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Arthur Kinnaird: First Lord of Football, Andy Mitchell. CreateSpace, 2011. ISBN 978-1-4636-2111-7. (Revised and republished in 2020). Oxford Dictionary of National Biography; The Official History Of The Football Association, Bryon Butler, ISBN 0-356-19145-1; Association Football and the Men Who Made It, William Pickford and Alfred Gibson ...
Charles Henry Reynolds Wollaston (31 July 1849 – 22 June 1926) was an English footballer who played as a forward for Wanderers and England.He won the FA Cup five times with Wanderers, becoming the first player to do so.
This is a list of records from the Victorian Football League (previously known as the Victorian Football Association) since its inception in 1877. From 1961 until 1988 , the VFA seniors were split into Division 1 and Division 2.
On 2 October 1896, just after the end of the 1896 season, representatives from six clubs held a meeting at Buxton's Art Gallery in Collins Street, at which it was decided to form the VFL Victorian Football League, which would represent the stronger clubs and begin playing in the 1897 football season. The clubs with delegates at that meeting ...
Peter McKenna (born 27 August 1946) is a former Australian rules footballer who represented Collingwood and Carlton in the Victorian Football League (VFL) during the 1960s and 1970s. He also represented Devonport in the North West Football Union (NWFU), and Northcote , Port Melbourne and Geelong West in the Victorian Football Association (VFA).
At the end of the 1924 season, the VFL took over the MDFA and replaced it with the VFL Sub-Districts, officially called the Victorian Football League Sub-Districts Association. [ 14 ] [ 15 ] W.H. Smith was elected as the new league's inaugural president, and the first game was played on 2 May 1925 between Oakleigh and Dandenong .
Thomas Clarke (21 November 1906 – 24 July 1981) was an Australian rules footballer who played 103 games for Essendon in the Victorian Football League (VFL) from 1927 to 1934, and 105 games for Brunswick in the Victorian Football Association (VFA) from 1935 to 1940.
Edward Hugh Buggy (9 June 1896 – 18 June 1974) was a leading journalist well known as an Australian rules football writer covering the Victorian Football League (renamed in 1989 Australian Football League). Born at Seymour, Victoria in 1896, Buggy attended school there before moving to Melbourne with his mother after the death of his father.