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1910 Championship Of Australia
The 1910 Championship of Australia was an Australian rules football match that took place on 15 October 1910. The championship was contested by the premiers of the VFL, Collingwood and the premiers of the SAFL, Port Adelaide. The match was played at Adelaide Oval in Adelaide, South Australia. To avoid a clash of guernsey designs Port Adelaide offered to wear its jumpers inside out resulting in an "all-black" appearance. The match, played in front of 7,000, was won by Port Adelaide by a margin of 59 points, giving Port Adelaide its 2nd Championship of Australia Title. Teams Scorecard References Championship of Australia Championship of Australia The Championship of Australia was an Australian rules football tournament which was contested between football clubs from the Victorian, South Australian, Western Australian and Tasmanian football leagues. The Championship took place three t ... October 1910 sports events {{AFL-competition-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Adelaide Oval
Adelaide Oval is a sports ground in Adelaide, South Australia, located in the parklands between the city centre and North Adelaide. The venue is predominantly used for cricket and Australian rules football, but has also played host to rugby league, rugby union, soccer, tennis among other sports as well as regularly being used to hold concerts. Austadiums.com described Adelaide Oval as being "one of the most picturesque Test cricket grounds in Australia, if not the world." After the completion of the ground's most recent redevelopment in 2014, sports journalist Gerard Whateley described the venue as being "the most perfect piece of modern architecture because it's a thoroughly contemporary stadium with all the character that it's had in the past." Adelaide Oval has been headquarters to the South Australian Cricket Association (SACA) since 1871 and South Australian National Football League (SANFL) since 2014. The stadium is managed by the Adelaide Oval Stadium Management Autho ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Frank Hansen (Australian Footballer)
Frank Ivor Hansen (4 February 1884 – 5 May 1975) was an Australian Rules footballer who played for and in the South Australian National Football League, South Australian Football League. Early life He was the son of James Hansen and Briget Neesen, Norwegian and Scottish immigrants. South Adelaide Frank Hansen debuted for South Adelaide in the 1903 SAFL season. He would lead the club in goal kicking in 1907 with 24 goals, 1908 with 28 and 1909 with 20. Port Adelaide He led the competitions goal tally for four consecutive seasons between 1910 and 1913. He would play only one game in 1914 retiring at the age of 29. Coaching Frank Hansen was coach of Port Adelaide from 1919–1923 in varying capacities. Personal life Frank Hansen married during 1914 and died during 1975 at the age of 91. References 1884 births 1975 deaths South Adelaide Football Club players Port Adelaide Football Club (SANFL) players Port Adelaide Football Club players (all comp ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jim Jackson (Australian Rules Footballer)
James Jackson (28 April 1890 – 29 August 1976) was an Australian rules footballer who played with St Kilda, Collingwood and Hawthorn in the Victorian Football League. Family The son of Thomas Charles Jackson (1856–1905) and Martha Anne Jackson, nee Cheetham (1861–1933), Jim Jackson was born at Maidstone in the north-west of Melbourne on 28 April 1890. Football Jackson was a wingman and had a long career with 17 years between his first and last season. He started his career at St Kilda in 1909 but after managing just one game crossed to Collingwood the following year. He was unlucky not to play in a premiership team during his time at the Magpies as he was on military service when they won in 1917 and 1919. He finished his career at Hawthorn, firstly in the VFA and then when the club joined the VFL in 1925 when he was appointed their inaugural VFL captain. In 1932 Jackson returned to Hawthorn as their non-playing coach but the Hawks finished with just three wins and ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dan Minogue
Daniel Thomas Minogue (4 September 1891 – 27 July 1961) was an Australian rules footballer, who played with three different clubs in the (then) Victorian Football League (VFL), and who was the coach of five different VFL clubs. Family The son of Matthew Minogue (1868-1899), and Ellen Minogue (1868-1896), née Madden, Daniel Thomas Minogue was born at Bendigo on 4 September 1891. He married Ann Marion Morrison (1893-1968) on 30 March 1921. Education He was educated at the Marist Brothers' College, Bendigo. Football Collingwood (VFL) Minogue was considered a courageous, or perhaps reckless, centre half-back. On one occasion he sustained a broken collarbone playing for Collingwood Football Club in the first minute of the 1911 Grand Final and then played out the entire match. Third Divisional team (AIF) He was the vice-captain of the (winning) Third Australian Divisional team in the famous "Pioneer Exhibition Game" of Australian Rules football, held in London, in Octobe ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Les Hughes
Leslie Horace Hughes (18 April 1884 – 27 September 1962) was an Australian rules footballer who played for Collingwood in the Victorian Football League The Victorian Football League (VFL) is an Australian rules football league in Australia serving as one of the second-tier regional semi-professional competitions which sit underneath the fully professional Australian Football League (AFL). It ... (VFL). References External links * * 1884 births Collingwood Football Club players Collingwood Football Club Premiership players 1962 deaths Australian rules footballers from Melbourne Three-time VFL/AFL Premiership players People from Northcote, Victoria {{AFL-bio-1884-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Percy Wilson (footballer)
Percival Edward Wilson (31 March 1889 – 28 March 1941) was an Australian rules footballer who played with Collingwood and Melbourne in the Victorian Football League (VFL) during the early 1900s. A rover, Wilson won two premierships with Collingwood. The latter, in 1917, was a captain. In 1921 he moved to the Demons where he became captain and coach of the club. Wilson coached Camberwell Camberwell () is a district of South London, England, in the London Borough of Southwark, southeast of Charing Cross. Camberwell was first a village associated with the church of St Giles and a common of which Goose Green is a remnant. This e ... in 1930–31. Death Having been ill for several months, he died on 28 March 1941. Footnotes References 'Fairplay', "Ornament to the Game: Percy Wilson's Great Record", ''The Sporting Globe'', (Saturday, 7 July 1928), p.6 External links * Percy Wilson, ''Demonwiki''.Percy Wilson, ''The VFA Project''.Percy Wilson, ''Boyles Football Photos' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jock McHale
James Francis "Jock" McHale, (12 December 1882 – 4 October 1953) was an Australian rules football player and coach for the Collingwood Football Club in the Victorian Football League in a marathon career that extended from 1903 to 1949. Early life The son of an Irish-born policeman, John Francis, and his wife Mary (née Gibbons), the young McHale was born in Sydney, New South Wales, but moved to Melbourne with his family at age 5. He attended St Brigid's primary school in North Fitzroy and St Paul's in Coburg, then moved on to Christian Brothers' College (Parade) in East Melbourne and completed three years of secondary school. Having just turned 15, he left school to take a position with the McCracken Brewery. Playing career McHale joined Coburg, at the time a junior club, and came to prominence with his consistency, which led to an invitation to play at Collingwood. McHale made his league debut in 1903 for Collingwood, playing as a half-back before moving into the centre. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dick Lee (Australian Footballer)
Walter Henry "Dick" Lee (19 March 1889 – 11 September 1968) was an Australian rules footballer who played for the Collingwood Football Club in the (then) Victorian Football League (VFL). Family The son of long-term Collingwood trainer Walter Henry Lee (1863–1952), and Isabella Lee (1867–1929), née Turnbull, Walter Henry Lee was born in Collingwood on 19 March 1889. He married Zella Dixon in 1927. Football Lee was one of the first great forwards in Australian Football with an ability to win the ball on the ground or in the air. He was considered one of the finest practitioners of the place kick in the game, a reputation which followed long after the skill disappeared from the game. In 1912, Lee had a cartilage removed from his knee; and, according to his (then) team captain, Dan Minogue, writing in 1937, Lee was the first senior VFL footballer to have that operation. His last kick in his last match for Collingwood scored Collingwood's final goal in its six-point loss t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Archibald Hosie
Archibald Hosie (22 August 1873 – 21 April 1953) was an Australian rules footballer and coach for the Football Club in the South Australian Football Association. In 1902, Archibald Hosie captained South Australia to a win over Victoria on the Melbourne Cricket Ground The Melbourne Cricket Ground (MCG), also known locally as "The 'G", is an Australian sports stadium located in Yarra Park, Melbourne, Victoria. Founded and managed by the Melbourne Cricket Club, it is the largest stadium in the Southern .... References Port Adelaide Football Club (SANFL) players Port Adelaide Football Club players (all competitions) Port Adelaide Football Club (SANFL) coaches Australian rules footballers from South Australia 1873 births Year of death missing {{AFL-bio-1870s-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
George Dempster (footballer)
George Percival Dempster (28 August 1882 – 25 February 1960) was an Australian rules footballer 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 ... for . He captained the club in 1912. Dempster was born in Queenstown, South Australia, to Helen Wylie Caithness Begg and George Wafford Dempster. References 1882 births 1960 deaths People from Queenstown, South Australia Port Adelaide Football Club (SANFL) players Port Adelaide Football Club players (all competitions) Australian rules footballers from South Australia {{AFL-bio-1882-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Horrie Pope
Horace Victor Pope (5 June 1887 – 19 June 1949) was an Australian rules footballer who played for . He captained the club in the second half of 1919. Family The son of Rev. Henry James Pope (1844-1919), and Grace Holman Pope (1857-1920), née Temby, Horace Victor Pope was born in North Adelaide, South Australia on 5 June 1887. He married Eliza Hilda Williams (1880-1957) on 1 July 1912, They had three children: a stillborn daughter, and two sons, Kenneth Charles Pope (1917-1944), and Richard Horace Pope (1919-1942). Football From 1905 to 1919, Horrie Pope played 155 games for Port Adelaide Port Adelaide is a port-side region of Adelaide, approximately northwest of the Adelaide city centre, Adelaide CBD. It is also the namesake of the City of Port Adelaide Enfield council, a suburb, a federal and state electoral division and is t ...; and he also played in one additional game in 1920. When Alex "Bandy" McFarlane resigned mid-way through the 1919 season, Pope was appoint ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Harold Oliver (Australian Footballer)
William Harold Oliver (12 August 1891 – 15 November 1958) was an Australian rules footballer. Harold Oliver was a key player to some of South Australian football's most successful teams. He starred in South Australia's victorious 1911 Australian football championship along with Port Adelaide's 1914 "Invincibles" team. After being close to retiring from the game after World War I, he returned to captain both Port Adelaide to the 1921 SAFL premiership and South Australia in a game against Western Australia. His reputation as an early exponent of the spectacular mark—along with his general skill at playing the game—saw him regarded as one of the best players South Australia has produced. Early life in Waukaringa (1891–1895) Cornish immigrants James Oliver and Sarah Mill settled in the gold-mining town of Waukaringa in the late 1870s. It was common for Cornish people, where mining was a key industry, to move to Australia and use their knowledge to attempt a be ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
