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Arthur Cleghorn
Arthur Cleghorn (1 December 1873 – 27 May 1951) was an Australian rules footballer who played for the Essendon Football Club in the Victorian Football League (VFL). Family The son of the tailor and outfitter James Cleghorn (1826-1886), and Ann McPherson Cleghorn, née McGregor (1847-1928), Arthur Cleghorn was born at Richmond, Victoria on 1 December 1873. Football Essendon (VFL) Playing as a rover, and making his debut, he was one of the 20 who played for Essendon in its first VFL match against Geelong, at Corio Oval, on 8 May 1897: Jim Anderson, Edward "Son" Barry, Arthur Cleghorn, Tod Collins, Jim Darcy, Charlie Forbes, Johnny Graham, Joe Groves, George Hastings, Ted Kinnear, George Martin, Bob McCormick, Pat O'Loughlin, Gus Officer, Ned Officer, Bert Salkeld, George Stuckey, George Vautin, Norman Waugh, and Harry Wright. In the first year of the VFL competition, 1897, he became one of the club's and the VFL's first premiership players. He topped the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Richmond, Victoria
Richmond is an inner-city suburb in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia, east of the Melbourne central business district, located within the City of Yarra Local government areas of Victoria, local government area. Richmond recorded a population of 28,587 at the 2021 Australian census, 2021 census, with a median age of 34. Alfred William Howitt, Alfred Howitt recorded the Kulin nation, Kulin/Woiwurrung name for Richmond as Quo-yung with the possible meaning of 'dead trees'. Three of the 82 designated major activity centres identified in the Melbourne 2030 Metropolitan Strategy are located in Richmond—the commercial strips of Victoria Street, Melbourne, Victoria Street, Bridge Road, Melbourne, Bridge Road and Swan Street. The suburb has been the subject of gentrification since the early 1990s and now contains a mix of converted warehouse residences, public housing high-rise flats and terrace houses from the victorian architecture, Victorian-era. The residential segment of the subu ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ted Kinnear
Edward Hore Kinnear (27 October 1874 – 3 March 1965) was an Australian rules footballer who played for the Essendon Football Club in the Victorian Football League (VFL). Family The son of George Steemson Kinnear (1825-1902), and his second wife, Susannah Hamlyn Kinnear (1840-1927), née Hore, Edward Hore Kinnear was born at Essendon, Victoria on 27 October 1874. He married Jessie Frew Connelly (1877-1944) on 18 September 1901. They had eight children: four sons, and four daughters. Football Essendon (VFA) Recruited from local club, ''Essendon District'', in 1895, Kinnear played in 35 games and scored 8 goals for Essendon in the 1895 and 1896 (pre-VFL) VFA competition. Essendon (VFL) Playing in the back-pocket, Kinnear was part of the team that played in Essendon's first VFL match against Geelong, at Corio Oval, on 8 May 1897. He was also part of the Essendon team that won the 1897 premiership -- it is significant that, because the Essendon team had won the end-of-season r ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1905 VFA Season
The 1905 VFA season was the 29th season of the Victorian Football Association (VFA), an Australian rules football competition played in the state of Victoria. The premiership was won by the Richmond Football Club The Richmond Football Club, nicknamed the Tigers or colloquially the Tiges, is a professional Australian rules football team competing in the Australian Football League (AFL). Founded in 1885 in the Melbourne suburb of Richmond, Victoria, Ric ..., after defeating minor premiers by 25 points in the challenge final on 7 October. It was Richmond's second VFA premiership. Association membership The Association membership was unchanged in 1905, but the Essendon Town Football Club changed its name to the Essendon Football Club at its annual general meeting in March, feeling entitled to do so as the only senior club playing its games in the town of Essendon at the time. As a consequence of this, there were two distinct senior Essendon Football Clubs with the same na ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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 eastern states of Australia: Victoria (Australia), Victoria, New South Wales and Queensland, including reserve team, reserves teams for the eastern state AFL clubs. It succeeded and continues the competition of the former Victorian Football Association (VFA) which began in 1877. The name of the competition was changed to the Victorian Football League in 1996. Under its VFL brand, the AFL also operates a women's football competition known as VFL Women's, which was established in 2016. The VFA was formed in 1877 and was the second-oldest Australian rules football league, replacing the loose affiliation of clubs that existed in the History of Australian rules football in Victoria (1859–1900), early years of the game. It was the top-level club c ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Richmond Football Club
The Richmond Football Club, nicknamed the Tigers or colloquially the Tiges, is a professional Australian rules football team competing in the Australian Football League (AFL). Founded in 1885 in the Melbourne suburb of Richmond, Victoria, Richmond, the club competed in the Victorian Football League, Victorian Football Association (VFA) from 1885 to 1907, winning two premierships. Richmond then joined the Victorian Football League (now known as the AFL) from the 1908 season and has since won List of VFL/AFL premiers, 13 premierships, most recently in 2020. But, as of 2025, they are the reigning List of VFL/AFL wooden spoons, wooden spoonist, after finishing last on the AFL ladder in 2024. From 1885 to 1964, Richmond's home ground was the Punt Road Oval, (formerly named Richmond Cricket Ground), which is still utilised as their headquarters, training facility and hosting AFL Women's (AFLW) and #Reserves team, reserves matches. Since the 1965 season, the Melbourne Cricket Ground ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Harry Wright (Australian Footballer)
Herbert Lovegrove Wright (13 April 1870 – 19 March 1950) was an Australian rules footballer who played for the Essendon Football Club in the Victorian Football Association (VFA) and in the Victorian Football League (VFL) following its formation in 1897. Family The son of William Wright (1828-1878), and Louisa Sarah Wright (1832-1908), née Pennell, Herbert Lovegrove Wright was born at Ballarat East, Victoria, on 13 April 1870. Football Wright was extremely agile; in 1894, "Observer", the football correspondent for ''The Argus'', noted that, among the "clever gymnasts" in the Essendon team, "Wright their forward player, can kick a boxing-glove out of a man's hand, the holder standing on a chair, and holding it higher than his own head." Essendon (VFA) Recruited from the Ballarat Imperials Football Club in the Ballarat Football Association (BFA), Wright made his debut for the Essendon Football Club in the Victorian Football Association (VFA) in 1894. He was part of the E ... [...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] |
George Vautin
George James Phillips Vautin (23 April 1869 – 9 January 1949) was an Australian sportsman who played Australian rules football for the Essendon Football Club in the Victorian Football League (VFL) and first-class cricket for both Tasmania and Victoria. Family Vautin was born in Orielton, Tasmania and died in the Mercy Hospital in East Melbourne. Football Vautin was from Tasmania and played at the City Football Club in Hobart. A rover, he represented his league in 1889 in an away series in Victoria, impressing the Essendon recruiters who signed him up for the 1892 VFA season and he was a key part of their premiership teams over the next three seasons. The VFL began in 1897 and Vautin was a member of Essendon's inaugural VFL premiership side. Cricket Vautin was also a cricketer, playing a first-class match for Tasmania in 1889/90 and another for Victoria in 1894/95. He played club cricket for East Melbourne Cricket Club and St Kilda Cricket Club during the 1890s. [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
George Stuckey
George Stuckey (6 July 1871 – 15 March 1932) was an Australian rules footballer who played with and captained the Essendon Football Club in the Victorian Football League (VFL). Football Stuckey played as both a wingman and half back during his career in the VFA and VFL and was the first captain of Essendon in the VFL; and, when Essendon won the (inaugural) VFL premiership in 1897, he also became the first VFL premiership captain. He remained captain until the end of the 1900 season and was a premiership player again in 1901. During his career, he represented Victoria at interstate football. Cricket A talented sportsman, in addition to his football career, Stuckey also played first-class cricket for Victoria. Athlete In 1897 (the year he captained Essendon to its first VFL premiership), he won the 130-yard Stawell Gift, in 12.2 seconds, off a handicap of 12 yards. Family His brother, Harry, was also a prominent cricket player for Victoria. Honours In 2010, Stuckey was ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bert Salkeld
Albert Ernest Salkeld (24 May 1876 – 26 May 1917) was an Australian rules footballer who played for the Essendon Football Club in the Victorian Football League (VFL). Family The son of Robert Salkeld (1833-1897), and Annie Salkeld (1837-1919), née Carey, Albert Ernest Salkeld was born at Clunes, Victoria on 24 May 1876. Education Educated at Christian Brothers' College, Victoria Parade, and at the medical faculty of the University of Melbourne, in 1893, to study medicine. Rather than completing his medical qualification in Melbourne, he went to Scotland, in pursuit of the conjoint medical and surgical qualification available to international medical candidates, known as the "Scottish Triple". Football Melbourne (VFA) Recruited from Melbourne University, he played in one game for Melbourne in the VFA in 1895. Essendon (VFA) Following a clearance from Melbourne, played 15 games for Essendon in the VFA in 1896. Essendon (VFL) He played for Essendon, as a follower, in the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ned Officer
Edward Albert Officer (29 March 1869 – 10 June 1927) was an Australian rules footballer who played for the Essendon Football Club in both the Victorian Football Association (VFA) and the Victorian Football League (1897–1989), Victorian Football League (VFL). In his first four seasons, he played in Essendon's successive premierships, and played in a fifth in the first year of the VFL competition under the captaincy of good friend George Stuckey. Officer made his VFL debut against in Round 1 of the season, at Corio Oval. After retiring from football, Officer moved to Perth and practiced as a physician until his death in 1927. References External links Officer, Ned; Past Player Profiles, Essendon Football Club * 1869 births 1927 deaths Essendon Football Club (VFA) players Essendon Football Club players Essendon Football Club premiership players Warrnambool Football Club players Australian rules footballer from Warrnambool VFL/AFL premiership players {{AFL-bio-18 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gus Officer
Augustus Percy "Gus" Officer (15 September 1875 – 25 February 1935) was an Australian rules footballer who played with Essendon 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). Notes External links * * 1875 births 1935 deaths Australian rules footballers from Victoria (state) Australian Rules footballers: place kick exponents Essendon Football Club players 19th-century Australian sportsmen {{AFL-bio-1870s-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
