The Geelong Football Club, nicknamed the Geelong Cats, is a professional Australian rules football club based in Geelong, Victoria. The club competes in the Australian Football League (AFL), the sport's premier competition.
Allen John Jakovich is a retired Australian rules football player. Jakovich was a prolific full forward and is notable for kicking 208 goals in his 54 Australian Football League matches, an average of 3.85 per game, for Melbourne and Footscray. He and his younger brother, Glen Jakovich, both began their AFL careers in the 1990 AFL Draft.
Brian Royal is a former Australian rules footballer who played for the Footscray Football Club in the Australian Football League (AFL).
Reginald Joseph Hickey was an Australian rules footballer who was a player, the captain, the captain-coach, and the non-playing coach for the Geelong Football Club in the Victorian Football League (VFL) between 1928 and 1940 (player), and between 1949 and 1959 (non-player).
The Australian Football League (AFL) is the pre-eminent and only fully professional men's competition of Australian rules football. Through the AFL Commission, the AFL also serves as the sport's governing body, and is responsible for controlling the laws of the game. Originally known as the Victorian Football League (VFL), it was founded in 1896 as a breakaway competition from the Victorian Football Association (VFA), with its inaugural season commencing the following year. The VFL, aiming to become a national competition, began expanding beyond Victoria to other Australian states in the 1980s, and changed its name to the AFL in 1990.
Brian Francis Peake OAM is a former Australian rules footballer. He played for East Fremantle and Perth in the West Australian Football League (WAFL) and Geelong in the Victorian Football League (VFL). He also played State of Origin football for Western Australia from 1978 to 1987, captaining the side in 1979, 1980, 1986 and 1987. Peake was awarded the Medal of the Order of Australia in 1990, was inducted into the West Australian Football Hall of Fame in 2004, and inducted into the Australian Football Hall of Fame in 2013.
The 1986 Victorian Football League season was the 90th season of the elite Australian rules football competition.
Victor George Belcher was an Australian rules footballer, coach and umpire in the (then) Victorian Football League.
Don W. Scott is a former Australian rules footballer who represented Hawthorn in the Victorian Football League (VFL) during the 1960s and 1970s.
The 1963 Victorian Football League season was the 67th season of the elite Australian rules football competition.
John Peck was an Australian rules footballer, who played in the Victorian Football League (VFL).
Henry James Davie was an Australian rules footballer who played for Melbourne and Carlton in the Victorian Football League (VFL) during the 1920s.
Bert Joseph James "Poddy" Davie was an Australian sportsman who represented Tasmania and Victoria at first-class cricket and played Australian rules football with Geelong in the Victorian Football League (VFL).
Brian Randall was an Australian rules footballer who played in the VFL from 1941 to 1945 for the Richmond Football Club.
Brian J. Winton is a former Australian rules footballer who played with Richmond, Essendon and St Kilda in the Victorian Football League (VFL).
Samuel Gordon Davie was an Australian rules footballer who played with Collingwood in the Victorian Football League (VFL).
Brian McCarthy is a former Australian rules footballer who played with St Kilda in the Victorian Football League (VFL).
Brian Wicks is a former Australian rules footballer who played with Fitzroy and North Melbourne in the Victorian Football League (VFL).
Jack Davie was an Australian rules footballer who played with Geelong in the Victorian Football League (VFL).