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Bloodbath Grand Final
The 1945 VFL Grand Final was an Australian rules football game contested between the South Melbourne Football Club and Carlton Football Club, held at Princes Park in Melbourne on 29 September 1945. It was the 47th annual Grand Final of the Victorian Football League, staged to determine the premiers for the 1945 VFL season. The match, attended by 62,986 spectators, was won by Carlton by a margin of 28 points, marking that club's seventh premiership victory. The game was noted and remembered for its rough play and a number of violent incidents, out of which seven players were suspended. It has continued to be remembered as one of the roughest games in the league's history, giving rise to its nickname, the Bloodbath. Background Played only shortly after the conclusion of the second World War, the 1945 grand final was the first played in peace time since 1938. The league's normal finals venue, the Melbourne Cricket Ground, remained unavailable as it was still set up for military ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Carlton 2018 AFL
Carlton may refer to: People * Carlton (name), a list of those with the given name or surname * Carlton (singer), English soul singer Carlton McCarthy * Carlton, a pen name used by Joseph Caldwell (1773–1835), American educator, Presbyterian minister, mathematician and astronomer Places Australia * Carlton, New South Wales, a suburb of Sydney * Carlton, Tasmania, a locality in Tasmania * Carlton, Victoria, a suburb of Melbourne Canada * Carlton, Edmonton, Alberta, a neighbourhood * Carlton, Saskatchewan, a hamlet * Fort Carlton, a Hudson's Bay Company fur trading post built in 1810, near present-day Carlton, Saskatchewan * Carlton Trail, a historic trail near Fort Carlton * Carlton Street, Toronto, Ontario England * Carlton, Bedfordshire, a village * Carlton, Cambridgeshire, a village * Carlton, County Durham, a village and civil parish * Carlton, Leicestershire, a village * Carlton, Nottinghamshire, a suburb to the east of Nottingham ** The Carlton Academy ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ken Baxter (footballer)
Ken "Fleetwood Smith" Baxter (20 August 1917 – 27 April 1959) was an Australian rules football 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 k ...er in the Victorian Football League (VFL). Family The son of William John Baxter, and Margaret Baxter, née Nihill, Kenneth Matthew Patrick Baxter was born on 20 August 1917. His brother, Bernie Baxter also played with Carlton. He married Alice Maisie Diggins in 1944. Death He died, suddenly, on 27 April 1959. Footnotes References * World War Two Service Record: Private Kenneth Matthew Patrick Baxter (VX110353): ''Department of Veterans' Affairs, Australia''. External links * Ken BaxteraBlueseumKen Baxter's obituary''Boyles Football Photos'': Ken Baxter. 1917 births 1959 deaths Carlton Football Club players Carlton F ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jim Mooring
James Teague Mooring (14 October 191720 October 2007) was an Australian rules footballer in the Victorian Football League (VFL). Early life Mooring, the son of James Wilfred Mooring and Ellen Adelaide Mooring, nee Teague, was originally from Piangil (near Swan Hill). Mooring was a natural sportsman. His sporting talents extended also to tennis, cricket, billiards and golf. Mooring was originally invited to train with , but the club failed to find him job so he returned to Piangil. Searching for work Mooring moved to Creswick and played with Maryborough in the Bendigo Football League. VFL career A chance encounter with then coach Brighton Diggins in Creswick, signed him to the ''Blues''. He was judged Carlton's Best First Year Player in 1940, Most Consistent Player at the club in 1941, Best and Fairest in 1942 and 2nd Best and Fairest in 1944 as well as Best Clubman in 1943. Mooring was Vice-captain in 1942 and 1943, and club leading goalkicker in 1944. Mooring was a me ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bill Williams (Australian Rules Footballer)
William Williams (13 September 1925 – 7 July 2016) was an Australian rules footballer who played with South Melbourne 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). I ... (VFL) during the late 1940s. A rover, Williams won the best and fairest award for South in 1946, 1947 and 1950. A handy goalkicker, he twice topped their season ending list for goals. He joined Williamstown as captain-coach in 1952. In 2003 he was named on the interchange bench in the club's official Team of the Century. Williams died 7 July 2016 aged 90. References External links * 1925 births Australian rules footballers from Victoria (state) Sydney Swans players Bob Skilton Medal winners Spotswood Football Club players Williamstown Football Club players ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jack "Basher" Williams
Jack E. "Basher" Williams (17 June 1917 – 16 May 2000) was an Australian rules footballer who played with South Melbourne in the Victorian Football League (VFL). When Williams arrived in Melbourne from Maryborough, he had intended to join Footscray, but had to sign with South Melbourne due to residential boundaries. During his early years at South Melbourne he was rarely available for selection, as he favoured playing with South Districts, who could offer him better money. As a result, he played just two VFL games in 1940, one in 1941 and didn't feature at all in the 1941 VFL season. By 1944 he was a regular fixture in the South Melbourne team, appearing in 15 rounds that year. The previous season he had to sit out eight games through suspension. Williams then played 21 games in 1945, most notably the "Bloodbath" Grand Final, where the centre half-back was reported three times. He was cited for "adopting a fighting attitude" and on two charges of using obscene language ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rod McLean
Roderick Findlay McLean (22 October 1915 – 14 September 1979) was an Australian rules 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 ... footballer who played with Carlton in the VFL. He is the father of Richmond and Carlton footballer Ricky McLean. A ruckman, McLean was a premiership player with Carlton in 1938 and 1945. Late in the 1942 season he was found guilty of disputing the decisions of a field umpire, abusive language and unseemly conduct during a game which resulted in a 16 games suspension. McLean served in the Australian Army for three years during World War II. References External links *Blueseum profile 1915 births Australian rules footballers from Melbourne Carlton Football Club players Carlton Football Club Premiership players 1979 deaths Two-ti ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ron Clegg
Ron "Smokey" Clegg (17 November 192723 August 1990) was an Australian rules footballer in the (then) Victorian Football League. Clegg was recruited from the South Melbourne Under 19's after winning the 1944 Melbourne Boys Football League's best and fairest award and was best on ground in the 1944 grand final for South Melbourne. Richmond were very keen to secure Clegg's signature in 1944, before he settled on South Melbourne. Clegg debuted in 1945 and from early on South Melbourne knew they had a star in the making and he played in South Melbourne's losing 1945 VFL grand final. By the time Clegg was 18 years old he had established himself as a gifted senior player in the VFL in 1946. A brilliant key position player at either centre half-forward or centre half-back, he was awarded the Brownlow Medal in 1949 while playing with the then South Melbourne Football Club and was runner up in the Brownlow in 1951. He won the club's Best and Fairest award three times, in 1948, 1949 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Vic Castles
Victor Tasman Castles (4 January 1918 – 25 May 1993) was an Australian rules footballer who played with South Melbourne in the Victorian Football League (VFL) during the 1940s. Castles, a Tasmanian, spent two seasons with Port Melbourne after arriving on the mainland. In both those years, 1940 and 1941, Port Melbourne were Victorian Football Association (VFA) premiers but Castles was only a member of the 1940 grand final winning team. Although he still turned out in the VFA, Castles was enlisted in the Australian Army in 1941, as a sapper. He was discharged at the end of the year and transferred to VFL club South Melbourne. Mostly used at half forward and as a rover, Castles was a consistent source of goals for South Melbourne, finishing runner up in their goal-kicking on four occasions. His best effort in a season came in 1945 when he kicked 38 goals and was particularly strong in the finals series. He kicked four goals in South Melbourne's 11 point semi final win over ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Reg Richards
Reginald Morris Richards (14 December 1917 – 7 September 1991) was an Australian rules footballer who played with South Melbourne in the Victorian Football League (VFL). Richards was recruited from Clifton Hill CYMS but came from the country town of Blackwood. He started his career at South Melbourne as an 18-year-old in 1936 but wasn't a regular fixture in the team until 1940. He was a rover for South Melbourne in the 1945 VFL Grand Final "bloodbath", which they lost to Carlton. After playing all 20 home and away games, he had missed the semi-final with influenza but recovered in time to be selected for the grand final, taking the place of Max Blumfield. In 1947, his final season, he missed eight games through suspension, following a fight with Fitzroy's Noel Price during their round six encounter. Price, who was also suspended for eight weeks, left Richards with a broken nose. Once his VFL career ended he moved to the country and became playing coach of the Ballarat Fo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Laurie Nash
Laurence John Nash (2 May 1910 – 24 July 1986) was a Test cricketer and Australian rules footballer. An inductee into the Australian Football Hall of Fame, Nash was a member of South Melbourne's 1933 premiership team, captained South Melbourne in 1937 and was the team's leading goal kicker in 1937 and 1945. In cricket, Nash was a fast bowler and hard hitting lower order batsman who played two Test matches for Australia, taking 10 wickets at 12.80 runs per wicket, and scoring 30 runs at a batting average of 15. The son of a leading Australian rules footballer of the early twentieth century who had also played cricket against the touring Marylebone Cricket Club in 1921, Nash was a star sportsman as a boy. Following the family's relocation from Victoria to Tasmania, he began to make a name for himself as both a footballer and a cricketer, and became both one of the earliest professional club cricketers in Australia and one of the first fully professional Australian rules footba ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Arthur Sanger
Arthur Mervyn Sanger (26 March 1918 – 3 December 1999) was an Australian rules footballer who played with Carlton in the Victorian Football League (VFL). From Daylesford, Sanger was a back pocket In the sport of Australian rules football, each of the eighteen players in a team is assigned to a particular named position on the field of play. These positions describe both the player's main role and by implication their location on the gro ... specialist, who kicked the only goal of his league career when he came on as 19th man for a match against Footscray in his second season. Carlton were VFL premiers in Sanger's first and last seasons, but he wasn't selected for either side. He was however a member of their 1945 premiership team, playing from the back pocket in the famed 'Bloodbath' Grand Final. His career ended when he suffered a badly broken arm in 1947. Sanger was appointed coach of the Carlton Under 19 team in 1951 and guided them to a Premiership in his first ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Keith Smith (Australian Footballer)
Keith Smith (31 May 1914 – 12 June 1997) was a leading Australian rules footballer of the 1930s and 40s, playing for South Melbourne in the Victorian Football League (VFL). Born in South Melbourne, Victoria, the 178 cm tall Smith was recruited by South Melbourne from Victorian Football Association (VFA) side Port Melbourne.Shaw, p. 134 Described as a pacy and skillful player, Smith made his debut in Round 12 1936, against Melbourne. It was to be his only match that year but returned in 1937 to become a regular member of the South Melbourne side for the rest of the 1930s.''rlstats'', "Keith Smith", http://afltables.com/afl/stats/players/K/Keith_Smith.html Accessed 21 January 2009 Prior to the 1945 VFL season, Smith had sought to return to Port Melbourne to finish his career but his application for a transfer was refused by South Melbourne. Smith decided to play one more season at South but there were suggestions that Smith was not pleased with the South Melbourne hierarc ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
