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Nichols Medal
The Nichols Medal is the annual award to the "best and fairest" player in Australian Rules football competition the Northern Territory Football League in the Northern Territory, Australia Australia, officially the Commonwealth of Australia, is a country comprising mainland Australia, the mainland of the Australia (continent), Australian continent, the island of Tasmania and list of islands of Australia, numerous smaller isl .... It is named in honour of Joseph W. Nichols , a long time administrator of Australian Rules football in the Northern Territory. The first NTFL "best and fairest" was awarded in 1947, but the first award under the name "Nichols Medal" was made in 1949. In 1993, the NTFL retrospectively awarded medals to players who had lost previous counts via the countback system. Winners by season 1946 to 1975 1976 to 2018 Multiple winners The following players have won the Nichols Medal multiple times. References {{NTFL Australian rules foot ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Best And Fairest
In Australian sport, the best and fairest award recognises the player(s) adjudged to have had the best performance in a game or over a season for a given sporting club or competition. The awards are sometimes dependent on not receiving a suspension for misconduct or breaching the rules during that season. It is similar to most valuable player (MVP) awards in other team sports. In the Australian Football League (AFL), the Brownlow Medal is awarded to the player who, provided he has not been suspended during the season, receives the most votes from the umpire (Australian rules football), umpires for being the fairest and best player in games during the season (sports), home-and-away season. In each game, the umpires award three votes to the player they judge to be the best afield in that game, two votes to the second-best player, and one vote to the third-best player. The votes are counted at a gala function on the Monday preceding the grand final, Grand Final. The eligibility of s ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Wanderers Football Club
The Wanderers Football Club, nicknamed, Eagles, is an Australian rules football club, currently playing in the Northern Territory Football League (NTFL). The club was formed in 1916 as a founding member of the NTFL. It has produced Australian Football League (AFL) players such as Shannon, Daniel and Marlon Motlop Marlon Motlop (born 17 April 1990), also professionally known as Marlon (stylised in all caps), is an Indigenous Australian former Australian rules footballer and musician. Motlop played with the Port Adelaide Football Club from 2008 to 2011 i ..., Russell Jeffrey, Mark West, Troy Taylor, Relton Roberts, Steven Motlop and Liam Patrick. Club achievements Club song External links Wanderers FC - Facebook* Sport in Darwin, Northern Territory Australian rules football clubs in the Northern Territory 1916 establishments in Australia Australian rules football clubs established in 1916 {{NorthernTerritory-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Wanderers F
Wanderer, Wanderers, or The Wanderer may refer to: Arts and entertainment Film, television, and theater * The Wanderer (1913 film), ''The Wanderer'' (1913 film), a silent film * The Wanderer (1925 film), ''The Wanderer'' (1925 film), a silent film directed by Raoul Walsh, starring Greta Nissen and Wallace Beery * The Wanderers (1956 film), ''The Wanderers'' (1956 film), an Italian drama film directed by Hugo Fregonese and starring Peter Ustinov * The Wanderer (1967 film), ''The Wanderer'' (1967 film), a French film directed by Jean-Gabriel Albicocco * The Wanderers (1973 film), ''The Wanderers'' (1973 film), a Japanese film directed by Kon Ichikawa * The Wanderers (1979 film), ''The Wanderers'' (1979 film), an American film directed by Philip Kaufman * , Israeli film * Wanderers (2014 film), ''Wanderers'' (2014 film), a Swedish science fiction short * The Wanderer (TV series), ''The Wanderer'' (TV series), a 1994 British television series starring Bryan Brown * Wanderer, a cha ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tiwi Bombers Football Club
The Tiwi Bombers Football Club is an Australian rules football club, currently competing in the Northern Territory Football League. The club is notable as being the first all-Indigenous Australian, Aboriginal team to play in a major competition. The team is affiliated with the Essendon Football Club, where two famous Tiwi Island products Michael Long (footballer), Michael Long and Dean Rioli played their football in the national Australian Football League (AFL). Essendon provided jumpers for the team and the team adopted the "Bombers" moniker. The team's initial name was Tiwi Storm. AFL players Austin Wonaeamirri, Dean Rioli, Willie Rioli and Anthony McDonald-Tipungwuti have played for the club. Club achievements 2006–07 season The club won six out of seven "trial" games in its inaugural restricted season, many of the six wins by significant margins displaying a trademark play-on at all costs fast-paced style. Their only defeat was to the eventual NTFL premiers, Souther ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Shannon Rusca
Shannon Rusca is a former professional Australian rules football player. Early life Rusca began playing senior Australian Football with Southern Districts in the Northern Territory Football League. AFL career He was listed on the rookie list by the Brisbane Lions in 2000 before being elevated during the season. During the 2000 AFL season he played two matches. Rusca was traded to the Western Bulldogs for selection 49 in the 2001 AFL Draft The 2001 AFL draft consisted of a state draft, a body draft, a pre-season draft and a trade period. The AFL draft is the annual draft of players by Australian rules football teams that participate in the main competition of that sport, the Austr .... He did not play a senior match for the Bulldogs. Post AFL Rusca played for the Northern Territory Thunder in the Queensland AFL and Southern Districts in the NTFL. Rusca was a playing coach with Southern Districts during the 2008/2009 NTFL season. References External links {{DEFA ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Heath Culpitt
Heath Culpitt (born 16 February 1978) is an Australian rules footballer. He played with Carlton in the Australian Football League. From Castlemaine, Victoria, Culpitt played football for the Castlemaine Football Club, before being recruited to the AFL by the Carlton Football Club in 1998. He spent four years with Carlton, playing as a utility/midfielder, and played fifteen games between 1999 and 2001 before being delisted. Since being delisted, Culpitt has played for Glenelg and Norwood in the South Australian National Football League, and for St Mary's and Waratah in the Northern Territory Football League The Northern Territory Football League (NTFL) is an Australian rules football competition, operating in Greater Darwin, Northern Territory, Darwin and the Northern Territory, formerly run by the Northern Territory Football League Incorporated a .... While with St Mary's in the 2005/06 NTFL season, Culpitt won the Nichols Medal as the league best and fairest. In 200 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Marty Christensen
Martin Christensen (born 10 September 1965) is a former Australian rules footballer who played with Geelong and North Melbourne in the Victorian/Australian Football League (VFL/AFL). Christensen was a semi-regular fixture in the Geelong senior team from 1985 to 1988 as a wingman and defender. Recruited from Lara, he missed just three games in 1986 and averaged 17 disposals per match in 1987. However Christensen did not play a senior game in 1989 and over the following two seasons could only manage nine appearances, the last of which was the 1991 preliminary final loss to the West Coast Eagles. Christensen moved to North Melbourne in 1992 but was delisted at the end of an injury interrupted season. North Melbourne redrafted Christensen again, with the 123rd selection in the draft. Despite this he never played another game of AFL and finished the 1993 season with Lara. Christensen also played for St Mary's in the Northern Territory Football League (NTFL) and was a member of t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Southern Districts Football Club
The Southern Districts Football Club, nicknamed the Crocs, is an Australian rules football club established in 1981. The club plays in the Northern Territory Football League at semi-professional level and represent the rural area of Litchfield. Premier League ('A' Grade) The club won their first ever 'A' Grade Premiership under Coach Mark Motlop in the 1997/98 season defeating St Mary's. Michael "Magic" McLean coached for a number of seasons commencing with the 2006/07 Premiership season. Shannon Rusca became Senior Coach in the 2012/13 season. Shannon who played as the youngest Premier League premiership player as a 17-year-old in the club's first 'A' grade Premiership in the 1997/98 season was Captain in the 2006/07 season Premiership winning team playing as a Player / Assistant Coach under "Magic". Then in the 2017/18 season coached the team to the club's third Premier League premiership. Club achievements History The club was formed in the early 1980s. In 1981 it en ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Damien Christensen
Damien Christensen (born 16 October 1963) is a former Australian rules footballer in the Victorian Football League. Christensen played 17 games for the Geelong Football Club. After his playing career, Christensen has coached the Geelong Falcons, , and the Box Hill Hawks. Christensen's brother Marty and nephew Allen Allen, Allen's or Allens may refer to: Buildings * Allen Arena, an indoor arena at Lipscomb University in Nashville, Tennessee * Allen Center, a skyscraper complex in downtown Houston, Texas * Allen Fieldhouse, an indoor sports arena on the Univ ... have also played for Geelong. References External links * {{DEFAULTSORT:Christensen, Damien Living people 1963 births Australian rules footballers from Victoria (state) Geelong Football Club players Lara Football Club players Box Hill Football Club coaches ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Palmerston Football Club
The Palmerston Football Club, nicknamed, Magpies, is an Australian rules football club, currently playing in the Northern Territory Football League. They were first called Internationals before entering the NTFL, then they were called North Darwin from the 1972/73 to 1995/96 season. Club achievements History The Palmerston Magpies Football Club began in 1970 and was originally known as the Internationals. At that time most players were English and Greek soccer players. John O'Donoghue and Paul Fricker got them started with John doing the ground work while Paul represented the club at NTFL meetings. In 1971, the club was informed by the NTFL executive to field three teams and to change its name to a more suitable football name, hence Nth Darwin was born. In 1972 club was renamed North Darwin Football Club, with the club winning a premiership in 1980/81 under the leadership of Coach Ian Smith and Captain John Stokes (father of AFL footballer Mathew Stokes). North Darwin Footb ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Michael Graham (footballer)
Michael Wayne Graham (born 11 January 1952) is a former Australian rules footballer. He played with in the South Australian National Football League (SANFL) and St Mary's in the Northern Territory Football League (NTFL) during the 1970s and 1980s. He was inducted into the Australian Football Hall of Fame in 2024. Early life and education Michael Wayne Graham was born on 11 January 1952, in Wallaroo, into an Aboriginal Australian family living in the Point Pearce mission on the Yorke Peninsula in South Australia. The second youngest of 15 children, his father was Cecil Graham (1911–1994), who played for Central District in the SANFL, and his mother Doris May Edwards (1912-2004). In a book about their family history, ''As We've Known It: 1911 to the Present''Williams, Nadine. 2004. "Queen of Kaurna people dies, aged 92," Advertiser, The (Adelaide, Australia), November 13, pp. 008. (1987) his parents Cecil and Doris relate that coach Jack Oatey and general manager Vic O ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nightcliff Football Club
The Nightcliff Football Club, nicknamed, Tigers, is a member club of the Northern Territory Football League, and is based in the Darwin suburb of Nightcliff. Club achievements * note: Nightcliff finished on top in the 1974/75 season after when it got cancelled after Round 11. History The club was formed in 1950. It was formally known as Working & Housing. Michael McLean was coach in 2005/06. Steve Easton was coach for the 2006/07 season. Nightcliff Football Club has competed in the NTFL competition in Darwin, Northern Territory since it entered as the Works & Housing team in 1950. The Home and Away season commences in October with Finals played in March the following year. The Club has its own home ground at the Nightcliff Oval (Darwin Mazda Oval) situated adjacent to the Nightcliff Sports Club. Games are also played at Darwin's TIO Marrara Stadium and various other club home grounds. The Nightcliff Football Club was originally formed as Works and Housing Football Club in ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
