The Carlton Football Club, nicknamed the Blues, is a professional Australian rules football club that competes in the Australian Football League (AFL), the sport's elite competition.
John Robert Nicholls is a former Australian rules footballer who played for the Carlton Football Club in the Victorian Football League (VFL).
The 1970 Victorian Football League season was the 74th season of the elite Australian rules football competition.
Robert Walls is a former Australian rules footballer who represented Carlton and Fitzroy in the Victorian Football League (VFL) during the 1960s and 1970s. In a playing career that spanned three decades Robert played a combined 259 games and kicked a total of 444 goals. Throughout the 1980s and 1990s he continued to coach in the VFL/AFL for a total of 347 games across four different clubs. As a coach, his greatest achievement came in 1987 when he coached Carlton to the 1987 VFL premiership, the same club he won premierships with as player in 1968, 1970 and 1972. After his coaching career ended, Walls became involved in the AFL media as a commentator and columnist. Walls was also a grade 4 teacher at Park Orchards Primary School at the time that he was a coach.
Peter John HudsonAM is a former Australian rules footballer who played for the Hawthorn Football Club in the Victorian Football League (VFL) and for the New Norfolk Football Club and Glenorchy Football Club in the Tasmanian Australian National Football League (TANFL).
Bernard Francis Quinlan is a former Australian rules footballer who played for the Footscray Football Club and Fitzroy Football Club in the Victorian Football League (VFL).
Alex Jesaulenko is a former Australian rules footballer and who played for the Carlton Football Club and the St Kilda Football Club in the Victorian Football League (VFL). He also served as a coach at both clubs.
Barry Davis is a former Australian rules footballer who played in the Victorian Football League (VFL) with Essendon and North Melbourne, before coaching his original team between 1978 and 1980.
Ian Harlow Stewart is a former Australian rules footballer who played for the St. Kilda Football Club and Richmond Football Club in the Victorian Football League (VFL). He later coached South Melbourne and Carlton before returning to St. Kilda to serve as general manager.
Royce Desmond Hart is a former Australian rules footballer who played for the Richmond Football Club in the Victorian Football League (VFL).
Barry Thomas Cable MBE is a former Australian rules footballer and coach. Considered one of the greatest rovers in the sport's history, he played over 400 games at senior level in the Western Australian Football League (WAFL) and the Victorian Football League (VFL), and later coached in both competitions.
Greg Kennedy is a former Australian rules footballer who played in the early 1970s with VFL club Carlton.
Brian Kekovich is a former Australian rules footballer in the VFL/AFL, who played for two seasons with the Carlton Football Club.
Bert Deacon was an Australian rules footballer who played for Carlton in the Victorian Football League (VFL). He is remembered for being Carlton's first ever Brownlow Medal winner.
Brent Tasman Crosswell is a former Australian rules footballer who played for the Carlton Football Club, North Melbourne Football Club and Melbourne Football Club in the Victorian Football League (VFL).
Craig Davis is a former Australian rules footballer who played for the Carlton Football Club, North Melbourne Football Club, Collingwood Football Club and Sydney Swans in the Victorian Football League (VFL).
Barry Gill is a former Australian rules footballer who played for the Carlton Football Club in the Victorian Football League (VFL).
The 1973 VFL Grand Final was an Australian rules football game contested between Carlton and Richmond at the Melbourne Cricket Ground on 29 September 1973. It was the 77th annual Grand Final of the Victorian Football League (VFL), staged to determine the premiers for the 1973 VFL season. Although Carlton were the favourites to win, it was Richmond who would take the flag by 30 points, marking that club's eighth VFL/AFL premiership victory.
Garry Hamer is a former Australian rules footballer who played with Geelong in the Victorian Football League (VFL).
The 1945 VFL season was the 49th season in the Victorian Football League to be contested by the Carlton Football Club. Under coach Percy Bentley, Carlton recovered from a middling 3–6 start to win thirteen of its last fourteen games, winning the premiership by defeating South Melbourne in the Grand Final. It was the 7th senior VFL premiership in the club's history.