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1896 VFA Season
The 1896 VFA season was the 20th season of the Victorian Football Association (VFA), the highest-level senior Australian rules football competition in Victoria (state), Victoria. The season began on 2 May and concluded with a playoff match on 3 October, in which defeated by one goal to claim its first and only VFA premiership. It was the final season in which the VFA was strongest senior competition in Victoria, with eight of its strongest clubs leaving the Association and establishing the rival Australian Football League, Victorian Football League from 1897 VFL season, 1897. Premiership season In 1896, the VFA competition consisted of thirteen teams of 20 on-the-field players each. Because there was an odd number of teams, at least one team had a bye each week; the idle club often travelled to Ballarat to play one of the local senior clubs in a non-premiership match. When reporting match scores in 1896, the number of goals and behinds scored by each team is given; however, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Norman Waugh
Norman James "Norm" Waugh (10 May 1874 – 6 August 1934) was an Australian rules footballer who played for the Essendon Football Club in the Victorian Football League (1897–1989), Victorian Football League (VFL). In the first year of competition, he became one of the club's and leagues first premiership players, during the 1897 VFL season, under the captaincy of George Stuckey. Waugh made his debut against in Round 1 of the season, at Corio Oval. Waugh was also Essendon's first-ever List of Essendon Football Club leading goalkickers, leading goalkicker in a VFL season. His 23 goals was the third-highest in the League, behind Jack Leith of Melbourne (26), and Eddy James of Geelong (27). He was the youngest son of James Swanton Waugh, Dr James S. Waugh, the first president of Wesley College (Victoria), Wesley College. After retiring from football, he entered the insurance industry and became the chief executive officer of the National Mutual Company in South Africa. He died in ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
East Melbourne Cricket Ground
The East Melbourne Cricket Ground was a grass oval sports venue located at the southwest corner of Jolimont Road and Jolimont Parade (now known as Wellington Parade South) in East Melbourne, Victoria, Australia.Santo Caruso, Marc Fiddian and Jim Main, ''Football Grounds of Melbourne'' (Melbourne: Pennon Publishing, 2002 . The site is best known for playing host to many sporting events during the city of Melbourne's early existence, consisting mainly of cricket and Australian rules football, although the ground occasionally hosted soccer matches. Its closure was predicated by the annexure of the land by Victorian Railways to enable stabling and marshalling of trains as part of the electrification of Melbourne's metropolitan rail service. History The ground was opened in 1860 and closed in 1921. It adjoined the Melbourne Cricket Ground and was not far from the Richmond Cricket Ground, all three grounds being sited in the area formerly known as Captain Lonsdale's Cow Paddock, now ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dinny McKay
Denis "Dinny" McKay (23 November 1867 – 17 August 1897) was an Australian rules footballer who played with South Melbourne in the Victorian Football Association (VFA) and Victorian Football League (VFL). He played with Richmond in 1892 and 1893, but otherwise was with South Melbourne until their final VFA season in 1896. His sudden death during the 1897 VFL season was considered a severe loss to football. Career VFA years Born in 1867, McKay played originally for the South Ballarat Football Club. He began at South Melbourne in 1886 and became a leading member of the team. Regarded as one of the best all-round players in the colony, McKay was a regular Victorian representative in intercolonial matches. A forward, he was the competition's leading goal-kicker in the 1888 VFA season, credited with either 49 or 50 goals depending on the source. South Melbourne were premiers that season, the first of three successive premierships McKay was part of. In 1892 he went over to Ric ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Frank Hailwood
Frank Hailwood (3 April 1873 – 21 May 1944) was an Australian rules footballer who played for the Collingwood Football Club in the Victorian Football League (VFL). Family One of the eight children of Joseph Hailwood (1834–1912), and Ellen Hailwood (1839-1916), née Connor, Francis Hailwood was born at Alexandra, Victoria on 3 April 1873. His brother, John Hailwood (1870-1917), was killed in action while serving with the First AIF in Belgium on 4 October 1917. Football Collingwood (VFA) Recruited from Collingwood Juniors. Collingwood (VFL) Hailwood was Collingwood's ruckman during seven seasons in eight years for Collingwood in the VFL. Hailwood played 150 games for Collingwood, including the 1902 Grand Final win over Essendon. "Old Boy's" Champion Player of 1899 At the end of the 1899 season, in the process of naming his own "champion player", the football correspondent for ''The Argus'' ("Old Boy"), selected a team of the best players of the 1899 VFL competition: * ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jim Gregory (footballer)
Jim Gregory (13 February 1876 – 14 May 1949) was an Australian rules footballer who played with Collingwood in the Victorian Football League (VFL). Family The son of George Gregory (1839-1911), and Christina Gregory (1846-1910), née Mcpherson, James Grant Gregory was born at Ballarat, Victoria on 3 February 1876. He married Honora "Nora" O'Connor (1874-1948), in Perth, Western Australia on 24 November 1905. Siblings There were a number of talented footballers among his brothers, including: * John "Jack" Gregory, born "McPherson" (1864-1923), played in the VFA with Footscray. * George James Wellington Gregory (1866–1907), played in the Ballarat competition. * Charles Waterloo Gregory (1867–1939), played in the Ballarat competition. * Colin Campbell Gregory (1874-1907), played in the VFA with St Kilda (1894), and Footscray (1897 to 1901). * Frederick Birchall Gregory (1878–1968), played in the VFA with West Melbourne. * Duncan Alexander Gregory (1880–1964), played ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Danny Flaherty
Danny Flaherty (19 March 1873 – 10 October 1901) was an Australian rules footballer who played with Collingwood in the VFA and Victorian Football League The Victorian Football League (VFL) is an Australian rules football competition in Australia operated by the Australian Football League (AFL) as a second-tier, regional, semi-professional competition. It includes teams from clubs based in east ... (VFL). Family The youngest son of Hugh James Flaherty (-1893), and Bridget Flaherty, née Toohey, Hugh James Flaherty was born at Sandridge, Victoria (now known as Port Melbourne) on 19 March 1873. Death He died (suddenly) of pneumonia at the Melbourne Hospital on 10 October 1901. Notes References * Holmesby, Russell & Main, Jim (2014), ''The Encyclopedia of AFL Footballers: Every AFL/VFL player since 1897 (10th ed.)'', Seaford, Victoria: BAS Publishing. External links * * Danny Flaherty's profileat Collingwood Forever 1873 births 1901 deaths Austr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Harry Dowdall
Henry Arthur Dowdall (29 June 1872 – 9 May 1912) was an Australian rules footballer who played for Collingwood in the 1897 inaugural Victorian Football League (VFL) season. Family The son of James Dowdall and Isabella McGowan, Harry was small of stature and lightly built, and used these traits to his advantage, particularly in wet weather. Football Harry's older brother Jim had both previously played for South Melbourne in the Victorian Football Association The Victorian Football League (VFL) is an Australian rules football competition in Australia operated by the Australian Football League (AFL) as a second-tier, regional, semi-professional competition. It includes teams from clubs based in east ... (VFA) from 1887, with Harry playing in the 2nd Twenty. In 1892 they both tried to move to Collingwood. Jim was unsuccessful and instead played for Richmond.Contemporary newspaper reports In Collingwood's final game of the 1897 VFL season, Harry refused to play unless he ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dick Condon
Richard Patrick Condon (19 March 1876 – 27 December 1946) was an Australian rules footballer who played for Collingwood and Richmond in the Victorian Football Association (VFA) and the Victorian Football League (VFL) across two decades in the 1890s and 1900s. Talent Condon was a highly skilled player, a wiry and tenacious man of greater than average height (5'11"; 180 cm), with great speed, brilliant evasive skills, and an outstanding capacity for reading a game. He played mainly as a follower. Condon is widely credited as the man who contributed the most to the development of the stab kick, which—once the specially designed "blunter" Sherrin Match II football was introduced into the VFL—became the central feature of Collingwood's pattern of play. An 18 August 1905 newspaper report, referring to Condon as "that fiery football genius", described his coaching style as a "combination of brimstone oratory and skilful tactics". 1899 team of "champions" At the end ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Eaglehawk Football Club
The Eaglehawk Football Netball Club is an Australian rules football and netball club based in the town of Eaglehawk, Victoria and have competed in every BFL season since the league began in 1880, with the exception of 1904. Eaglehawk teams currently compete in the Bendigo Football Netball League (BFNL). Eaglehawk drew level with Sandhurst in 2007 when they won their 26th premiership. The following year they were premiers again, setting a new league record. Eaglehawk have won the most senior football premierships in the BFNL with 28. Senior Football Premieships * Bendigo Football League (28): **1882, 1883, 1886, 1887, 1889 **1894, 1895, 1896, 1897, 1898 **1901, 1903, 1906, 1908 **1922, 1924 **1935 **1941, 1946 **1953, 1957 **1968 **1971 **1980, 1982 **2007, 2008 **2018 VFL / AFL players The following footballers played with Eaglehawk prior to making their senior VFL / AFL debut. *1907 - Charlie Clymo ( St Kilda player & Geelong coach) *1936 - Almond Richards - ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bendigo Football League
The Bendigo Football Netball League (previously known as the Bendigo and District Football Association, Bendigo Football Association and Bendigo Football League) is an Australian rules football and netball competition based in the Bendigo region of Victoria (Australia), Victoria. Formed on 10 June 1881 by the city's three clubs as the Sandhurst Football Association, it is one of the oldest football leagues in Australia, and among its members are some of the oldest football clubs in Australia, including the Castlemaine Football Club, acknowledged as the second oldest football club in Australia and one of the oldest football club, oldest in the world. Clubs Location Current clubs In 2024, the Bendigo Football Netball League was reduced from ten football teams to nine, following the departure of the Kyneton Football Club to the Riddell District Football Netball League. In the same year, Broadford Football Netball Club, Broadford Football Club indicated its intention to ent ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1878 VFA Season
The 1878 VFA season was the second season of the Victorian Football Association (VFA), the highest-level Australian rules football competition in the colony of Victoria. Like the 1877 season, the existence of the VFA was effectively an administrative change only, and there was no significant change to the manner in which matches were scheduled and played – or the premiership decided – compared to the unaffiliated 1876 season. The premiership was won by the Geelong Football Club, after it defeated in a playoff match on 5 October. It was the club's first VFA premiership, and the first in a sequence of three consecutive premierships won from 1878 to 1880. Geelong was unbeaten during the year. Association membership The number of senior metropolitan clubs in the Association increased from five to seven in 1878, with and West Melbourne being newly promoted to senior ranks for 1878, having been leading junior teams in 1877. Additionally, several provincial teams, includi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
VFA Grand Final 1896 Between Collingwood Vs South Melbourne At East Melbourne Cricket Ground Weekly Times 10 October 1896 - trade association of the German pharmaceutical in ...
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