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Centre Line (football)
The centre line refers to a set of positions on an Australian rules football field. It consists of three players: two on the wings (left and right), and one in the centre. Wing The two wingmen control the open spaces in the middle of the ground.Pascoe, 1995, p. 30 They can vary in size, depending on team balance or opposition match-ups, but in general they need to be highly skilled, especially in kicking. Wingmen also require considerable pace and stamina, as they run up and down the ground linking play between defence and attack. The Victorian Football Association (VFA) abolished the wing role for many years, which sped up play and increased the average team score. However, this was not copied in other leagues. Notable wingmen in Australian football over the years include: * Wilfred "Chicken" Smallhorn (, 1930-1940),Pascoe, 1995, p. 31 Brownlow Medallist 1933 * Herb Matthews (, 1932-1945), Brownlow Medallist 1940 * Thorold Merrett (, 1950-1960) * Stan Alves ( and , 1965-197 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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 Australian rules football playing field, oval field, often a modified cricket ground. Points are scored by kicking the Football (ball)#Australian rules football, oval ball between the central goal posts (worth six points), or between a central and outer post (worth one point, otherwise known as a "behind"). During general play, players may position themselves anywhere on the field and use any part of their bodies to move the ball. The primary methods are kick (football), kicking, handball (Australian rules football), handballing and running with the ball. There are rules on how the ball can be handled; for example, players running with the ball must intermittently running bounce, bounce or touch it on the ground. Throwing the ball is not allowed, and players must not get caught holding the ball. A distinctiv ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Chris Mainwaring
Christopher Douglas Mainwaring (27 December 19651 October 2007) was an Australian rules footballer who played for the West Coast Eagles in the Australian Football League (AFL) and for the East Fremantle Football Club in the West Australian Football League (WAFL). Adored by young fans for his handsome appearance, Mainwaring was one of the most popular footballers of his era. At his peak, he was one of the finest wingmen in the AFL, forming a devastating midfield combination with Peter Matera in the early 1990s, but after a serious knee injury in 1997 he was never able to recapture his best form. After retiring in 1999, Mainwaring worked as a television presenter and sports journalist with the Seven Network and a radio presenter with Mix 94.5 before his death in 2007 from a drug overdose at the age of 41. Football career Mainwaring was born in the coastal Western Australian town of Geraldton, over 400 kilometres north of Perth to Hubert Mainwaring and his wife Leah (née Cripps ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ian Stewart (Australian Rules Footballer)
Ian Harlow Stewart (né Cervi; born 14 July 1943) is a former Australian rules footballer who played for the St. Kilda Football Club and Richmond Football Club in the Victorian Football League (VFL). He later coached and before returning to St. Kilda to serve as general manager. Stewart is one of only four men to win the Brownlow Medal three times (the others being Haydn Bunton Sr., Dick Reynolds, and Bob Skilton), and the only one to do so at two different clubs; he is also the most recent player to have achieved three Brownlow Medals. He was an inaugural inductee into the Australian Football Hall of Fame in 1996 and was elevated to Legend status the following year. He will always be remembered as one of the truly great exponents of Australian football, a player with the rare blend of skill, concentration and courage who formed partnerships with two of the greatest forwards the game has produced, Darrel Baldock and Royce Hart. Coincidentally, all three men hailed from T ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Denis Marshall (footballer)
Deniston Clive Marshall (born 17 October 1940) is a former Australian rules footballer who represented in the West Australian National Football League (WANFL) and in the Victorian Football League (VFL) from the 1950s to the 1970s. Family The son of George Watson Marshall, and Sylvie Marshall, née Tuxford, Deniston Clive Marshall was born at Beaconsfield, Western Australia on 17 October 1940. He married Wendy Dorothy Boulding in 1964. His grandfather, Gordon Tuxford, had captained in the 1920s. Football Western Australia Marshall was already a star while playing for the Mosman Park Juniors. Marshall made his senior debut with in 1958. Marshall won four best and fairest awards with Claremont and was runner up in the 1962 Sandover Medal award for the fairest and best player in the WANFL. Victoria Controversially recruited to Victorian side Geelong in 1964, he was eventually cleared, and was an immediate success making his debut (kicking one of Geelong's six goals) agains ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jack Clarke (Australian Footballer, Born 1933)
John Edward Clarke (14 July 1933 – 3 December 2001) was an Australian rules footballer and coach in the VFL. An Essendon and Victorian champion, Clarke was one of the premier midfielders of the VFL for well over a decade, Clarke led Essendon to the flag in 1962 as captain, and also played in the victorious 1965 side. Clarke was inducted into the Australian Football Hall of Fame in 1996, and was named as the centreman of the Essendon Team of the Century in 1997. Early life John Edward Clarke was born on 14 July 1933 in Melbourne. He was the son of Tom Clarke, the curator at the Essendon Cricket Ground (Windy Hill) and a former Essendon and Brunswick footballer; additionally, he was the older brother of the well-known distance runner Ron Clarke. Architect Clarke was a noted architect, who studied during the early stages of his VFL career. Football Clarke was a talented centreman who debuted on his eighteenth birthday in 1951 and played 263 games for the Essendon Football ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Les Foote
Leslie Roy Foote (20 August 1924 – 11 April 2006) was an Australian rules footballer in the Victorian Football League. Football career A local lad, and recruited from the North Melbourne Colts, Foote played his first match with the North Melbourne Football Club in 1941 at just 16 years of age. He was able to kick equally well with both feet, and his ability to play close to the ground meant that he was not only a brilliant ball player but was also had an outstanding ability to control the ball in packs. He was an excellent mark. He was famous for his baulking and dodging skills (skills which he claimed to have honed "by walking through the crowded city footpaths, dodging and weaving through the oncoming people") and his courageous style of play. He would torment his opponents by running straight towards them, holding the ball out to them – and, then, doing a blind turn around them, and continuing on his way. His favourite ploy was, having taken a mark, to walk back and p ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Allan La Fontaine
Allan Faulkner La Fontaine (5 December 1910 – 14 August 1999) was an Australian rules footballer who played with and coached Melbourne in the Victorian Football League (VFL). Private life La Fontaine was born at the country town of Eskdale, Victoria. While still a youngster his parents, Cyrelle and Beatrice, brought the family to Melbourne where they settled in the suburb of Footscray. He had three brothers, Claude, Lionel and Donald. La Fontaine attended St Joseph's CBC North Melbourne (later St Joseph's College, Melbourne) from 1925 to 1929 where he earned the title Captain of College three years in a row; 1927, 1928 and 1929. At school he made his mark as both an excellent athlete, handball player and footballer. In 1930 he went on to complete his secondary education at St Kevin's College, Melbourne before proceeding to university where he was eventually granted Bachelor of Science in 1946. La Fontaine enjoyed a variety of activities which included boxing, cricket and in ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Allan Hopkins
Allan Hopkins (24 May 1904 – 2 July 2001) was an Australian rules footballer in the (then) Victorian Football League. Football He started off his career with Footscray Football Club before they joined the Victorian Football League (VFL) in 1925. He had played in the club's 1923 and 1924 premiership sides in the Victorian Football Association (VFA). A brilliant centreman, he was awarded the Brownlow Medal retrospectively in 1989 for the 1930 season while playing with the Footscray Bulldogs, and won the Bulldogs' best and fairest in 1931. He went on to win the VFA premiership with Yarraville Football Club in 1935 as captain-coach A player–coach (also playing coach, captain–coach, or player–manager) is a member of a sports team who simultaneously holds both playing and coaching duties. Player–coaches may be head coaches or assistant coaches, and they may make change .... He died aged 97 in 2001. At that time he was the oldest player in the game's history, but was l ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Edward Greeves
Edward Goderich "Carji" Greeves Jr. (1 November 1903 – 15 April 1963) was an Australian rules footballer who played for the Geelong Football Club in the Victorian Football League (VFL), now known as the Australian Football League (AFL). He won the inaugural Brownlow Medal in 1924, awarded to the VFL/AFL player adjudged fairest and best during the home-and-away season. He is the son of Ted Greeves, who also played with the Geelong Football Club. Greeves is the namesake of the Carji Greeves Medal, the Geelong Football Club's best and fairest award. Family and personal life In the 1860s, Greeves' grandmother Julie (née Anderson) was briefly engaged to Tom Wills, the famed cricketer and founder of Australian rules football. Historian Col Hutchinson noted that "If Tom Wills had married Julie, we wouldn't have had Carji Greeves". Greeves was given the nickname "Carji" as a baby by a friend of the family, the New South Wales golfer Michael Scott, most likely after a character ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jock McHale
James Francis "Jock" McHale (12 December 1882 – 4 October 1953) was an Australian rules football player and coach for the Collingwood Football Club in the Victorian Football League in a marathon career that extended from 1903 to 1949. He is the most successful VFL/AFL coach of all time, having lead Collingwood to a record eight premierships. Early life The son of an Irish-born policeman, John Francis, and his wife Mary (), James Francis McHale was born in Botany, New South Wales, but moved to Melbourne with his family at age 5. He attended St Brigid's primary school in North Fitzroy and St Paul's in Coburg, then moved on to Christian Brothers' College ( Parade College) in East Melbourne and completed three years of secondary school. Having just turned 15, he left school to take a position with the McCracken Brewery. Playing career McHale joined Coburg, at the time a junior club, and came to prominence with his consistency, which led to an invitation to play at Colling ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
West Torrens Football Club
West Torrens Football Club was an Australian rules football club that competed in the South Australian National Football League (SANFL) from 1895 to 1990. In 1991, the club merged with neighbouring Woodville Football Club to form the Woodville-West Torrens Eagles. With the proposed introduction of representative Districts for clubs in the SAFA the Native Club in 1897 derived its name from Electoral district of West Torrens and based itself in the inner western suburbs of Adelaide, around the reaches of the River Torrens at Thebarton, South Australia, Thebarton and Hindmarsh, South Australia, Hindmarsh. Club history A precursor club was the West Adelaide Football Club (1878–1887) that was founded in 1878 as the West Torrens and dissolved after just one season in the SAFA after changing its name to West Adelaide and wearing colours of Red, White and Blue in 1887. Adelaide and Suburban Premiers (1893-94) The annual general meeting of the Port Natives' Football Club was held ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tom MacKenzie
Thomas David MacKenzie (4 October 188228 November 1927) was an Australian rules footballer in the (then) South Australian Football Association (SAFA)/South Australian Football League (SAFL). MacKenzie was the first man to win three Magarey Medals as the fairest and most brilliant player in the competition. He was a cool centreman who excelled under pressure. He later served in World War I World War I or the First World War (28 July 1914 – 11 November 1918), also known as the Great War, was a World war, global conflict between two coalitions: the Allies of World War I, Allies (or Entente) and the Central Powers. Fighting to ..., being wounded several times while fighting in France. In 1996 MacKenzie was inducted into the Australian Football Hall of Fame. In 2002 he was inducted into the South Australian Football Hall of Fame. References External links * West Torrens Football Club players North Adelaide Football Club players Australian Footb ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
