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The Brisbane Bears' team song was to the tune of "Battle Hymn of the Republic/Mine Eyes Have Seen the Glory/Glory, Glory Hallelujah" The Fitzroy Lions' team song was compiled by Bill Stephen in 1952 on a train to Perth during a football trip. Bill Stephen wrote the first line of the song after which each other player wrote a line.
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"Up There Cazaly" is an Australian rules football catchphrase inspired by early 20th century St Kilda and South Melbourne great Roy Cazaly. Australian football: There's only one Tony Lockett: 1999: James Freud (singer) Highest goal scorer in the history of the VFL/AFL with 1,360 goals in a career of 281 games. [4] Australian football: One True ...
He reached the Melbourne music charts in the early 1970s with "Smile All the While" (written by Johnny Young) and "Things to Remember". SANFL legend Graham Cornes released "I Gotta Girl" together with the football-themed B-side "Untying the Laces" in 1977. [29] Twelve VFL players feature on the 1980 LP Footy Favourites. The cover urged fans to ...
In the early years, Fitzroy and Collingwood were the dominant teams. Following the arrival of Jack Worrall as coach in 1903 , Carlton began a dominating period, during which they won three successive flags from 1906 to 1908 ; although Worrall was the club secretary, he took on a player management and "direction role", which is today recognised ...
The AFL then began work to establish a club on the Gold Coast as a new expansion team. Early in 2008, a meeting held by the AFL discussed having two new teams enter the AFL competition. [32] In March 2008, the AFL won the support of the league's 16 club presidents to establish sides on the Gold Coast and in Western Sydney.
During the 1950s, the National Football League had grown to rival Major League Baseball as one of the most popular professional sports leagues in the United States. One franchise that did not share in this newfound success of the league was the Chicago Cardinals – owned by the Bidwill family – who had become overshadowed by the more popular Chicago Bears.
5 AFL Teams. 6 AFL Today. ... Duration: 60 minutes ... Seven Network, early 1960s–1986 Hosted by Bob Davis, with Jack Dyer and Lou Richards