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Paul Rizonico
Paul Rizonico (born 16 February 1966) is a former Australian rules footballer who played with Collingwood in the Victorian Football League (VFL) and with Port Adelaide in the South Australian National Football League (SANFL). Before joining Collingwood at the VFL level, Rizonico played for Bundoora's junior team. In the 1987 season, Rizonico played 12 senior games and scored 5 goals for Collingwood, as well as contributing at the reserves level. For his latter contribution Rizonico won the best and fairest award, the Joseph Wren Memorial Trophy, jointly with Mark Beers, when it was first awarded in 1987. After leaving Collingwood, Rizonico joined Port Adelaide Port Adelaide is a port-side region of Adelaide, approximately northwest of the Adelaide CBD. It is also the namesake of the City of Port Adelaide Enfield council, a suburb, a federal and state electoral division and is the main port for the ... in the SANFL and played with them for six years, winning two prem ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bundoora Football Club
Bundoora Football Club is an Australian rules football club in Bundoora, Victoria, currently competing in the Northern Football League. They are affiliated with the Bundoora Junior Football Club, who play in the Yarra Junior Football League. History *1975–1980 P.H.F.L A Grade Premiers 1980 *1981–1981 D.V.F.L Division Two, Premiers 1981 *1982–2006 D.V.F.L Division One, Premiers 1995, 1996 *2007–2017 N.F.L Division One, Premiers 2011, 2013, 2017 *2018- present N.F.N.L Division One, Reserves Premiers 2018, 2019 VFL/AFL players * Mark Slater ( Collingwood) * Cameron Cloke ( Collingwood, Carlton Carlton may refer to: People * Carlton (name), a list of those with the given name or surname * Carlton (singer), English soul singer Carlton McCarthy * Carlton, a pen name used by Joseph Caldwell (1773–1835), American educator, Presbyterian ... & Port Adelaide) * Gary Moorcroft ( Essendon & Melbourne) * Ricky Dyson, ( Essendon) Brad Boyd (Fitzroy & Brisbane Lion ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Princes Park (stadium)
Princes Park (or Carlton Recreation Ground, currently known by its sponsored name Ikon Park) is an Australian rules football ground located inside the wider Princes Park in the inner Melbourne suburb of Carlton North. It is a historic venue, having been the home ground of the Carlton Football Club since early in its history. Prior to a partial redevelopment the ground had a nominal capacity of 35,000, making it the third largest Australian rules football venue in Melbourne after the Melbourne Cricket Ground and Docklands Stadium. Princes Park hosted three grand finals during World War II, with a record attendance of 62,986 at the 1945 VFL Grand Final between Carlton and . After 2005, when the ground hosted its last Australian Football League (AFL) game, two stands were removed and replaced with an indoor training facility and administration building, reducing the capacity. Austadiums lists the current capacity of the stadium at around 21,176. History The Carlton Football Cl ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Port Adelaide Football Club (SANFL)
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 they are nicknamed the Power, whilst its reserves men's team competes in the South Australian National Football League (SANFL), where they are nicknamed the Magpies. Since its founding, the club has won an unequalled 36 SANFL premierships and 4 Championship of Australia titles, in addition to an 2004 AFL Grand Final, AFL Premiership in 2004. It has also fielded a Port Adelaide Football Club (AFL Women's), women's team in the AFL Women's (AFLW) league since 2022. Founded in 1870, Port Adelaide is the oldest professional football club in South Australia and the List of Australian rules football clubs by date of establishment, fifth-oldest club in the AFL. Port Adelaide was a founding member of the South Australian Football Association (SAFA), later renamed as ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
South Australian National Football League
The South Australian National Football League, or SANFL ( or ''S-A-N-F-L''), is an Australian rules football league based in the Australian state of South Australia. It is also the state's governing body for the sport. Originally formed as the South Australian Football Association on 30 April 1877, the SANFL is the oldest surviving football league of any code in Australia and is the 7th oldest club football league in the world. Consisting of a single division competition, since the admission of the Adelaide Crows AFL Reserves in 2014 the season, has been a 10-team, 18-round home-and-away (regular) season from April to September. The top five teams play-off in a final series culminating in the grand final for the Thomas Seymour Hill Premiership Trophy. The grand final had traditionally been held at Football Park in October, generally the week after the AFL Grand Final, though this was altered ahead of the 2014 season resulting in Adelaide Oval hosting the grand final in the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1990 SANFL Grand Final
The 1990 SANFL Grand Final was an Australian rules football game contested between the Port Adelaide Football Club and the Glenelg Football Club, held at Football Park on Sunday 7 October 1990.The Advertiser (Adelaide) newspaper 8 October 1990, pages 45,46,53,54 It was the 89th annual Grand Final of the South Australian National Football League, staged to determine the premiers of the 1990 SANFL season. The match, attended by 50,589 spectators, was won by Port Adelaide by a margin of 15 points, marking that club's thirtieth premiership victory. It was the last time that Australian rules football was played in South Australia without the presence of an AFL club. Background Port Adelaide's AFL bid The 1990 SANFL Grand Final was the last time until Port Adelaide's elevation to the AFL in 1997 that the two best South Australian football teams in the state would go head to head. This was due to the Port Adelaide Football Club's application to enter the AFL earlier in the year whic ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1992 SANFL Grand Final
The 1992 South Australian National Football League (SANFL) Grand Final saw the Port Adelaide Magpies defeat the Glenelg Football Club, Glenelg Tigers by 56 points. The match was played on Saturday 3 October 1992 at AAMI Stadium, Football Park in wet weather in front of a crowd of 42,242.Sunday Mail (Adelaide) newspaper 4 October 1992, pages 1,47,50,107 This was Port Adelaide's 31st SANFL Premiership. In the 24-year period of 1969–1992, Glenelg had appeared in 14 Grand Finals for only 3 Premiership victories (all over North Adelaide Roosters, North Adelaide). Of the 11 Grand Final defeats, 5 were at the hands of Port Adelaide. Teams Port Adelaide was captained by Greg Phillips and coached by John Cahill (footballer), John Cahill. Glenelg was captained by Scott Salisbury and coached by Kym Hodgeman. For Port Adelaide, Nathan Buckley had 26 disposals (22 kicks, 4 handballs), followed by Bruce Abernethy and Rohan J. Smith, Rohan Smith with 25. Roger Delaney took 7 marks ... [...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 oval field, often a modified cricket ground. Points are scored by kicking the 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 kicking, 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 bounce or touch it on the ground. Throwing the ball is not allowed, and players must not get caught holding the ball. A distinctive feature of the game is the mark, where players anywhere on the field who catch the ball from a kick (with specific conditions) are awarded unim ... [...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 that competes in the Australian Football League (AFL), the sport's elite competition. The club was formed in 1892 in the suburb of Collingwood and played in the Victorian Football Association (VFA) before joining seven other teams in 1896 to found the breakaway Victorian Football League, today known as the AFL. Originally based at Victoria Park, Collingwood now plays home games at the Melbourne Cricket Ground and has its training and administrative headquarters at Olympic Park Oval and the AIA Centre. Collingwood has played in a record 44 VFL/AFL Grand Finals (including rematches), winning 15, drawing two and losing 27 (also a record). Regarded as one of Australia's most popular sports clubs, Collingwood has attracted the second-highest attendance figures and television ratings of any professional football team in the nation. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Australian Football League
The Australian Football League (AFL) is the only fully professional sports, professional competition of Australian rules football. Through the AFL Commission, the AFL also serves as the sport's governing body and is responsible for controlling the Laws of Australian football, laws of the game. Originally known as the Victorian Football League (VFL), it was founded in 1896 as a breakaway competition from the Victorian Football Association (VFA), with 1897 VFL season, its inaugural season commencing the following year. The VFL, aiming to become a national competition, began expanding beyond Victoria (Australia), Victoria to other Australian states in the 1980s, and changed its name to the AFL in 1990. The league currently consists of 18 teams spread over five of Australia's six states (Tasmania being the exception). Matches have been played in all states, plus the Australian Capital Territory and the Northern Territory, as well as in New Zealand and China to expand the league's au ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mark Beers (footballer)
Mark Edward Beers (born 15 August 1965) is a former Australian rules footballer who played with Collingwood Football Club, Collingwood in the Australian Football League, Victorian Football League (VFL). In his first two seasons he played 31 senior games. In his next and final two seasons, Beers only played 9 senior games. However, he contributed at the reserves level, winning the team's best and fairest jointly with Paul Rizonico in 1987. After leaving Collingwood and the VFL, Beers joined Kyabram Football Club, Kyabram in the Goulburn Valley Football League (GVFL), becoming the team captain, and afterwards, the senior coach. In 2006, Beers was appointed as assistant and reserves coach for the Victorian Amateur Football Association (VAFA) team Old Scotch Football Club, Old Scotch. His father Brian Beers was a member of Collingwood's 1958 premiership team. References External links * {{DEFAULTSORT:Beers, Mark 1965 births Australian rules footballers from Victoria (sta ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
BigPond
Telstra Group Limited is an Australian telecommunications company that builds and operates telecommunications networks and markets voice, mobile, internet access, pay television and other products and services. It is a member of the S&P/ASX 20 and Australia's largest telecommunications company by market share. Telstra is the largest wireless carrier in Australia, with 18.8 million subscribers as of 2020. Telstra has a long history in Australia, originating together with Australia Post as the Postmaster-General's Department upon federation in 1901. Telstra has transitioned from a state-owned enterprise to a fully privatised company and has recently focused on diversified products and emerging technologies. History Australia's telecommunications services were originally controlled by the Postmaster-General's Department (PMG), formed in 1901 as a result of Australian Federation. Prior to 1901, telecommunications were administered by each colony. On 1 July 1975, sepa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1966 Births
Events January * January 1 – In a coup, Colonel Jean-Bédel Bokassa takes over as military ruler of the Central African Republic, ousting President David Dacko. * January 3 – 1966 Upper Voltan coup d'état: President Maurice Yaméogo is deposed by a military coup in the Republic of Upper Volta (modern-day Burkina Faso). * January 10 ** Pakistani–Indian peace negotiations end successfully with the signing of the Tashkent Declaration, a day before the sudden death of Indian prime minister Lal Bahadur Shastri. ** The House of Representatives of the US state of Georgia refuses to allow African-American representative Julian Bond to take his seat, because of his anti-war stance. ** A Commonwealth Prime Ministers' Conference convenes in Lagos, Nigeria, primarily to discuss Rhodesia. * January 12 – United States President Lyndon Johnson states that the United States should stay in South Vietnam until Communist aggression there is ended. * January 15 – 1966 N ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
