History
The Dimboola FC was founded in 1881 and in 1882 they played a match against the Horsham Union FC in Horsham, which resulted in a draw. [2] [3]
In 1921, Dimboola FC played in two local football competitions, the Western Wimmera FA (Wednesday competition) and the Northern Wimmera FA (Saturday competition) and remarkably Dimboola won both association premierships. Details below.
Dimboola joined the Wimmera District Football League in 1923 [4] and former Geelong player, Bert Rankin was appointed as captain-coach in 1924. [5]
In 1932 during the height of the Great depression the small town clubs suffering from financial pressures tried to get the league to change the way the gate taking were distributed to the clubs. The larger town clubs, knowing that they would be disadvantaged, blocked the motion. Nhill and Dimboola both went into recess.
In 1933 Dimboola was back, it formed the Mid Wimmera FL with Minyip, Murtoa, Nhill and Rupanyip. It won the 1933 and 1935 premierships.
While the WDFL approached the Ballarat Football League to merge hoping that greater interest and better football would cause larger gate takings, so in 1934 the Wimmera Football League and the Ballarat Football League merged to form the Ballarat Wimmera FL.
After three years in which the Wimmera clubs faced with greater costs and constantly losing on the footy field, feelers were put out to the smaller clubs, now playing in the Mid Wimmera FL. A peace deal was settled in September 1936 and the Wimmera Football League was reformed in 1937 making it a nine team competition, with former Essendon player, Alan Arthur appointed as captain-coach in 1937. [6]
The local Marks aboriginal family were all outstanding footballers and cricketers, [7] with Alf Senior and Fisher Marks playing in the early 1900's and Alf's son, Alf Junior, was the leading goal kicker in the Wimmera Football League in 19??. [8] [9] [10]
Leading Goalkicker
Dimboola played in the grand final in 1927, 1928, 1929 and 1930, winning premierships in 1928 and 1929, thanks to the goalkicking feats of Jimmy Lawson.
- Most goals in a match
In 1927, Dimboola's champion forward, Jimmy Lawson kicked 20 goals against Murtoa. [32] 18 year old Lawson also kicked 11 goals on debut for Dimboola in the last game of the year in 1925. [33] Lawson had also kicked 60 goals for Pimpinio FC in 1925. [34]
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