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Fred Moore (Australian Footballer)
Frederick John Moore (25 June 1890 – 7 October 1971) was an Australian rules football player at the Fitzroy Football Club in the Victorian Football League (VFL). He became a premiership player at Fitroy, playing in the 1916 VFL Grand Final, under the captaincy of Wally Johnson, with George Holden as coach. Moore made his debut against in Round 8 of the 1916 VFL season, at the Punt Road Oval. In 1920 Moore began playing for Brunswick Football Club The Brunswick Football Club, nicknamed the Magpies, was an Australian rules football club based in the Melbourne suburb of Brunswick, Victoria, Brunswick. Brunswick played in the Victorian Football League, Victorian Football Association (VFA) ... in the VFA and in 1922 he played a then record fifty consecutive games for the club. References External links * * Fred Moore's playing statisticsfrom The VFA Project 1890 births 1971 deaths Northcote Football Club players Fitzroy Football Club players Fitzroy Footba ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Williamstown, Victoria
Williamstown is a suburb in Melbourne, Victoria (state), Victoria, Australia, south-west of Melbourne's Melbourne central business district, Central Business District, located within the City of Hobsons Bay Local government areas of Victoria, local government area. Williamstown recorded a population of 14,407 at the 2021 Australian census, 2021 census. History Indigenous history Indigenous Australians occupied the area long before maritime activities shaped the modern historical development of Williamstown. The Yalukit-willam clan of the Kulin nation were the first people to call Hobsons Bay home. They roamed the thin coastal strip from Werribee to Williamstown/Hobsons Bay. The Yalukit-willam were one clan in a language group known as the Bunurong, which included six clans along the coast from the Werribee River, across the Mornington Peninsula, Western Port Bay to Wilsons Promontory. The Yalukit-willam referred to the Williamstown area as "koort-boork-boork", a term meaning ... [...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] |
VFL/AFL Premiership Players
The Australian Football League (AFL) is the pre-eminent professional sports, professional competition of Australian rules football. It was originally named the Victorian Football League (VFL) and was founded in 1896 as a breakaway competition from the Victorian Football League#Victorian Football Association, Victorian Football Association (VFA), with its 1897 VFL season, inaugural season in 1897. It changed its name to Australian Football League in 1990 after expanding its competition to other Australian states in the 1980s. The AFL publishes its ''Laws of Australian football'', which are used, with variations, by other Australian rules football organisations. The AFL competition currently consists of 18 teams spread over Australia's five mainland states, with to join the league as its 19th team in 2028. AFL premiership season matches have been played in all states and mainland territories, as well as in New Zealand and China to expand its audience. The AFL premiership season ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Australian Rules Footballers From Melbourne
Australian(s) may refer to: Australia * Australia, a country * Australians, citizens of the Commonwealth of Australia ** European Australians ** Anglo-Celtic Australians, Australians descended principally from British colonists ** Aboriginal Australians, indigenous peoples of Australia as identified and defined within Australian law * Australia (continent) ** Indigenous Australians * Australian English, the dialect of the English language spoken in Australia * Australian Aboriginal languages * ''The Australian'', a newspaper * Australiana, things of Australian origins Other uses * Australian (horse), a racehorse * Australian, British Columbia, an unincorporated community in Canada See also * The Australian (other) * Australia (other) * * * Austrian (other) Austrian may refer to: * Austrians, someone from Austria or of Austrian descent ** Someone who is considered an Austrian citizen * Austrian German dialect * Something associated with the count ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Brunswick Football Club Players
Brunswick is the historical English name for the German city of Braunschweig (Low German: ''Brunswiek'', Braunschweig dialect: ''Bronswiek''). Brunswick may also refer to: Places and other topographs Australia *Brunswick, Victoria, a suburb of Melbourne ** Brunswick railway station, Melbourne *Electoral district of Brunswick, an electoral district in Victoria * Brunswick Junction, a town near Bunbury ** Brunswick Junction railway station *Brunswick Heads, a town on the North Coast of New South Wales * Brunswick River (New South Wales) * Brunswick River (Western Australia) Canada * New Brunswick, province in the Maritimes ** Brunswick Parish, New Brunswick, in Queens County * Brunswick Mountain, North Shore Mountains, British Columbia * Brunswick House First Nation, Ontario Chile * Brunswick Peninsula Germany * County of Brunswick, historic Saxon vassal county, elevated to Duchy of Brunswick-Lüneburg in 1235 * Brunswick-Lüneburg, historic German duchy since 1235 ** Bruns ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Fitzroy Football Club Premiership Players
Fitzroy or FitzRoy may refer to: People Given name * Several members of the Somerset family (Dukes of Beaufort) have this as a middle-name: ** FitzRoy Somerset, 1st Baron Raglan (1788–1855) ** Henry Somerset, 8th Duke of Beaufort (Henry Charles FitzRoy Somerset; 1824–1899) ** Henry Somerset, 9th Duke of Beaufort (Henry Adelbert Wellington FitzRoy Somerset; 1847–1924) ** Henry Somerset, 10th Duke of Beaufort (Henry Hugh Arthur FitzRoy Somerset; 1900–1984) ** Henry Somerset, 12th Duke of Beaufort (Henry FitzRoy Somerset; born 1952), called Bunter Worcester * Lord Melody (Fitzroy Alexander; 1926–1988), a calypsonian from Trinidad * Sir Fitzroy Maclean, 1st Baronet (1911–1996), Scottish soldier, writer and politician Surname * Fitzroy (surname) Descendants of Charles II and Barbara Palmer * Anne Lennard, Countess of Sussex or Lady Anne Fitzroy (1661–1722), daughter of King Charles II of England and Barbara Palmer, 1st Duchess of Cleveland * Charles FitzRoy, 2nd Duke o ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Fitzroy Football Club Players
Fitzroy or FitzRoy may refer to: People Given name * Several members of the Somerset family (Dukes of Beaufort) have this as a middle-name: ** FitzRoy Somerset, 1st Baron Raglan (1788–1855) ** Henry Somerset, 8th Duke of Beaufort (Henry Charles FitzRoy Somerset; 1824–1899) ** Henry Somerset, 9th Duke of Beaufort (Henry Adelbert Wellington FitzRoy Somerset; 1847–1924) ** Henry Somerset, 10th Duke of Beaufort (Henry Hugh Arthur FitzRoy Somerset; 1900–1984) ** Henry Somerset, 12th Duke of Beaufort (Henry FitzRoy Somerset; born 1952), called Bunter Worcester * Lord Melody (Fitzroy Alexander; 1926–1988), a calypsonian from Trinidad * Sir Fitzroy Maclean, 1st Baronet (1911–1996), Scottish soldier, writer and politician Surname * Fitzroy (surname) Descendants of Charles II and Barbara Palmer * Anne Lennard, Countess of Sussex or Lady Anne Fitzroy (1661–1722), daughter of King Charles II of England and Barbara Palmer, 1st Duchess of Cleveland * Charles FitzRoy, 2nd Duk ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Northcote Football Club Players
Northcote may refer to: People with the surname * Geoffry Northcote (1881–1948), British colonial administrator * Hannah Northcote (c.1761–1831), English silversmith * Henry Northcote (other) * James Northcote (1746–1831), English painter * James Northcote (actor) (born 1987), English actor * James Spencer Northcote (1821–1907), English priest and writer * Percy Northcote (1866–1934), English cricketer * Stafford Northcote, 1st Earl of Iddesleigh (1818–1887), British politician * Stafford Harry Northcote, Viscount Saint Cyres (1869–1926), diplomat and historian * Walter Northcote, 2nd Earl of Iddesleigh (1845–1927) * William Northcote, British naval surgeon Places * Northcote, Langho, a hotel and restaurant in Lancashire, England * Northcote, Auckland, a suburb of Auckland, New Zealand **Northcote Tigers, a rugby league club * Northcote, Christchurch, a suburb of Christchurch, New Zealand * Northcote, Victoria, a suburb of Melbourne, Australia **Nor ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1971 Deaths
* The year 1971 had three partial solar eclipses (Solar eclipse of February 25, 1971, February 25, Solar eclipse of July 22, 1971, July 22 and Solar eclipse of August 20, 1971, August 20) and two total lunar eclipses (February 1971 lunar eclipse, February 10, and August 1971 lunar eclipse, August 6). The world population increased by 2.1% this year, the highest increase in history. Events January * January 2 – 1971 Ibrox disaster: During a crush, 66 people are killed and over 200 injured in Glasgow, Scotland. * January 5 – The first ever One Day International cricket match is played between Australia and England at the Melbourne Cricket Ground. * January 8 – Tupamaros kidnap Geoffrey Jackson, British ambassador to Uruguay, in Montevideo, keeping him captive until September. * January 9 – Uruguayan president Jorge Pacheco Areco demands emergency powers for 90 days due to kidnappings, and receives them the next day. * January 12 – The landmark United States televis ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1890 Births
Events January * January 1 – The Kingdom of Italy establishes Eritrea as its colony in the Horn of Africa. * January 2 – Alice Sanger becomes the first female staffer in the White House. * January 11 – 1890 British Ultimatum: The United Kingdom demands Portugal withdraw its forces from the land between the Portuguese colonies of Portuguese Mozambique, Mozambique and Portuguese Angola, Angola (most of present-day Zimbabwe and Zambia). * January 15 – Ballet ''The Sleeping Beauty (ballet), The Sleeping Beauty'', with music by Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky, Tchaikovsky, is premiered at the Mariinsky Theatre, Imperial Mariinsky Theatre in Saint Petersburg, St. Petersburg, Russia. * January 25 ** The United Mine Workers of America is founded. ** American journalist Nellie Bly completes her round-the-world journey in 72 days. February * February 5 – The worldwide insurance and financial service brand Allianz is founded in Berlin, Germany. * February 18 – The National Americ ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Brunswick Football Club
The Brunswick Football Club, nicknamed the Magpies, was an Australian rules football club based in the Melbourne suburb of Brunswick, Victoria, Brunswick. Brunswick played in the Victorian Football League, Victorian Football Association (VFA) from 1897 until 1991, when it withdrew midway early in the season and folded shortly after. In its final two seasons in the VFA, the club was known as Brunswick-Broadmeadows. History Brunswick Football Club was formed in 1865 and joined the VFA in the 1897 season. The club was colloquially known in its early days as the ''Pottery Workers'' or the ''Brickfielders'', and its fans were known for sounding clayhole bells at matches; after changing their colours from light blue and red colors to black and white, they became informally, and then later formally, known as the Magpies. They struggled to be competitive in the league early on, finishing last in 1898, 1899 and 1902. They won the first of their three 1st division premierships in 19 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Frankston, Victoria
Frankston ( ) is a suburb in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia. Located south-east of the Melbourne central business district via the Monash Freeway and EastLink, it is in the Local government areas of Victoria, local government area of the City of Frankston and serves as its administrative centre, administrative and activity centres. Positioned on the eastern shoreline of Port Phillip, Frankston became a popular seaside resort, seaside destination of Melbourne in the 1880s. Its beach continues to be one of the most frequented in Victoria, and is recognised as one of the cleanest in Australia. Due to its proximity to the north of the Mornington Peninsula (wine), eponymous wine and tourism region, the suburb is also referred to as the "gateway to the Mornington Peninsula". The First Nations Australian traditional custodianship, traditional custodians of the lands on which Frankston is situated are the Boonwurrung people of the Kulin nation, to which it was an important source of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
