The Wunghnu Football Club, nicknamed the Magpies, was an

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club in the small Goulburn Valley town of

Wunghnu Wunghnu ( ) is a town in the Goulburn Valley region of northern Victoria (Australia), Victoria, Australia. The town is located in the Shire of Moira Local government in Australia, local government area, north of the state capital, Melbourne. Th ...

, Victoria, Australia.

History

It was playing in the

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until it was forced in 2011 into recess by the VCFL because they were deemed to be uncompetitive. The club was based in the small

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n town of

, which is approximately 200 km north of

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. Wunghnu played from 1888 to 1930 in the

Goulburn Valley Football Association The Goulburn Valley Football Association (GVFA) is an Australian rules football competition that was first established in 1888 in the Goulburn Valley of Victoria, Australia, with the foundation clubs being Cobram, Muckatah, Nathalia, Numurkah, ...

, a forerunner to the

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. From 1924 to 1928, the Wunghnu and Drumanure Football Clubs merged to form the Drumanure-Wunghnu side. Wunghnu played in some of the minor competitions around Shepparton until it joined the

in 1951. Wunghnu celebrated its first premiership in the P&DFL in 1958; a hat-trick of premierships came a few years later, in 1964, 1965 and 1966. Their last Premiership was in 1973. Players from the club recruited to play in the

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include

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1937 premiership player

Joe Sellwood Joseph Reuben Sellwood (24 January 1911 – 18 October 2007) was a New Zealand born Australian rules football player, playing 181 games (180 club, 1 representative) from 1930–1945. Family The son of Reuben and Jane Sellwood, Joseph Reuben ...

Football Premierships

Goulburn Valley Second Eighteens Football Association The Goulburn Valley Football Association (GVFA) is an Australian rules football competition that was first established in 1888 in the Goulburn Valley of Victoria, Australia, with the foundation clubs being Cobram, Muckatah, Nathalia, Numurkah ...

**1931 *

**1958, 1964, 1965, 1966, 1973

References

External links

Official Site
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