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Monash Blues Football Club
The Monash Blues Football Club is an Australian rules football club that represents Monash University in the Victorian Amateur Football Association (VAFA). The club was formed in 1961 as Monash University, changing its name to the Blues when the #Monash Whites, Monash Whites joined the VAFA in 1964. In 2001, the two teams merged, and the Whites now compete as the Blues' Club XVIII team. As of 2024, the club's men's team competes in the Premier C division of the VAFA, while the women's team is in the Premier Division of the VAFA Women's (VAFAW). History Monash University Football Club was formed in 1961, shortly after Monash University opened on 13 March of that year. Whilst too late to be accepted into a local competition for the 1961 season, the club played internal matches, as well as matches against teams from Newman College (University of Melbourne), Newman College, Ormond College and Victoria College, Melbourne, Burwood Teachers' College. In 1962 VAFA season, 1962, the club e ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
2024 VAFA Season
The 2024 VAFA season was the 123rd season of the Victorian Amateur Football Association (VAFA), the largest senior community Australian rules football competition in Victoria (state), Victoria. The season began on 13 April and concluded on 27 September, with 61 teams participating across six divisions under a promotion and relegation system. Association membership Following the conclusion of the 2023 VAFA season, 2023 season, Ivanhoe Football Club, Ivanhoe and Old Paradians Football Club, Old Paradians left the VAFA and transferred to the Northern Football Netball League (NFNL) for 2024. This resulted in the abolishment of 2023 VAFA season#Division 4, Division 4, which subsequently merged into #Division 3, Division 3. Additionally, because of extremely low player numbers during pre-season training, Masala Dandenong Football Club, Masala Dandenong announced in January 2024 that it would withdraw from Division 3 and instead compete in the Thirds competition. After seven years in the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Old Trinity Grammarians Football Club
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Heatherton Football Club
The Heatherton Football Netball Club is an Australian rules football and netball club located in the southern suburbs of Melbourne. The club participates in The Southern Football Netball League, based in the south and south eastern suburbs of Melbourne, Victoria. History The club was established in 1913. It was intermittently in the Federal Association before moving to the Berwick FA from 1929 to 1934 and then onto the Caulfield-Oakleigh FL. Heatherton stayed in that competition until 1941 when it disbanded for the duration of World War II. Reforming in 1946 the club was again in the Federal League. Heatherton had embraced commercialism and changed its name to Freighters Football Club for seasons 1951 and 1952, making their first grand final in 1951 only to be defeated by Mordialloc. After 1952 the club went into recess. The club re-appeared in 1974 and contested what would be the final season of the CYMS competition, and it won its first premiership defeating Elwood. From 197 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1972 VAFA Season
Year 197 ( CXCVII) was a common year starting on Saturday of the Julian calendar. At the time, it was known as the Year of the Consulship of Magius and Rufinus (or, less frequently, year 950 ''Ab urbe condita''). The denomination 197 for this year has been used since the early medieval period, when the Anno Domini calendar era became the prevalent method in Europe for naming years. Events By place Roman Empire * February 19 – Battle of Lugdunum: Emperor Septimius Severus defeats the self-proclaimed emperor Clodius Albinus at Lugdunum (modern Lyon). Albinus commits suicide; legionaries sack the town. * Septimius Severus returns to Rome and has about 30 of Albinus's supporters in the Senate executed. After his victory he declares himself the adopted son of the late Marcus Aurelius. * Septimius Severus forms new naval units, manning all the triremes in Italy with heavily armed troops for war in the East. His soldiers embark on an artificial canal between the Tigris a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1971 VAFA Season
* 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] |
1964 VAFA Season
Events January * January 1 – The Federation of Rhodesia and Nyasaland is dissolved. * January 5 – In the first meeting between leaders of the Roman Catholic and Orthodox churches since the fifteenth century, Pope Paul VI and Patriarch Athenagoras I of Constantinople meet in Jerusalem. * January 6 – A British firm, the Leyland Motor Corp., announces the sale of 450 buses to the Cuban government, challenging the United States blockade of Cuba. * January 9 – ''Martyrs' Day'': Armed clashes between United States troops and Panamanian civilians in the Panama Canal Zone precipitate a major international crisis, resulting in the deaths of 21 Panamanians and 4 U.S. soldiers. * January 11 – United States Surgeon General Luther Terry reports that smoking may be hazardous to one's health (the first such statement from the U.S. government). * January 22 – Kenneth Kaunda is inaugurated as the first Prime Minister of Northern Rhodesia. * January 28 – A U.S. Air Force j ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1998 VAFA Season
1998 was designated as the ''International Year of the Ocean''. Events January * January 6 – The ''Lunar Prospector'' spacecraft is launched into orbit around the Moon, and later finds evidence for frozen water, in soil in permanently shadowed craters near the Moon's poles. * January 11 – Over 100 people are killed in the Sidi-Hamed massacre in Algeria. * January 12 – Nineteen European nations agree to forbid human cloning. * January 17 – The ''Drudge Report'' breaks the story about U.S. President Bill Clinton's alleged affair with Monica Lewinsky, which will lead to the House of Representatives' impeachment of him. February * February 3 – Cavalese cable car disaster: A United States military pilot causes the deaths of 20 people near Trento, Italy, when his low-flying EA-6B Prowler severs the cable of a cable-car. * February 4 – The 5.9 Afghanistan earthquake shakes the Takhar Province with a maximum Mercalli intensity of VII (''Very strong''). With up t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1975 VAFA Season
It was also declared the ''International Women's Year'' by the United Nations and the European Architectural Heritage Year by the Council of Europe. Events January * January 1 – Watergate scandal (United States): John N. Mitchell, H. R. Haldeman and John Ehrlichman are found guilty of the Watergate cover-up. * January 2 ** The Federal Rules of Evidence are approved by the United States Congress. ** A bomb blast at Samastipur, Bihar, India, fatally wounds Lalit Narayan Mishra, Minister of Railways. * January 5 – Tasman Bridge disaster: The Tasman Bridge in Hobart, Tasmania, Australia, is struck by the bulk ore carrier , causing a partial collapse resulting in 12 deaths. * January 15 – Alvor Agreement: Portugal announces that it will grant independence to Angola on November 11. * January 20 ** In Hanoi, North Vietnam, the Politburo approves the final military offensive against South Vietnam. ** Work is abandoned on the 1974 Anglo-French Channel Tunnel scheme. * January ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Old Geelong
The Old Geelong Sporting Club (known as the 'OGs') is an amateur men's and women's sports club based at Como Park, South Yarra, Victoria. The teams compete in the "Premier A & B" Divisions of the Victorian Amateur Football Association (VAFA). The club has associations with the two Geelong-based APS schools Geelong Grammar School and The Geelong College and draws many of its players from these two schools. The Club also has a strong link with many regional areas of Victoria, and attracts players from across the country. The OGs have won six Senior premierships, nine Reserves premierships, two Under 19’s premierships, two Club XXVIII premierships, one Senior Women's premiership & one Women’s Reserves premiership in their history. The Australian rules football team competes in the VAFA Premier B Men's division and the VAFA Premier A Women's division and has 6 teams consisting of Men's Seniors, Reserves, Thirds and Under 19s, and Women's Seniors and Reserves. Other sports practis ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Collegians Football Club
Collegians Football Club, nicknamed the Lions, is an Australian rules football club based in the Melbourne suburb of Albert Park. Formed in 1892, it is the second-oldest club in the Victorian Amateur Football Association (VAFA), after Melbourne University Football Club, although Collegians is the only present-day club that competed in the inaugural VAFA season. As of 2024, the club's men's and women's teams both compete in the Premier Division of the VAFA and VAFA Women's (VAFAW) respectively. History In 1891, Lawrence Adamson Lawrence Arthur Adamson, CMG, (20 April 1860 – 14 December 1932) was a schoolmaster of Wesley College, Melbourne, Australia, and is considered to be one of the greatest and most influential in the nation's educational history. Upon his reti ... established a Wesley College Old Boys' XVIII, which formally became Collegians Football Club in 1892. Adamson, who was for thirty years the Headmaster of Wesley College, was the President of the club ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
2017 VAFA Women's Season
The 2017 VAFA Women's season was the inaugural season of the VAFA Women's (VAFAW) competition. 40 teams competed across five divisions, and unlike the Victorian Amateur Football Association, VAFA men's competition, there was no promotion and relegation system. Brunswick Football Club (1963), Brunswick, , Melbourne University Football Club, Melbourne University and St Kevin's Old Boys Football Club#Women's teams, St Kevin's all entered two teams each. Background In July 2016, the Victorian Amateur Football Association (VAFA) announced they would launch a women's competition beginning in 2017, having considered a launch in 2016 before ultimately delaying the start date. Seven clubs with pre-existing men's VAFA teams — AJAX Football Club, AJAX, Brunswick Football Club (1963), Brunswick, , Kew Football Club, Kew, La Trobe University Football Club, La Trobe University, Melbourne University Football Club, Melbourne University and St Kevin's Old Boys Football Club#Women's teams, St Ke ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
