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Carlton won the 1871 club season and South Yarra Presentation Cup George Coulthard, an early champion Carlton footballer in 1880. During a meeting on 17 May 1865 at the University Hotel in Grattan Street Carlton the Carlton Football Club nominated secretary Ben James and president James Linacre respectively.
The 1945 VFL season was the 49th season of the VFL competition since its inception in 1897; and, having competed in every season, it was also the 49th season contested by the Carlton Football Club. As it had been since 1897, the club's home ground was Carlton Oval in Princes Park, North Carlton. In addition to its senior team, Carlton fielded a ...
During the game, the football world was inspired by one of the most famous marks in VFL/AFL history. Towards the end of the second quarter David McKay kicked it to the wing and Jesaulenko soared high into the sky on the shoulders of Collingwood's ruckman Graeme "Jerker" Jenkins, a giant of a man at 6'6", and took the heaven-high-grab with his ...
Australian Football on the Western Front World War 1 H85.55/160/88 State Library Victoria. Pick up games of Australian Rules football were popular amongst the Australian soldiers in World War 1. Private Victor Laidlaw describes one such match between his 2nd Field Ambulance and the Light Horse in Cairo in January 1915:
Fenley John "Fen" McDonald (25 May 1891 – 25 April 1915) was an Australian rules footballer who played with Carlton and Melbourne in the Victorian Football League (VFL).. He was a member of the First AIF, and was killed in action during the landing at Anzac Cove, Gallipoli, in Ottoman Turkey on 25 April 1915.
Cleared from North Fremantle on 29 April 1903, he returned to Carlton. [10] [11] He was named as Carlton's captain for the 1908 season, [12] and he became captain-coach when Jack Worrall resigned midway through 1909. [13] Elliott retired from the game after the 1911 season as the first player to reach 200 VFL games. [14]
Bruce Comben (23 October 1930 – 15 December 2002) [1] was an Australian rules footballer in the Victorian Football League (VFL). Comben made his debut for the Carlton Football Club in the Round 1 of the 1950 season. He retired from the game at the end of the 1961 season.
The game and event were both disappointments; fewer than 20,000 spectators attended, when a much higher crowd was expected, [19] and Carlton won an uncompetitive match by 88 points. The game is best remembered for a young Brendan Fevola, who at this stage had played only two senior games, kicking twelve goals for Carlton.