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Geelong Football Club captains # Name [1] Years 1 Jack Conway: 1897–1899 2 Peter Burns: 1900 3 Henry Young: 1901–1909 4 Bill Eason: 1910–1913 5 Billy Orchard
This is a listing of Wikipedia entries of Australian rules football captains for the Geelong Football Club in the VFA (1879 – 1896), and the VFL/AFL (1897–present).
The Geelong Advertiser appears to indicate that Geelong had Saturday football teams regularly "hacked shins" in March 1859. In April 1859 local teetotaler Mr. William "Stitt" Jenkins (of Liverpool , England and Melbourne) who had been working in Geelong from 1853 educating local youths made repeated calls to form an athletic club to play ...
Chart of yearly ladder positions for Geelong in VFL/AFL. The club was founded in 1859 in the city of Geelong, Australia, and is the second oldest AFL club.It is believed to be the fourth oldest football club in Australia and one of the oldest in the world and one of the most successful. [2]
Joel Anthony Selwood (born 26 May 1988) is a former Australian rules footballer who played for the Geelong Football Club in the Australian Football League (AFL). He is a four-time premiership player (including one time as captain), a six-time All-Australian, and a three-time captain of the All-Australian team.
Edwin "Teddy" Rankin (1872–1944), was a member of Geelong's inaugural Victorian Football League (VFL) team of 1897 and captain of the team. In 1903, he became the first player to play 100 VFL matches for the club and won the Geelong Football Club's best and fairest award. He was also the first player to touch the ball on the ground, rather ...
Premiership player Mitch Duncan made his debut for Geelong in the opening round of the 2010 season. Club captain from the 2023 season, Patrick Dangerfield won the 2016 Brownlow Medal after transferring to Geelong from Adelaide. Two-time winner of the club's Carji Greeves Medal as best and fairest, Tom Stewart is a five-time All-Australian team ...
Ian James Nankervis (born 3 January 1948) is a former Australian rules footballer for the Geelong Football Club in the Victorian Football League (VFL). Nankervis played for Geelong for 17 seasons and was captain from 1978 to 1981, and again in 1983. Nankervis held the record of most senior level games for Geelong with 325 VFL games.