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1922 VFA Season
The 1922 Victorian Football Association season was the 44th season of the Australian rules football competition. The premiership was won by the Port Melbourne Football Club, after it defeated by two points on 23 September, in a controversial Grand Final which several of its players were offered money to throw. It was the club's third VFA premiership. Association membership Following the closure of the East Melbourne Cricket Ground in 1921, the Essendon (Association) Football Club left the Association, due to the Essendon (League) Football Club moving into its home ground. had disbanded midway through the 1921 season as it tried to capitalise on Essendon's (L.) move, but reformed at the end of the year, amalgamated with the Essendon (A.) club, and resumed its place in the Association, albeit missing many of its best players which had left the club when it disbanded. To replace Essendon (A.), a new senior club based in Geelong was admitted to the Association. The new club w ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Port Melbourne Football Club
The Port Melbourne Football Club, nicknamed the Borough, is an Australian rules football club based in the inner-Melbourne suburb of Port Melbourne. The club was founded in 1874 and has been competing in the Victorian Football League (VFL) – formerly known as the Victorian Football Association (VFA) – since 1886, and the VFL Women's (VFLW) since 2021. Port Melbourne is the List of VFA/VFL premiers, most successful club in the VFA/VFL, having won 17 senior men's division 1 premierships three more than its nearest rival Williamstown Football Club, Williamstown. It has also won one VFL Women's premiership. Port Melbourne is also the only VFA/VFL club never to have been relegated to the second division when the VFA had both first and second divisions. The club has maintained an independent and stand-alone status, without being in a formal Australian Football League reserves affiliations, reserves affiliation with a club from the Australian Football League (AFL) for all but fiv ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Coburg Football Club
The Coburg Football Club, nicknamed the Lions, is an Australian rules football club based in the Melbourne suburb of Coburg, Victoria, Coburg. It has been based at Coburg City Oval since 1915. Coburg's men's team currently plays in the Victorian Football League (VFL), while the women's team has competed in the VAFA Women's (VAFAW) since 2023. The club also has a team in the FIDA Football League, a competition for people with intellectual disability, intellectual disabilities, and junior teams in the Essendon District Football League (EDFL). History Early years After competing in junior competitions, Coburg was always keen to be promoted up the ranks. They joined the Melbourne District Football Association (MDFA) and were premiers in 1913, 1914 and again in 1920 (premiers and champions), their strength helped them get promoted to the AFL reserves, Victorian Football League reserves from 1921 VJFL season, 1921 until 1924 VJFL season, 1924, Coburg was admitted as a senior club in ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
List Of VFA Premiers
This page is a complete chronological listing of the premiers of the Australian rules football competition known as the Victorian Football Association until 1995 and as the Victorian Football League since 1996. The Victorian Football Association was the top Victorian competition in Australian rules football from 1877 until 1896, and has been the second-tier Victorian competition since. Each year, the premiership is awarded to the club which wins the VFL Grand Final. The Grand Final has been an annual tradition in its current format since 1933, and some form of Grand Final has been scheduled in each season since 1903 VFA season. List of premiers Premiership systems Premierships are recognised for all seasons of VFA/VFL competition. Several different methods have existed to determine the premiers: *From 1877 until 1887, the premiership was a title given to the best performing team, determined largely by press consensus. These premierships, as well as premierships between 1870 and ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Vern Banbury
Vernon Albert Banbury (21 August 1890 – 20 November 1950) was an Australian rules footballer. Playing career Banbury played three matches for St Kilda in the Victorian Football League (VFL) during the 1909 and 1910 VFL seasons. He later played for Footscray in the Victorian Football Association (VFA). Playing against Port Melbourne Port Melbourne is an inner-city suburb in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia, south-west of the Melbourne central business district, located within the Cities of City of Melbourne, Melbourne and City of Port Phillip, Port Phillip Local government ... in 1912 he kicked the ball into the goalposts seven times, which is an Australian rules football record. In 1914 Banbury was sacked by Footscray in the aftermath of the club's loss in the 1914 VFA Grand Final. After the 1922 VFA Grand Final, Banbury was accused by a number of Port Melbourne players of paying money to throw the match in Footscray's favour. Banbury subsequently received a l ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Billy Rudd (Australian Footballer)
William Thomas Rudd (born 13 December 1941) is an English former footballer who made 574 appearances in the Football League playing for Birmingham City, York City, Grimsby Town, Rochdale Rochdale ( ) is a town in Greater Manchester, England, and the administrative centre of the Metropolitan Borough of Rochdale. In the United Kingdom 2021 Census, 2021 Census, the town had a population of 111,261, compared to 223,773 for the wid ... and Bury. References {{DEFAULTSORT:Rudd, Billy 1941 births Living people Footballers from Manchester English men's footballers Men's association football midfielders Stalybridge Celtic F.C. players Birmingham City F.C. players York City F.C. players Grimsby Town F.C. players Rochdale A.F.C. players Bury F.C. players Cork Hibernians F.C. players English Football League players League of Ireland players ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
George Ogilvie (footballer)
George Colin Ogilvie - Junior (12 May 1899 – 9 February 1957) was an Australian rules footballer who played with Richmond in the 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), and for Footscray Football Club, Footscray, Port Melbourne Football Club, Port Melbourne and Yarraville Football Club, Yarraville in the Victorian Football Association (VFA). He joined Richmond from Echuca in late 1920, and played in two games – the club's round 18 match and its semi-final – to high acclaim, before his permit was revoked after it was determined that he was tied to 's zoning (Australian rules football), district and was ineligible to play for Richmond; Ogilvie had lived in Essendon's district prior to the World War I, and although he served almo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bill Walton (footballer)
William Henry Walton (3 September 1894 – 24 July 1953) was an Australian rules footballer who played with Collingwood in the Victorian Football League (VFL). Family William Henry Waghorne was born at Collingwood on 3 September 1894 to Winifred Waghorne. Winifred later married William Daniel Walton (1853-1930) and William Henry used the Walton surname during his football career. William married Eleanor May Moody (1895-1972) on 30 December 1914 at the Holy Trinity Church in Port Melbourne. They had two children together, James George Waghorne (born 1916) and Nellie Winifred Waghorne (born 1918). They subsequently divorced in 1935. Football Walton started his career at Victorian Football Association (VFA) club Port Melbourne and was their leading goal-kicker in 1914. When the VFA went into recess due to WWI, Walton agreed to captain South Melbourne District in the VJFA for 1916. Enticed to join Collingwood in 1918, Walton appeared in Grand Finals in both his seasons with C ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gus Dobrigh
Laurence Augustine "Gus" Dobrigh (11 February 1893 – 21 September 1982) was an Australian rules footballer who played with Collingwood in the Victorian Football League (VFL). A half forward flanker in Collingwood's 1917 premiership team, Dobrigh was also a three time losing Grand Finalist. He was suspended by his club in 1919 over a payment dispute, but there were incorrect rumours at the time that it was because he had been suspected of playing dead in a game. After finishing with Collingwood at the end of 1921, Dobrigh moved to Port Melbourne in the Victorian Football Association (VFA), where he captained the club to a premiership in 1922; he was again caught up in a bribery scandal, being offered and turning down a significant sum of money by former player Vern Banbury to play dead in the Grand Final. He was playing coach at Northcote in 1925, then with Preston, for the club's inaugural VFA season in 1926 In Turkey, the year technically contained only 352 days. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jack O'Brien (footballer, Born 1898)
John Daniel O'Brien (17 August 1898 – 30 May 1966) was an Australian rules footballer who played with Essendon and Footscray in the Victorian Football League (VFL). Football O'Brien began playing senior football for in the VFL in 1920, but in 1921 crossed to in the Victorian Football Association without a clearance. He played as a half-forward for Footscray for the next four seasons and was part of two premierships. In 1925, when Footscray joined the VFL, O'Brien was unable to remain with the club due to his suspension from the VFL for leaving Essendon without a clearance, and he consequently played for country and junior clubs for the three-year period of his disqualification from 1925 until 1927. O'Brien successfully sued Footscray for £70 in potential match payments that he missed in 1925 and 1926 as a result of the suspension, owing to a clause to that effect in his original agreement with Footscray which covered the eventuality of the club joining the VFL. Af ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
North Melbourne Recreation Reserve
Arden Street Oval (also known as North Melbourne Cricket Ground, North Melbourne Recreation Reserve, or Hotham Recreation Reserve) is an inner-suburban sporting facility and sports oval in North Melbourne, Victoria, Australia. It is currently the training base of the North Melbourne Football Club, an Australian rules football club. It has a long association with the club and league, which moved to the ground in and for 60 years between 1925 and the 1985 VFL season, 1985 season it was used as the team's home ground for Australian Football League, Victorian Football League (VFL) matches. History Arden St Oval was officially secured from the Hotham/North Melbourne Cricket Club from the Government who handed over the parcel of land to the Hotham Cricket Club in 1873 or 1874. The Hotham Cricket Club was the only club to use the ground until 1882, when it amalgamated with the Hotham Football Club to effect improvements to the ground. Before then, the Hotham Football Club had been ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Brighton Football Club
The Brighton Football Club, nicknamed the Penguins, was an Australian rules football club based in the Melbourne suburb of Brighton, Victoria, Brighton. The club was a founding member of the Victorian Amateur Football Association, Metropolitan Junior Football Association (MJFA) in 1892, before moving to the Victorian Football Association (VFA) in 1908. After suffering financial hardship throughout the 1950s, the club merged with South Caulfield Football Club, South Caulfield in 1962 VFA season, 1962 to become the Brighton-Caulfield Football Club, before eventually moving to the suburb of Caulfield, Victoria, Caulfield and becoming the Caulfield Football Club in 1965 VFA season, 1965. History Early years An advertisement in ''The Argus (Melbourne), The Argus'' on 8 June 1859 announced a meeting to be held on the 9th of that month, at the Devonshire Hotel, to form the Brighton Football Club. There are references to an active Brighton Park club in 1867, and Brighton Football club ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Northcote Football Club
The Northcote Football Club (/ˈnoːθ.kət/), nicknamed the Dragons, was an Australian rules football club which played in the VFA from 1908 until 1987. The club's colours for most of its time in the VFA were green and yellow, and it was based in the Melbourne suburb of Northcote. History The earliest mentions of a Northcote Football Club appear in mid 1869. The club was established as a junior club, and it initially contested the Victorian Junior Football Association. The club played its games at Croxton Park until 1903, before moving to Northcote Park in 1904. The club was successful at junior level during the 1900s, winning premierships in 1904 and 1906. The club then joined senior football in the Victorian Football Association from the VJFA in 1908, and moved its home ground back to Croxton Park in 1909. Prior to the 1912 season, Northcote and neighbouring northern suburban club Preston, who were both struggling on-field, amalgamated; the merged club was known as th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
