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Bacchus Marsh Football Club
Bacchus Marsh Football and Netball Club is an Australian rules football and netball club, located in Bacchus Marsh in Victoria (Australia), Victoria, Australia. The club's various football and netball teams compete in the Ballarat Football League, which is part of the Victorian Country Football League. The home ground of Bacchus Marsh is Maddingley Park, located to the south of Bacchus Marsh. History ;Bacchus Marsh FC (1881 to 1978) There was an attempt to form an Australian Rules Football club in Bacchus Marsh in May 1874, but this was delayed until "a greater interest was displayed". The Bacchus Marsh FC was originally formed April 1881. In May 1891, Mr. T. Cain was elected as the President. It appears the club wore red and blue horizontal stripe football jumpers from the early 1900s to the early 1920s. In 1923, Bacchus Marsh colours were branded as the "Two Blues". The club initially joined in official competition football in 1911 and then played in the Ballarat Footbal ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
Ballarat Football League
The Ballarat Football League (BFL) is an Australian rules football competition that operates in the Ballarat region of Victoria (state), Victoria. The competition formed in 1893 as the Ballarat Football Association and was renamed Ballarat Football League in 1908 and was briefly known as the Ballarat-Wimmera Football League between 1934 and 1936. History In 1880, a Ballarat and Western Districts Football Association was formed, but it appears no teams were entered or a draw was made up. Between 1883 and 1892, there was an unofficial Ballarat / Western Districts football competition, with local Ballarat papers recording a list of premierships teams during this period. The Ballarat Football Association (BFA) was established in 1893 with three member clubs: Ballarat Football Club, Ballarat, South Ballarat Football Club, South Ballarat, and Ballarat Imperial Football Club, Ballarat Imperial. The latter was the dominant club in the BFA, winning the first premiership in 1893 a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
Liam Duggan
Liam James Duggan (born 11 December 1996) is a professional Australian rules footballer who plays for and co-captains the West Coast Eagles in the Australian Football League (AFL). He also hosts the ''4WD Podcast'' with YouTuber Ronny Dahl. Duggan played for Ballarat's St Patrick's College in the BAS school competition, the Western Jets at TAC Cup and Vic Metro in the National U18s. In 2014 the AIS-AFL Academy awarded him with the Ben Mitchell Medal. Duggan was drafted with pick 11 of the 2014 National Draft. He debuted against in round 2 of the 2015 season. Duggan had a standout game in the 53 point victory over St Kilda Football Club in round 8, 2015. He racked up 23 disposals including six marks and four tackles, which impressed his older teammates, notably Luke Shuey. Duggan suffered a season ending knee injury during a round 17 Western Australian Football League game playing for East Perth Football Club after copping a knock to his posterior cruciate ligament in his righ ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
Tony Lockett
Anthony Howard Lockett (born 9 March 1966) is a former Australian rules footballer who played for the St Kilda Football Club and Sydney Swans in the Australian Football League (AFL). Nicknamed "Plugger", he played as a full forward, full-forward and holds the VFL/AFL record for career goals, scoring 1,360 goals in total. Inducted into the Australian Football Hall of Fame in 2006 and upgraded to Australian Football Hall of Fame#Legends, Legend status in 2015, he is the List of VFL/AFL players to have kicked 500 goals, most prolific goalkicker in VFL/AFL history, breaking Gordon Coventry's 62-year record in 1999 AFL season, 1999 with his 1300th goal and eventually finishing with 1,360 goals from 281 games. He became the first full-forward to be awarded the Brownlow Medal (achieved in 1987 VFL season, 1987), won the Coleman Medal four times, and kicked more than 100 goals in a season on six occasions (an AFL record he shares with Jason Dunstall of Hawthorn). While Lockett's accomp ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
Wally Russell
Wally Russell (25 March 1923 – 4 March 1981) was recruited from Bacchus Marsh where he played in the club's 1940 Bacchus Marsh & Melton Football Association premiership and also won the Association's best and fairest award, the Cyril C Jones Medal. Russell was a former Australian rules footballer who played with Richmond and Geelong in the Victorian Football League (VFL). Russell was a member of 1946 Richmond Reserves premiership team. Upon leaving Geelong, Russell was the St. Kilda Reserves Captain-Coach in 1950, playing 18 games, then went to BlackRock as Captain-Coach in 1951–52, then onto Carrum as Captain-Coach from 1953 to 1962, winning a premiership in 1959, winning the club Best & Fairest in 1958 and he also won a league Best & Fairest award too. Russell was captain-coach of Beechworth Seniors in the Ovens & King Football League The Ovens & King Football Netball League (OKFNL) is an Australian rules football and netball competition based in north-east ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
Ron Durham
Ronald James Durham (11 June 1921 – 25 June 1961) was an Australian rules footballer who was recruited from Bacchus Marsh after winning the 1939 and 1941 Bacchus Marsh & Melton Football Association best and fairest award, the C C Jones Medal. Durham was also runner up in the 1938 and 1940 Bacchus Marsh & Melton Football Association best and fairest award, the C C Jones Medal too. Durham played in the VFL in between 1943 and 1944 and then from 1946 to 1948 for the Richmond Football Club. He played at full back in Richmond's 1943 VFL premiership and also won the club's best and fairest in 1943 (in his first year in the VFL) He missed the 1944 VFL finals series through injury, but did play in the 1947 VFL finals series. Durham did not play VFL football between Rd.7, 1944 to Rd.6, 1946 due to constant injuries. His career was eventually cut short in 1949 by a serious knee injury. Death Ron Durham died while using an electric drill to install a heating plant in a greenhous ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
Bacchus Marsh & Melton Football Association
In ancient Greek religion and Greek mythology, myth, Dionysus (; ) is the god of wine-making, orchards and fruit, vegetation, fertility, festivity, insanity, ritual madness, religious ecstasy, and theatre. He was also known as Bacchus ( or ; ) by the Greeks (a name later adopted by the Ancient Rome, Romans) for a frenzy he is said to induce called ''baccheia''. His wine, music, and ecstatic dance were considered to free his followers from self-conscious fear and care, and subvert the oppressive restraints of the powerful. His ''thyrsus'', a fennel-stem sceptre, sometimes wound with ivy and dripping with honey, is both a beneficent wand and a weapon used to destroy those who oppose his Cult of Dionysus, cult and the freedoms he represents. Those who partake of his mysteries are believed to become possessed and empowered by the god himself. His origins are uncertain, and his cults took many forms; some are described by ancient sources as Thrace, Thracian, others as Greek. In O ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
