Collegians Football Club

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Collegians Football Club
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Names
Full nameCollegians Football Club
Nickname(s)Lions
Club details
Founded1892;132 years ago (1892)
Colours  
Competition VAFA
CoachJared Rivers
Premierships1892, 1896, 1898, 1899, 1902, 1904, 1926, 1936, 1937, 1956 1957, 1958, 1959, 1961, 1986, 1992, 1993, 2006 2011, 2012, 2023.
Ground(s) Harry Trott Oval (Albert Park)
Uniforms
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Kit shorts goldsides.png
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Other information
Official website collegiansfc.com.au
Old Collegians vs Melbourne University Blacks at Collegians' home ground (Albert Park), 2008 Collegians vs university blues.jpg
Old Collegians vs Melbourne University Blacks at Collegians' home ground (Albert Park), 2008

Collegians Football Club, nicknamed the Lions, is an Australian rules football club based in the Melbourne suburb of Albert Park.

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Formed in 1892, it is the second-oldest club in the Victorian Amateur Football Association (VAFA), after Melbourne University Football Club, although Collegians is the only present-day club that competed in the inaugural VAFA season. [1]

As of 2024, the club's men's and women's teams both compete in the Premier Division of the VAFA and VAFA Women's (VAFAW) respectively.

History

In 1891, Lawrence Adamson established a Wesley College Old Boys' XVIII, which formally became Collegians Football Club in 1892. [2] Adamson, who was for thirty years the Headmaster of Wesley College, was the President of the club for its first forty years.

In 1892, Adamson established the Metropolitan Junior Football Association (MJFA), of which he was president for 37 years, which later was renamed to the VAFA. [2] Collegians entered a "2nd 20" (reserves) team in the inaugural season, while the senior team appears to have been in local schoolboy competitions. [3] The seniors moved to the MJFA the following year in 1893 and have remained there ever since. [4]

Collegian's introduced the clubs first women's football team in 2017, [5] and added a second women's team in 2018. The club fields three senior men's teams, two senior women's teams and an Under 19's team. [6]

Premierships

A Section

B Section

Club song

The club's theme song is based on the first verse and chorus of "The Old Collegians Song", which appears in the Wesley College Songbook in all editions from 1893. [7] The lyrics were written by Lawrence Arthur Adamson set to the tune of a traditional Irish Folk Tune, "Irish Jaunting Car", and the later tune "The Bonnie Blue Flag", a song from the Confederacy during the American Civil War. [8] The original lyrics refer to the interim school colours "Blue and White", which returned to "Gold and Purple" at the end of 1902. [7]

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References

  1. ↑ "VAFA Collegians Profile". vafa.com.au. 8 September 2021. Archived from the original on 29 January 2016.
  2. 1 2 "Collegians". History of Australian Footy. Full Points Footy. Archived from the original on 30 August 2010. Retrieved 16 October 2010.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: unfit URL (link)
  3. ↑ "FOOTBALL". The Argus. 8 June 1892. p. 10. Retrieved 5 August 2024.
  4. ↑ "Collegians Football Club (Vic)". Footypedia. Archived from the original on 26 July 2024. Retrieved 5 August 2024.
  5. ↑ "Women's football". Old Wesley Collegians Association. January 2019. Archived from the original on 23 October 2020.
  6. ↑ "Collegians Football Club information page". VAFA. Archived from the original on 29 January 2016.
  7. 1 2 Wesley College (2009). Wesley College Song Book 2009. Wesley College, Melbourne.
  8. ↑ "Civil War Music:The Bonnie Blue Flag". American Battlefield Trust. Retrieved 2 April 2023.
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