The West Melbourne Football Club (also known as West Melbourne Juniors) was an
Australian rules football
Australian football, also called Australian rules football or Aussie rules, or more simply football or footy, is a contact sport played between two teams of 18 players on an oval field, often a modified cricket ground. Points are scored by k ...
club that competed in junior competitions in
Victoria from the late 1900s until the 1940s.
The club was founded in 1918, indirectly succeeding the original
West Melbourne Football Club
West Melbourne Football Club was an Australian rules football club which played in the Victorian Football Association (VFA). Its senior side competed in the VFA from 1878 through 1908, its peak as a club coming after it won the 1906 premiershi ...
that disbanded in 1908.
History
West Melbourne was an inaugural club in the
Victorian Junior Football League in
1919
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, operating as an affiliate to
Victorian Football League
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seniors club .
In the
1920 season, West Melbourne faced multiple heavy losses, including a 197-point loss against
Carlton District and a 229-point loss against
St Kilda District.
The club left the VJFL at the end of the season.
After leaving the VJFL, West Melbourne moved to the
Victorian Football Association Sub-Districts, competing at different points in both the A Grade and B Grade.
The club had far more success, winning at least eight premierships, including seven by the end of 1933.
Records show the club also competed in the Catholic Young Men's Society Football Association (CYMSFA) in 1930.
Former and player
Jack McDonagh joined West Melbourne as captain-coach in 1941. The club stopped competing after the 1942 season during
World War II
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, and did not re-emerge after the end of the war.
References
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Essendon Football Club
Australian rules football clubs established in 1918
Australian rules football clubs in Melbourne
1918 establishments in Australia