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The 1904 VFL season was the eighth season of the Victorian Football League (VFL), the highest-level senior Australian rules football competition in Victoria. The season featured eight clubs and ran from 7 May to 17 September, comprising a 17-round home-and-away season followed by a two-week finals series featuring the top four clubs.
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Kevin Joseph Murray MBE, commonly nicknamed "Bulldog", is a former Australian rules footballer who played for the Fitzroy Football Club in the Victorian Football League in 333 games over 18 seasons.
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Leo Francis Murphy was an Australian rules footballer who played for Hawthorn in the VFL during the 1930s. He was the father of Fitzroy great John Murphy, and grandfather of Carlton's Marc Murphy; the trio was the first father-son-grandson combination in VFL/AFL history to have each played 100 games.
The 1898 VFL Grand Final was an Australian rules football game contested between the Essendon Football Club and Fitzroy Football Club, held in Melbourne on 24 September 1898. The match was played to determine the premiers for the 1898 VFL season. Fitzroy won the match by 15 points. The game was played under atrocious ground conditions in front of 16,538 people at the Junction Oval.
Joe Murphy was an Australian rules footballer who played with Fitzroy in the Victorian Football League (VFL).
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Darren Bolden is a former Australian rules footballer who played for Fitzroy in the Victorian Football League (VFL) in 1986. He was recruited from the South Warrnambool Football Club in the Hampden Football League.
Darren Handley is a former Australian rules footballer who played with Collingwood and Fitzroy in the Victorian Football League (VFL).
Darren Louttit is a former Australian rules footballer who played with Melbourne and Fitzroy in the Victorian Football League (VFL).
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- ↑ Holmesby, Russell; Main, Jim (2011). The Encyclopedia of AFL Footballers: every AFL/VFL player since 1897 (9th ed.). Melbourne, Victoria: Bas Publishing. ISBN 978-1-921496-12-7 .
