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The club was established on 2 May 1885, when a meeting was held at the Criterion Hotel in Perth in order to form a "new Footballers' Club". At the meeting, A. C. Rankin and H. S. Haussen were elected captain and vice-captain of the club, respectively, while J. C. H. James was elected president.
The 1905 VFL Grand Final was an Australian rules football game contested between the Fitzroy Football Club and Collingwood Football Club, held at the Melbourne Cricket Ground in Melbourne on 30 September 1905. It was the 8th annual Grand Final of the Victorian Football League, staged to determine the premiers for the 1905 VFL season.
Victorian was activated to the 53 man roster a week later. Victorian was then released on August 31, 2014. [21] On September 23, 2014, Victorian was signed to the Detroit Lions practice squad. On November 12, 2014, Victorian was signed to the New York Giants' practice squad. On April 15, 2015, he was waived by the Giants. On May 28, 2015 ...
Victorian Football League; Current season, competition or edition: 2025 VFL season: Formerly: Victorian Football Association (1877–1995) Sport: Australian rules football: Founded: 17 May 1877; 147 years ago () (in Melbourne) First season: 1877: Administrator: AFL Victoria AFL Commission: No. of teams: 21: Region: Victoria New South Wales ...
Kershaw went on play 81 games for Victorian Football Association side Williamstown between 1983 and 1988, which included a premiership in 1986. [6] [7] Named on the interchange bench in Williamstown's official Team of the Century, Kershaw won four successive best and fairest awards from 1983 to 1986, the only player in the club's history to have done so, [7] [8] and placed second for the 1984 ...
Arthur Kinnaird: First Lord of Football, Andy Mitchell. CreateSpace, 2011. ISBN 978-1-4636-2111-7. (Revised and republished in 2020). Oxford Dictionary of National Biography; The Official History Of The Football Association, Bryon Butler, ISBN 0-356-19145-1; Association Football and the Men Who Made It, William Pickford and Alfred Gibson ...
The first intercolonial representative game of football was played between Victoria and South Australia in 1879 [5] with teams made up of Victorian Football Association and South Australia Football Association players. Even after the introduction of the VFL in 1897, the VFA would continue to be the premier Victorian team.
Although Australian rules football had been played in some form during Melbourne winters since 1858, the 1870 season is conventionally considered to be the first season of senior football competition in Victorian history, or at least the first season for which a premiership can be officially allocated.