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The Carlton Football Club, nicknamed the Blues, is a professional Australian rules football club based at Princes Park in Carlton North, an inner suburb of Melbourne in Victoria, Australia. The club competes in the Australian Football League (AFL), the sport's premier competition.
Australian rules football was played by POWs throughout the Second World War, with competitions held in Singapore and Germany. [11] The Changi Football League, played at Changi Prison, was held in 1942/43 and contested by teams called "Melbourne", "Richmond", "Essendon" and "Carlton". [12]
He moved to Victoria at the start of 1914, and joined both the Carlton Football Club and the Carlton Cricket Club. His senior VFL career with Carlton did not begin until June 1914, [ 6 ] when the dispute in Tasmania had ended and his suspension was lifted.
An infamous battle between Carlton and South Melbourne (now Sydney Swans), in which the game became footbrawl rather than football.It is the most bloodiest and toughest grand final of all time with the reporting and suspension of ten footballers from both teams.
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.
The 1916 VFL Grand Final was an Australian rules football game contested between the Carlton Football Club and Fitzroy Football Club, held at the Melbourne Cricket Ground in Melbourne on 2 September 1916. It was the 19th annual Grand Final of the Victorian Football League, staged to determine the premiers for the 1916 VFL season. The match ...
Albert John Gourlay (31 July 1881 – 1 November 1918) was an Australian rules footballer who played with Melbourne and Carlton in the Victorian Football League (VFL). He died of wounds sustained in action during World War I.
Carlton Football Club. World War One Service Record: Driver Arthur Hiskens (33157), National Archive of Australia . First World War Nominal Roll: Driver Arthur Hiskens (33157), Australian War Museum .