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South Warrnambool Football Club
The South Warrnambool Football Netball Club, nicknamed the Roosters, are an Australian rules football and netball club that competes in the Hampden Football Netball League, Hampden Football League. The club is based in the regional Victorian city of Warrnambool and has played in the Hampden Football League since 1933. History Believed to have formed in 1902, the club initially played in the Warrnambool District Football Association competition in 1904 against Allensford, Rainbow and West End. In 1918, South Warrnambool and Railways Football Club merged and won the Warrnambool District Football Association premiership, defeating Koroit. In 1919 and 1920, Roy Cazaly coached South Warrnambool side during the finals series. It was Cazaly who saw the immense talent in Colin Watson (footballer), Colin Watson and enticed him to try out with the St Kilda Football Club, St. Kilda Football Club. When the Warrnambool DFA decided to merge with the Corangamite FA to form the Western Distric ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hampden Football Netball League
The Hampden Football Netball League is an Australian rules football and netball league based in South-Western Victoria (Australia), Victoria, with clubs located in towns along or near the Princes Highway from Camperdown, Victoria, Camperdown to Portland, Victoria, Portland. The league is a major country league. It comprises an amalgamation of the Hampden Football League with the women's netball league with the same teams and playing draw. History The ''Hampden Football League'' was formed in 1930, when the four founding clubs broke away from the Western District FL. Terang and Camperdown did not want to continue to travel to Hamilton because their players were farmers who could not spend all day away from the farm to play football, as they had cows to milk. Colac and Coragulac merged to form Colac-Coragulac in 1980. In 1986, they dropped Coragulac from the club's name, then in 2001 Colac left the Hampden league to join the Geelong Football League, Geelong FL. North Warrna ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Les Jago
Les Jago (10 December 1907 – 8 August 1985) was an Australian rules footballer who played with St Kilda in the Victorian Football League The Victorian Football League (VFL) is an Australian rules football competition in Australia operated by the Australian Football League (AFL) as a second-tier, regional, semi-professional competition. It includes teams from clubs based in east ... (VFL). Notes External links * * 1907 births 1985 deaths Australian rules footballers from Victoria (state) St Kilda Football Club players South Warrnambool Football Club players 20th-century Australian sportsmen {{AFL-bio-1907-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jim Board
Jim Board (born 17 February 1956) is a former Australian rules footballer who played with Collingwood in the Victorian Football League The Victorian Football League (VFL) is an Australian rules football competition in Australia operated by the Australian Football League (AFL) as a second-tier, regional, semi-professional competition. It includes teams from clubs based in east ... (VFL). Jeremy (Jim) Board, was also, (up to the year 2021 ), a teacher at the Mount Barker Waldorf School, having taught several rounds of children as their primary teacher up through grades one to seven. He is husband to wife Julie Board, with whom he has fathered and grandfathered children. Jeremy is a well beloved member of both the Mount Barker community and Waldorf/Steiner community broadly. Notes External links * * from Mount Barker Waldorf School 1956 births Australian rules footballers from Victoria (state) Collingwood Football Club players South Warrnambool F ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Burns (Australian Rules Footballer)
John Burns (born 10 August 1949) is a former Australian rules footballer who played for North Melbourne and Geelong in the Victorian Football League (VFL) during the 1970s. Prior to joining North Melbourne, Burns played with East Launceston in the Northern Tasmanian Football Association with whom he won both the competition and club best and fairest in 1969. That year he also represented the Tasmanian interstate team at the Adelaide Carnival. From 1970 he spent four seasons with East Perth East is one of the four cardinal directions or points of the compass. It is the opposite direction from west and is the direction from which the Sun rises on the Earth. Etymology As in other languages, the word is formed from the fact that eas ... and played in their 1972 premiership side. While in Western Australia he represented the state in two interstate matches. A centreman, Burns crossed to North Melbourne in 1973 and went on to play in three successive Grand Finals, culminati ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alan Thompson (Australian Footballer)
Alan Thompson (born 20 November 1951) is a former Australian rules footballer who played for the Fitzroy Football Club in the Victorian Football League The Victorian Football League (VFL) is an Australian rules football competition in Australia operated by the Australian Football League (AFL) as a second-tier, regional, semi-professional competition. It includes teams from clubs based in east ... (VFL). Notes External links * {{DEFAULTSORT:Thompson, Alan Living people 1951 births Australian rules footballers from Victoria (state) Fitzroy Football Club players South Warrnambool Football Club players 20th-century Australian sportsmen ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Phil Stevens (footballer)
Phil Stevens (born 14 September 1950) is a former Australian rules footballer who played with Geelong and St Kilda in the Victorian Football League (VFL). Arriving from South Warrnambool, Stevens was just 17 when he first appeared for Geelong. Worked as a primary school student teacher Although he started out as a half forward flanker, Stevens would however develop into a half back flanker, which was from where he played most of his games. He represented the VFL on one occasion. He was captain-coach of Sandringham in the 1982 VFA season.''The Age'"West Bids To Lure Radojevic Back" 16 April 1982, p. 22 Stevens was the general manager of the Victorian Amateur Football Association The Victorian Amateur Football Association (VAFA) is the largest senior community Australian rules football competition in Victoria, Australia, Victoria. Founded in 1892, it consists of six senior divisions, ranging from Premier to Division 3 i ... from 1989 to 2004 and is currently Operations M ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kevin Neale
Kevin Neale (18 July 1945 – 16 September 2023) was an Australian rules footballer who played for St Kilda Football Club, St Kilda in the Victorian Football League (VFL). Later in his career, he was a player-coach or captain-coach for a number of teams in the Australian Capital Territory, before eventually becoming a full-time coach. St Kilda Kevin Neale was born on 18 July 1945. He was recruited from Hampden Football League (HFL) club South Warrnambool Football Club, South Warrnambool, where he played in seven grand finals in a row. He was nicknamed "Cowboy". The origin of the nickname is uncertain; it was possibly for his bow-legs and his rolling gait, but coach Alan Jeans once said he played like a cowboy. Recruited by St Kilda as a nineteen-year-old, , ruckman, Neale played his first match for St Kilda Football Club, St Kilda against North Melbourne on 22 May 1965 (round 6), as a back-pocket/ruckman. He initially played in the backline (as the first change, resting in ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Terry Board (footballer Born 1945)
Terrence James Board (5 November 1945 – 23 November 2019) was an Australian rules footballer who played with Carlton in the Victorian Football League (VFL). After finishing his career at Collingwood, Board became playing coach at Western Border Football League club North Gambier. His brother Jim Board Jim Board (born 17 February 1956) is a former Australian rules footballer who played with Collingwood in the Victorian Football League The Victorian Football League (VFL) is an Australian rules football competition in Australia opera ... played football for Collingwood and his son Terry Jr played for Fitzroy. Terry Board died on 23 November 2019, at the age of 74. Notes External links *Terry Board's profileat Blueseum 1945 births 2019 deaths Carlton Football Club players South Warrnambool Football Club players Australian rules footballers from Victoria (state) 20th-century Australian sportsmen {{AFL-bio-1940s-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Denis Hughson
Denis Hughson (born 30 August 1944) is a former Australian rules footballer who played with Fitzroy in the Victorian Football League The Victorian Football League (VFL) is an Australian rules football competition in Australia operated by the Australian Football League (AFL) as a second-tier, regional, semi-professional competition. It includes teams from clubs based in east ... (VFL). Notes External links * * {{DEFAULTSORT:Hughson, Denis Living people 1944 births Australian rules footballers from Melbourne Fitzroy Football Club players South Warrnambool Football Club players 20th-century Australian sportsmen ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Brian McMahon (footballer)
Brian McMahon (born 15 July 1939) is a former Australian rules footballer who played with St Kilda in the Victorian Football League The Victorian Football League (VFL) is an Australian rules football competition in Australia operated by the Australian Football League (AFL) as a second-tier, regional, semi-professional competition. It includes teams from clubs based in east ... (VFL). McMahon was recruited from South Warrnambool and played 10 senior games for St Kilda, in the 1962 and 1963 VFL seasons. References External links * * {{DEFAULTSORT:McMahon, Brian 1939 births Australian rules footballers from Victoria (state) St Kilda Football Club players South Warrnambool Football Club players Living people 20th-century Australian sportsmen ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Frank Johnson (footballer, Born 1932)
Frank Johnson may refer to: Entertainment * Francis Johnson (composer) (1792–1844), known as Frank, American musician and composer * Frank Johnson (musician) (c. 1790–1871), American musician * Frank Tenney Johnson (1874–1939), painter of the American west * Frankie Darro (1917–1976), American actor born Frank Johnson Jr. * Frank E. Johnson, American cinematographer, producer and film director * Frank Johnson Publications, an Australian comic book publisher Politics * Frank Johnson (politician) Joseph Colin Francis Johnson (12 February 1848 – 18 June 1904), generally called J. C. F. Johnson or Frank Johnson, was a journalist and politician in colonial South Australia, Minister of Education 1887 to 1889. Johnson was born in Adelaid ... (1848–1904), journalist and politician in colonial South Australia * Frank Johnson (mayor) (1855–1921), mayor of Adelaide, 1907–1909 * Frank H. Johnson (1867–?), American politician * Frank B. Johnson (politician) (189 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bob Nisbet
Bob Nisbet (born 15 February 1936) is a former Australian rules footballer who played with Hawthorn in the Victorian Football League The Victorian Football League (VFL) is an Australian rules football competition in Australia operated by the Australian Football League (AFL) as a second-tier, regional, semi-professional competition. It includes teams from clubs based in east ... (VFL). Recruited from the country club of South Warrnambool, Nisbet followed the steps of teammate Ron Hoy to Hawthorn. While Hoy played only one game then returned to Warrnambool, Nisbet stayed in Melbourne. After he left the Hawks, Nisbet with a posse of others went down to Mordialloc which was a fairly strong team in the (VFA) in those days. He won the club best and fairest there and was elected vice-captain. He spent three years there and then coached Mount Waverley in the South East Suburban league to a premiership and finished in the four a couple of times. Notes External links ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
