Dunnstown and then eleven years later in 2003 against

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. The Sewell brothers, Brad and Myles both went on to play in stronger competitions,

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played 200 games for while his brother Myles won the J. J. Liston Trophy while playing for in the VFL.

Premierships

* Donated Trophies ** 1903, 1906, 1907 * Creswick District Football Association ** 1920, 1927, 1928, * Clunes Football League ** 1932, 1935, 1936, 1938, 1949, 1962, 1969, 1970, 1975, *

** 1992, 2003

VFL/AFL players

* David McKay - *

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Bibliography

* ''History of Football in the Ballarat District'' by John Stoward –

References

External links

* {{CHFNL Australian rules football clubs in Victoria (state) Netball teams in Victoria (state) 1900 establishments in Australia Australian rules football clubs established in 1900