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AFL Victoria Country is an Australian rules football governing body with jurisdiction over the state of Victoria outside metropolitan Melbourne on behalf of AFL Victoria.As well as administering and promoting the code in the regions, it often arbitrates disputes in areas such as player clearances and club movements between country leagues, and may also be called upon as a higher authority of ...
It became standard to stage the elimination final and second semi-final at VFL Park; [8] and in 1975 (after the three-year contract signed in November 1971 had ended), a new agreement shifted the preliminary final to VFL Park also, resulting in three matches at each venue during the finals. [9] This arrangement persisted from 1975 until 1990.
Dockerty Cup winners: Northumberland & Durham United. 1914. The Dockerty Challenge Cup competition was established in 1909 by Harry Dockerty.It coincided with re-establishment of the Victoria's 'British Association' league in 1909 after the economic depression of the 1890s.
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The 1881 championship was played on grass at the Melbourne Cricket Ground. Highett reached the final again but lost to Louis Whyte. [8] The 1882 championship was played on the asphalt courts. Whyte reached the final again and met Arthur Keyser, a member of HMS Nelson. Whyte won the first set, but Keyser took the next three to win the ...
It was founded in 1957 and is the Victoria state open championship for men. It is run by Golf Victoria and is a Golf Australia national ranking event. The event is held concurrently with the Women's Victorian Open and offers equal prize pool for the two events. The tournament's tag line is: "Men and women. On the same course. At the same time.
The pre-season competition was established from the Australian Football Championships Night Series in 1988. The Night Series had been a competition featuring VFL, SANFL, WAFL and minor states representative teams which had been staged partly in the pre-season and partly during the premiership season, generally finishing in July; but, it had reduced in size and importance until 1987, when only ...
The Australian Open (stylized ΛO) is a tennis tournament organised by Tennis Australia annually at Melbourne Park in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia.It is chronologically the first of the four Grand Slam tennis events every year, held before the French Open, Wimbledon and the US Open.