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1972 Carlton Football Club Season
The 1972 Carlton Football Club season was the Carlton Football Club's 109th season of competition, and 76th as a member of the Australian Football League. Carlton fielded teams in the senior, reserves and under-19s grades of the 1982 VFL season. Under captain-coach John Nicholls (footballer), John Nicholls, who assumed the coaching role this season after the departure of dual-premiership coach Ron Barassi at the end of 1971, Carlton won the VFL minor and major premierships, defeating in the 1972 VFL Grand Final, Grand Final. It was the 11th senior VFL premiership in the club's history. Following the VFL season, Carlton competed in the 1972 Championship of Australia, Championship of Australia tournament, finishing runner-up to the SANFL's North Adelaide Football Club, North Adelaide. The club then embarked upon a world tour, playing three exhibition matches overseas against an Australian All-Stars team. Club summary The 1972 VFL season was the 76th season of the Australian Foot ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Carlton Football Club
The Carlton Football Club, nicknamed the Blues, is a professional Australian rules football club that competes in the Australian Football League (AFL), the sport's top professional competition. Founded in 1864 in Carlton, an inner suburb of Melbourne, Victoria, Carlton quickly became a dominant club in early Australian rules football competitions, and was a foundation member of the Victorian Football Association (VFA), winning the inaugural premiership in 1877. In 1896, Carlton joined the breakaway Victorian Football League (since renamed the AFL), and alongside rivals , and , is regarded as one of the league's historical "Big Four" clubs, having won sixteen VFL/AFL premierships, equal with Essendon as the most of any AFL club. Carlton's headquarters and training facilities are located in Carlton North at Princes Park, its traditional home ground, and it currently plays its home matches at Docklands Stadium and the Melbourne Cricket Ground. In 2017, Carlton fielded a team in ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Carlton North, Victoria
Carlton North is an inner-city suburb in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia, north of Melbourne's Central Business District, located within the Cities of Melbourne and Yarra local government areas. Carlton North recorded a population of 6,177 at the 2021 census. The suburb is bordered by Princes Street and Cemetery Road to the south, Royal Parade to the west, Nicholson Street to the east and Park Street to the north. Carlton North is home to the Melbourne General Cemetery and the Princes Park, which contains the Princes Park Football Ground. Its main commercial area is along Rathdowne Street, which has numerous cafés, restaurants, small fashion boutiques, bookshops and other businesses. Today, Carlton North, like other inner-northern suburbs of Melbourne, contains a mixture of white-collar professionals, bureaucrats and academics. The area has become more gentrified than Fitzroy North, Brunswick or Collingwood, resulting in significantly higher median property prices. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Eric Pascoe
Eric Pascoe (born 8 October 1953) is a former Australian rules footballer who played with Carlton in the Victorian Football League (VFL) during the 1970s. The ruckman from Bendigo was an understudy to John Nicholls and Peter Jones at Carlton and made his early VFL appearances when one of them was injured. He was Carlton's reserves 'Best and Fairest' winner in 1973. Nicholls retired in 1974 but by then ruckman Mike Fitzpatrick had been recruited from the West Australian Football League and Pascoe continued to play most of his football in the reserves. After getting a clearance, Pascoe joined Clarence in Tasmania for a two-year stint as captain-coach.''The Age'', "Grinter, Chisnall face block on coaching bids", 23 March 1977, p. 16 He won a Michelsen Medal in 1979, while playing for Bendigo Football League club Golden Square Golden Square, in Soho, the City of Westminster, London, is a mainly hardscaped garden square planted with a few mature trees and raised borders in ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Barry Armstrong
Barry Armstrong (born 22 September 1950) is a former Australian rules footballer who played with Carlton in the VFL during the 1970s. Armstrong was a versatile player, used most often as a centreman and ruck rover. Twice a premiership player with Carlton, he is a member of the Carlton Hall of Fame. External links * {{DEFAULTSORT:Armstrong, Barry 1950 births Living people Australian rules footballers from Victoria (Australia) Carlton Football Club players Carlton Football Club Premiership players Two-time VFL/AFL Premiership players ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bruce Doull
Alexander Bruce Doull (born 11 September 1950) is a former Australian rules footballer who played for the Carlton Football Club in the Victorian Football League (VFL). Wearing guernsey number 11, he was nicknamed the "Flying Doormat" due to the matted appearance of the constantly disarranged long portions of his extreme " combover" hairstyle. He was recruited from Jacana at the age of 19 as a half-back flanker. Doull was a safe mark, a dependable kick, and a footballer who rarely made a mistake. Doull, shy and extremely reserved, did not give interviews; instead, he always preferred to stay in the background. He won Carlton's Best & Fairest in 1974, 1977, 1980, and 1984; played in four Carlton premiership sides: 1972, 1979, 1981, and 1982; won the Norm Smith Medal in 1981; and also played in the losing Grand Finals of 1973 and 1986. Doull was also a regular State of Origin representative. In 2009, ''The Australian'' nominated Doull as one of the 25 greatest footballers never to ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Adrian Gallagher
Adrian Lindsay Gallagher (born 12 May 1946) is a former Australian rules footballer in the Victorian Football League. Cricket He was also an outstanding cricketer in his youth and received many offers to play in England, but preferred to stay in Melbourne over the Australian winter and play football for Carlton. Football Widely known as "Gags", he also went by the nickname "Golly" before he started to lose his mop of curly hair. Carlton (under 19s) Best and fairest player for the Carlton Under 19 team in 1963, he kicked one goal in the team's Grand Final win against the Essendon Under 19s, at Maddingley Park, in Bacchus Marsh, on 12 October 1963. Carlton (First XVIII) Gallagher made his debut for the Carlton First XVIII on 23 May 1964 (round 6), against St Kilda at the Junction Oval. He was a tenacious, courageous left-footer, renowned for fearlessly burrowing into dense packs and coming out with the ball. Footscray Under the short-lived VFL's "10-year rule 1 (one, u ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Trevor Keogh
Trevor Keogh (born 26 July 1949) is a former Australian rules footballer who played for Carlton in the Victorian Football League. Keogh was recruited from Sandhurst in the Bendigo Football League The Bendigo Football Netball League (previously known as the Sandhurst Football Association, Bendigo and District Football Association, Bendigo Football Association and Bendigo Football League) is an Australian rules football and netball compe ... and made his debut for Carlton in 1970. A rover, he has been described as "instrumental" in Carlton's premiership wins of 1972 and 1979. He won the club's Best and Fairest award in 1976 and 1978, also representing Victoria in the interstate competition in the same years. He averaged almost a goal a game in his long career, and was a member of Carlton's famous so-called "mosquito fleet" of small players who played a key role in Carlton's two premiership wins from 1972 to 1979. Keogh retired from senior football in 1981, later coaching ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Andrew Lukas
Andrew Lukas (born Andrew Lukimitis; 19 July 1950) is a former Australian rules footballer who played for Carlton and Fitzroy Fitzroy or FitzRoy may refer to: People As a given name *Several members of the Somerset family (Dukes of Beaufort) have this as a middle-name: **FitzRoy Somerset, 1st Baron Raglan (1788–1855) ** Henry Charles FitzRoy Somerset, 8th Duke of Beau ... in the VFL during the early 1970s. Lukas played his first season under his birth surname Lukimitis before shortening it to Lukas by deed poll in 1971. The son of Latvian parents, Lukas was recruited from Fawkner and made his way into the seniors at Carlton in 1970 after playing for their Under-19s. He was used mostly as a defender and came off the bench in the 1972 Grand Final win over Richmond. In 1973 Lukas crossed to Fitzroy where he spent three seasons before retiring from the league and finishing his career at Dandenong. References *Blueseum Biography: Andrew Lukas*Holmesby, Russell and Main, Jim ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Garry Crane
Garry Crane (born 25 August 1944) is a former Australian rules footballer in the Victorian Football League. Crane was recruited to Carlton Football Club from Yallourn North Football Club after winning the club's best and fairest award in 1962 and 1963. He made his debut for Carlton in Round 17, 1964 and played in three VFL premiership teams – 1968, 1970 and 1972 Within the context of Coordinated Universal Time (UTC) it was the longest year ever, as two leap seconds were added during this 366-day year, an event which has not since been repeated. (If its start and end are defined using mean solar tim .... He was rated the best player on the ground by the voting panel oThe Age newspaper in the 1968 Grand Final. Crane won Carlton's best and fairest award in 1969. He retired at the end of the 1976 season. References External links Garry Craneat Blueseum 1968 VFL Grand Final match reviewat Bluesum * * 1944 births Carlton Football Club players Carlton Footba ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Syd Jackson (footballer, Born 1944)
Syd Jackson (born 1 July 1944) is a former Australian rules footballer who played with the Carlton Blues during the 1970s. He usually played in the centre or half forward flank. An Indigenous Australian, Jackson was a Stolen Generations child and was adopted by Ern Manea. He started his professional footballing career at East Perth in 1963. He was equal first in that year's Sandover Medal count although he was ineligible due to suspension and in 1966 he was named East Perth's best and fairest. Jackson made his debut with Carlton in 1969 after being recruited by Ron Barassi Ronald Dale Barassi Jr. (born 27 February 1936) is a former Australian rules footballer, coach and media personality. Regarded as one of the most important figures in the history of the game, Barassi was the first player to be inaugurated into .... He won premierships in the Blues in 1970 and 1972. His jumper number was 5. He was exonerated by the tribunal after striking Lee Adamson, with the tribuna ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kevin Hall (footballer)
Kevin Hall (born 21 May 1944) is a former Australian rules footballer who played for Carlton in the VFL. Making his debut in 1963, Hall played mostly as a defender and was at a half back flank in Carlton's 1968 premiership side. He was a premiership player with Carlton again in 1970 and 1972, playing as a fullback and ruck-rover respectively. His last game in the VFL was in the 1973 Grand Final which they lost to Richmond and five years later he was appointed to Carlton's match committee, later joining the Board of Directors. References External links * *Blueseum profile 1944 births Australian rules footballers from Victoria (state) Carlton Football Club players Carlton Football Club Premiership players West Preston Football Club players Living people VFL/AFL Premiership players {{AFL-bio-1940s-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1970 VFL Grand Final
The 1970 VFL Grand Final was an Australian rules football game contested between the Carlton Football Club and Collingwood Football Club, held at the Melbourne Cricket Ground (MCG) on 26 September 1970. It was the 73rd annual Grand Final of the Victorian Football League, staged to determine the premiers for the 1970 VFL season. The match was won by Carlton by a margin of 10 points, marking that club's 10th premiership victory. This game is widely considered to be one of the greatest Grand Finals of all time and, according to one of the key protagonists Ted Hopkins, heralded "the birth of modern football". The attendance figure of 121,696 spectators broke the grand final record set the previous year of 119,165 spectators, and set an all-time attendance record for any football code in Australia that still stands. Prologue Collingwood finished 1970 on top of the ladder with 18 wins. Carlton was next with 16 wins, followed by St Kilda and South Melbourne (14 wins each). South ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
