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Mines Rovers Football Club
Mines Rovers Football Club is an Australian rules football team playing in the Goldfields Football League, a league based in the Goldfields region of Western Australia. Founded in 1898 as Mines Football Club, the club has enjoyed a long-standing involvement in the league. One of the first clubs to play Australian football formed within the region, and helped popularise the sport, and supplant Rugby in popularity. The GFL was known as the Goldfields Football Association (GFA) from 1901 to 1907 and 1920–25, and as the Goldfields National Football League (GNFL) from 1926 to 1987. Mines Rovers play home games at Digger Daws Oval, one they are co tenants with other GFL member, Boulder City Football Club. Mines Rovers currently hold the record for most premierships in the GFL with 43. History The club was formed on Thursday 30 March 1898 during a meeting held at Powell's Hotel in Kalgoorlie. The club was originally simply known as 'Mines' and wore the colours of black and whit ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Goldfields Football League
The Goldfields Football League is an Australian rules football league based in the Goldfields-Esperance, Goldfields region of Western Australia. Founded in 1896 as Hannans District Football Association, the league enjoyed a seat and full voting rights on the Australian National Football Council until 1919. The first clubs to play Australian football were formed within the region, and the league helped popularise the sport in the region, helping to establish the sport and supplant Rugby football, Rugby in popularity. The GFL was known as the Goldfields Football Association (GFA) from 1901–07 and 1920–25, and as the Goldfields National Football League (GNFL) from 1926–87. The league currently has two teams based in Kalgoorlie, two teams based in Boulder, Western Australia, Boulder, and one in Kambalda, Western Australia, Kambalda. History The league was formed during a meeting held in the Great Boulder Hotel, Kalgoorlie, on 29 July 1896 as the Hannans District Football A ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Fred Hiskins
John Frederick Hiskins (8 August 1878 – 25 November 1946) was an Australian rules footballer who played for Essendon in the Victorian Football League (VFL) during the early 1900s. Hiskins came from a family of 16 and hailed from Lake Moodermere near Wahgunyah, Victoria. Hiskins played in Excelsior's 1900 Ovens & Murray Football League premiership prior to making his VFL debut in round 15, 1900 against South Melbourne. Hiskins was a half forward and topped the league's goalkicking in the 1901 VFL season with 34 goals, finishing the year in Essendon's premiership side. He would have kicked more that year had it not been for an inaccurate game against South Melbourne which saw him kick two goals and ten behinds. Hiskins regularly used the place kick to shoot at goal and represented Victoria against South Australia in Adelaide in 1902. After three years in Western Australia he returned to Essendon in 1906 and played one final season. Hiskins managed to squeeze in a game for ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tom Outridge, Sr
Tom or TOM may refer to: * Tom (given name), including a list of people and fictional characters with the name. Arts and entertainment Film and television * ''Tom'' (1973 film), or ''The Bad Bunch'', a blaxploitation film * ''Tom'' (2002 film), a documentary film * ''Tom'' (American TV series), 1994 * ''Tom'' (Spanish TV series), 2003 Music * ''Tom'', a 1970 album by Tom Jones * Tom drum, a musical drum with no snares * Tom (Ethiopian instrument), a plucked lamellophone thumb piano * Tune-o-matic, a guitar bridge design Places * Tom, Oklahoma, US * Tom (Amur Oblast), a river in Russia * Tom (river), in Russia, a right tributary of the Ob Science and technology * A male cat * A male wild turkey * Tom (pattern matching language), a programming language * TOM (psychedelic), a hallucinogen * Text Object Model, a Microsoft Windows programming interface * Theory of mind (ToM), in psychology * Translocase of the outer membrane, a complex of proteins Transportation * ''Tom'' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Collingwood Football Club
The Collingwood Football Club, nicknamed the Magpies or colloquially the Pies, is a professional Australian rules football club based in Melbourne, Victoria that competes in the Australian Football League (AFL), the sport's elite competition. Founded in 1892 in the Melbourne suburb of Collingwood, Victoria, Collingwood, the club played in the Victorian Football League, Victorian Football Association (VFA) before joining seven other teams in 1896 to form the breakaway Australian Football League#VFL era (1897–1989), Victorian Football League (VFL), known today as the Australian Football League (AFL). Originally based at Victoria Park, Melbourne, Victoria Park, Collingwood now plays home games at the Melbourne Cricket Ground and has its headquarters and training facilities at Olympic Park Oval and the Melbourne Sports and Entertainment Centre, AIA Centre. Collingwood has played in a record 45 AFL Grand Final, VFL/AFL Grand Finals (including rematches), winning 16 (tied with and ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bill Cooke (footballer)
William Henry Hercules Cooke (14 February 1883 – 14 February 1956) was an Australian rules footballer who played with Collingwood in the Victorian Football League (VFL). Family The son of William James Cooke (1861-1910), and Ellen Cooke (1863-1958), née Rosser, William Henry Hercules Cooke was born at Moonta, South Australia on 14 February 1883. He married Ada Poulter (1886-1925) in 1905. Football Recruited from the Mines Rovers Football Club, in the Western Australian Goldfields Football League, he played in one game (1 goal) for Collingwood in the VFL, against Essendon, at the East Melbourne Cricket Ground, on 29 June 1912. Boxing He was also a boxer. Death He died, on his 73rd birthday, at Heidelberg, Victoria Heidelberg () is a suburb of Melbourne, Victoria, Australia, northeast of Melbourne's central business district, located within the City of Banyule local government area. Heidelberg recorded a population of 7,360 at the 2021 census. Once a ..., o ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
West Australian Football Hall Of Fame
The West Australian Football Hall of Fame was created in 2002 to recognise significant contributors to Australian rules football in Western Australia. Candidates are players, coaches, umpires, administrators and media representatives. The inductees are chosen under guidelines established by the West Australian Football Commission, and a Hall of Fame Selection Committee established in 2003. The first induction into the Hall of Fame took place on 21 March 2004. 2004 81 inductees: * Ron Alexander * Malcolm Atwell * Ken Bagley * Bill Bateman (cricketer), Bill Bateman * Reg Brentnall * Mal Brown * Dick Buchanan (Media) * Gary Buckenara * Haydn Bunton, Jr. * Haydn Bunton, Sr. * Fred Buttsworth * Arnold Byfield, Bud Byfield (Administrator) * Barry Cable rescinded * Bonny Campbell, Hugh 'Bonny' Campbell * Ross Capes (Umpire) * Derek Chadwick * Geoff Christian (Media) * David Christy * Jack Clarke (Australian footballer, born 1931), Jack Clarke * Ivo Crapp, Henry "Ivo" Crapp (Umpire) * ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Australian Football Hall Of Fame
The Australian Football Hall of Fame was established in 1996, the 1996 AFL season, centenary year of the Australian Football League, to help recognise the contributions made to the sport of Australian rules football by players, umpires, media personalities, coaches and administrators. The initial intake included 136 inductees, with twelve awarded Legend status. As of 2025, this figure has grown to more than 300, including 33 Legends. South Australian goal kicking star Ken Farmer became the most recent inductee to be elevated to Legend status in 2025. Since 2015, anyone involved in the game from its inception in 1858 until at least five years after their retirement are theoretically eligible; however, as of 2024, very few outside the elite leagues—the Victorian/Australian Football League (VFL/AFL), the West Australian Football League (WAFL), the South Australian National Football League (SANFL), the Challenge Cup (Australian rules football), Challenge Cup of 1870–1876, the Sou ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
William "Nipper" Truscott
William John "Nipper" Truscott Jr. (9 October 1886 in Lithgow, New South Wales – 20 June 1966 in East Fremantle, Western Australia) was an Australian sportsman. He played over 300 games of Australian rules football for Mines Rovers in the Goldfields Football League (GFL) and in the West Australian Football League, and represented Western Australia at football, cricket and lawn bowls. He was inducted into the Sport Australia Hall of Fame in 1985 and the Australian Football Hall of Fame in 1996. Early life Born to Susannah (née Strickland) and William John Truscott in Lithgow, Truscott grew up in Sydney where he played rugby football. He moved with his family to Kalgoorlie on the Western Australian Goldfields at the age of 14, and began playing for the Trafalgar Football Club's junior side. Football career Truscott was a durable rover (175 cm, 66 kg), who played to age 41. Lithgow born Truscott was a doyen of West Australian football, and an all round sportsm ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Port Adelaide Football Club
Port Adelaide Football Club is a professional Australian rules football club based in Alberton, South Australia, Alberton, South Australia. The club's senior men's team plays in the Australian Football League (AFL), where it is nicknamed the Power, while its reserves men's team competes in the South Australian National Football League (SANFL), where it is nicknamed the Magpies. Since its founding, the club has won an unequalled 36 SANFL premierships and four Championship of Australia titles, in addition to an 2004 AFL Grand Final, AFL Premiership in 2004. It has fielded a Port Adelaide Football Club (AFL Women's), women's team in the AFL Women's (AFLW) competition since 2022 (S7). Founded in 1870, Port Adelaide is the oldest professional football club in South Australia and was a founding member of the South Australian Football Association, later renamed the SANFL. Port Adelaide has repeatedly asserted itself as a dominant force within South Australian football, going undefea ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Woollard
John "Jack" Woollard (18 May 1880 – 18 July 1965) was an Australian rules footballer who played at eight clubs across the South Australian Football League, West Australian Football League and Goldfields Football League. Early football John Woollard played his junior years at the Brighton Football Club in Adelaide. Senior football career (1898–1910) West Adelaide (1898–1900) Sturt (1901) John Woollard made his debut with Sturt at the same time as the club made its debut in the SAFA. West Torrens (1902) West Perth (1903) Mines Rovers (1904) During his year at Mines Rovers would lose the Gold Fields premiership to Railways by 3 points. Kalgoorlie City (1905) In reviewing a game between Kalgoorlie and Boulder the Kalgoorlie Miner said that "The Boulder had no man in their team to compare in point, of brilliance with Woollard". East Perth (1906) John Woollard was the first captain of East Perth when it was promoted to the WAFL in 1906. Sturt (1907) ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hugh Gavin
Lodovic Hugh Gavin (25 October 1878 – 13 November 1940) was an Australian rules footballer who played 108 games for the Essendon Football Club in the years following the formation of the Australian Football League, Victorian Football League (VFL). Family The son of William James Gavin (1830-1915), and Jane Gavin (1834-1908), née Caldwell, Lodovic Hugh Gavin, known to his family as "Hughie", was born at Stawell, Victoria on 25 October 1878. He married Rose Margaret Spears (1878-1944), in Perth, on 5 June 1907. The had one child: Frank Hugh Gavin (1908-1969). Football ::"Hughie Gavin, erstwhile champion of Essendon ... is regarded as one of the greatest half-backs Victoria has produced and many good judges place him first. His exhibition in the 1900 Victorian [semi-]final (Essendon v. Melbourne) has never been forgotten. Of the match a leading critic said: "It was a pity, remembering Gavin's display at half-back, that Essendon failed; it would, however, have been a football ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
List Of Essendon Football Club Leading Goalkickers
The following list details all of the major goalkicking records relating specifically to Essendon Football Club, including season highs, career highs, and game highs for both the Australian Football League (formerly the Victorian Football League) and AFL Women's, as well as the club's pre-VFL/AFL records. The AFL's annual leading goalkicker award, the Coleman Medal, is named after Essendon's John Coleman (Australian footballer), John Coleman. At the 2009 Crichton Medal, Essendon Best & Fairest awards night, outgoing CEO Peter Jackson (Australian businessman), Peter Jackson announced that the Essendon leading goalkicker medal would be named the Matthew Lloyd Medal in honour of the recently retired Matthew Lloyd. This is sometimes referred to as the Matthew Lloyd Leading Goalkicker Award. Leading goalkickers by season The following is a list of Essendon leading goalkickers in each season. Pre-VFA era VFA era VFL/AFL era Multiple leading goalkickers Leading care ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
