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Fremantle Team Of Legends
The Fremantle Team of Legends was selected to recognise legends of Australian rules football in Fremantle, Western Australia. Selection criteria The main selection criteria for players selected in the team was that they must have played 100 games for either of the Fremantle-based WAFA/WAFL/WANFL clubs. The players must have also been significant figures in Australian rules football and their club(s). Selectors Choosing the team were: * John O'Connell (Claremont Football Club player) – chairman * Brian Atkinson – football historian * Tony Parentich (South Fremantle Football Club player) * Laurie Nugent (East Fremantle Football Club player) * Trevor Sprigg (East Fremantle Football Club player) * George Grljusich – football commentator Team The final selected team was announced at the Foundation Day Derby Ball on 2 June 2007. It also involved the commissioning of a jumper to commemorate the team which consisted of the colours of the two Fremantle WAFL teams. The sleevel ... [...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] |
John Todd (footballer)
John Herbert Todd (21 May 1938 – 4 June 2024) 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 Australian rules football playing field, oval field, often a modified ...er who played for the South Fremantle Football Club in the West Australian Football League, West Australian National Football League (WANFL). He also coached with success at East Fremantle Football Club, East Fremantle, South Fremantle Football Club, South Fremantle, Swan Districts, West Coast Eagles, West Coast, and Western Australia Australian rules football team, Western Australia. The only coach that comes close to John Todd in games coached is Jock McHale, who coached Collingwood Football Club, Collingwood. Mick Malthouse later broke McHale’s coaching record for games coached, but McHale still has won the most VFL/AFL premierships (8). Malthous ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tom Grljusich
Duje Tomy "Tom" Grljusich (13 August 1940 – 8 June 2024) was an Australian rules footballer who played for South Fremantle in the Western Australian National Football League and Central District in the South Australian National Football League. Three of his brothers played league football – George and Don for South Fremantle and John for East Fremantle. Playing career Taking up playing football as an 18-year-old in 1958 for Cockburn Ex Scholars, he won the best and fairest award in his first year. After receiving offers from South Fremantle and East Fremantle, he joined South Fremantle before the 1959 season. Grljusich made his league debut in round one of the 1960 season alongside his brother George. In 1965 he joined South Australian team Central District. At Central he won the club fairest and best award in 1966. He rejoined South Fremantle in 1968, playing until 1976. His 258 games for South Fremantle stood as the club's games played record for 27 years until it ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Doug Green (footballer)
Doug Green (born 28 October 1951) is a former Australian rules footballer who played for East Fremantle in the WANFL during the 1970s. He also spent a season with South Melbourne in the Victorian Football League. Green, a defender, was used mostly across half back from his East Fremantle debut in 1970. He won a Lynn Medal in 1973 as East Fremantle's 'Best and fairest' player and finished runner-up in the award on six occasions over the course of his career. Green was at centre half back in their 1974 premiership side and became club captain in 1975, replacing Graham Melrose. He played in his second premiership in 1979, with the Grand Final being his last game for East Fremantle. Despite announcing his retirement in 1979, he was lured back into action by South Melbourne whom he joined halfway through the 1980 VFL season. Green regularly represented Western Australia at interstate level with a total of 14 appearances to his name. He made his debut at the 1972 Perth Carnival ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Steve Marsh (footballer)
Stephen William Marsh (12 September 1924 – 5 March 2024) was an Australian rules footballer who represented and in the West Australian Football League, West Australian National Football League (WANFL) during the 1940s and 1950s. Marsh is regarded as one of the finest Follower (Australian rules football), rovers of his era. He was famed for his drop kicks to position. Life and career Born in Kalgoorlie, Western Australia, Marsh first played with the Kalgoorlie Railways Football Club, contributing in their 1943 premiership win. He was on leave from the Air Force at the time. He then arrived in Fremantle, Western Australia, Fremantle before the 1945 WANFL season and upon arriving at Fremantle Oval, he was invited into the South Fremantle Football Club rooms first, so chose to play for them, rather than East Fremantle Football Club, East Fremantle who also trained at the same oval. The commonly recited myth that he accidentally entered the wrong rooms is incorrect. Here he p ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Brian Peake
Brian Francis Peake OAM (born 5 December 1953) is a former Australian rules footballer who played for and in the West Australian Football League (WAFL), and in the Victorian Football League (VFL). He also played State of Origin football for Western Australia from 1978 to 1987, captaining the side in 1979, 1980, 1986 and 1987. Peake was awarded the Medal of the Order of Australia in 1990 and was inducted into the West Australian Football Hall of Fame in 2004, and into the Australian Football Hall of Fame in 2013. WAFL career The son of Laurie Peake, who played 89 games for East Fremantle, Peake was a versatile ruck-rover, half-forward flanker or centreman. Peake is of Māori heritage. He had a long and successful career with East Fremantle where he made his debut in 1972, playing in three premiership winning sides (1974, 1979 and 1985), winning a Sandover Medal in 1977 and captaining the All-Australian side in 1979 and 1986. Peake played 296 premiership games for the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Stephen Michael
Stephen Albert Michael (born 15 March 1956) is a former Australian rules footballer. More recently, Stephen is the patron of the Stephen Michael Foundation, supporting disengaged, at-risk and disadvantaged youth across Western Australia. Playing career A Noongar Aboriginal man, Michael played in the WAFL between 1975 and 1985 with the South Fremantle Football Club, playing 243 games and kicking 231 goals. He played in South's 1980 premiership side and was appointed captain in 1983. He holds the WAFL record for the most consecutive league games (217). Throughout his career, Michael resisted numerous advances by VFL clubs to move east and is often listed as one of the best players to never play in the VFL. He was a strong, high-leaping ruckman who won the Sandover Medal in 1980 and 1981. His 37 votes in 1981 (with nine best-on-ground performances and receiving votes in 15 of the 21 games played) was a record tally under the 3–2–1 voting system in place at the time. He rep ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
George Doig
George Ronald Doig (25 May 1913 – 27 November 2006) was an Australian rules footballer who played for and later coached the East Fremantle Football Club in the Western Australian National Football League (WANFL). A member of the Doig sporting family, Doig kicked 1095 goals from his 202 games playing almost exclusively as a forward, becoming East Fremantle's leading goalkicker of all-time, and leading the WANFL's goalkicking on six occasions. He kicked more than 100 goals in a season nine times, which included a haul of 152 goals in 1934 that set an elite record which was not broken until Bernie Naylor () kicked 167 goals in 1953. Doig captained the club for two seasons, from 1940 to 1941, also filling the role of coach during the first season. Doig also represented the Western Australian state side in 14 matches, kicking 62 goals. He was inducted into the Australian Football Hall of Fame in 2002, and was named as a "Legend" in the West Australian Football Hall of Fame in 200 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bernie Naylor
Bernard George Andrew Naylor (19 April 1923 – 26 September 1993) was an Australian rules footballer who was one of the most successful full-forwards in the history of the West Australian Football League. The WAFL now awards the leading goalscorer each year the Bernie Naylor Medal. Football career Naylor began his football career with Fremantle Christian Brothers College Old Boys of the Western Australian Amateur Football League, WAAFL in 1940‘Another in our series of Football Stars: Bernie Naylor’; ''Western Mail'', 6 August 1953, p. 1S and made his debut for South Fremantle Football Club, South Fremantle 1941 WANFL season, in 1941. Naylor kicked sixty goals in his debut season, including nine in the first semi-final against Claremont Football Club, Claremont, but the Second World War caused the WANFL to revert to an underage competition for three seasons. Owing to military service in Darwin Naylor did not wear the red and white again until 1946 WANFL season, 1946,Devaney, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jack Sheedy (Australian Rules Footballer)
John Cameron Sheedy (28 September 1926 – 23 February 2023) was an Australian rules footballer and coach. He played for and in the Western Australian National Football League (WANFL) and in the Victorian Football League (VFL). Sheedy is considered one of the greatest ever footballers from Western Australia, being the first player from that state to play 300 games in elite Australian rules football, and was a member of both the Australian Football Hall of Fame and the West Australian Football Halls of Fame. Overall, he played 323 senior career matches from 1944 to 1962, kicking 480 senior career goals, and also coached 272 senior career games, with a winning percentage of 65%. Playing career Early career and naval service The son of A. F. "Barney" Sheedy, a former East Fremantle player and WAFL interstate representative, Sheedy attended Richmond State School in East Fremantle and Fremantle Boys' School in Fremantle, captaining both schools' football teams. He also led the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Maurice Rioli
Maurice Joseph Rioli Sr. (1 September 1957 – 25 December 2010) was an Australian rules footballer who represented St Mary's Football Club in the Northern Territory Football League (NTFL), in the West Australian Football League (WAFL) and in the Victorian Football League. Acknowledged as one of the greatest players of his era, Rioli was one of the first Indigenous Australian footballers to have a significant impact on Victorian football, and was named in the centre for the Indigenous Team of the Century. A highly skilled and solidly built centreman with exquisite ball-handling skills and lightning reflexes, Rioli was a renowned performer on the big stage. After retiring from football, Rioli became a politician in the Northern Territory Legislative Assembly, and then worked in community services on the Tiwi Islands. Early days Northern Territory Born into the to-become famous Rioli footballing family on Melville Island off the coast of the Northern Territory, the youn ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Gerovich
John Gerovich (born John Mateo Gerecivich, 23 June 1938) is a former Australian rules footballer who played with South Fremantle in the Western Australian National Football League (WANFL - now WAFL) during the 1950s and 1960s. Playing career Gerovich was a key-position forward, best known for high-flying marks and his prolific goalkicking. One famous mark, which he took in the 1956 WANFL preliminary final over East Fremantle's Ray French, is commemorated in a statue at Fremantle Oval by local sculptor Robert Hitchcock. The statue was based on an iconic photograph of the mark, taken by ''The West Australian'' photographer Maurie Hammond and published on Wednesday, 10 October 1956. The mark is also depicted in Jamie Cooper's painting ''the Game That Made Australia'', commissioned by the AFL in 2008 to celebrate the 150th anniversary of the sport. On three occasions he was the WAFL's top goalkicker: in 1956 with 74 goals, in 1960 with 101 goals, and 1961 with 74 goals again. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
