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Fitzroy's Geoff Moriarty made his debut in the 1897 VFL season. The inaugural Victorian Football League (VFL) season in 1897 saw 284 players make their senior debut for the eight clubs that comprised the VFL. Many of these players previously played for their clubs in the Victorian Football Association (VFA) prior to the establishment of the VFL.
Under the administration's new name Football Victoria (later AFL Victoria), those two competitions were merged into a single competition still known as the Victorian Football League. Since this time, the VFL has been contested by a mixture of three types of clubs: VFL clubs, operating on a stand-alone basis and maintaining a complete list of ...
The VFL used the system for three seasons, with eight clubs. The season arrangements were: Minor round – a double round-robin among all eight clubs (14 matches).; Major round – the eight clubs were split into two groups based on minor round finishing positions: 1st, 3rd, 5th and 7th; and 2nd, 4th, 6th and 8th.
The VFL was the most popular and dominant of the state leagues around the country in terms of overall attendance, interest, and money, and began to look towards expanding its influence directly into other states. The VFL and its top clubs already had the buying power to recruit top players from interstate.
History was made in 1991, with the Brisbane Bears winning the reserves premiership − the first non-Victorian club to win a VFL/AFL premiership in any grade. The Victorian State Football League was established at the end of 1991 to take over administration of football in Victoria from the Australian Football League , which was now becoming ...
John Charles Francis (22 June 1908 – 6 July 2001) was an Australian sportsman who played first-class cricket for Victoria and Australian rules football with Hawthorn in the Victorian Football League (VFL).
The 1961 VFL season was the 65th season of the Victorian Football League (VFL), the highest level senior Australian rules football competition in Victoria. The season featured twelve clubs, ran from 15 April until 23 September, and comprised an 18-game home-and-away season followed by a finals series featuring the top four clubs.
The Georgia–Florida League was a minor baseball league that existed from 1935 through 1958 (suspending operations during World War II) and in 1962–1963. It was one of many Class D circuits that played in the Southeastern United States during the postwar period—a group that included the Georgia State League, Georgia–Alabama League, Florida State League, and the Alabama State League.