Australian rules football, officially known as Australian football, or simply called Aussie rules, football or footy, is a contact sport played between two teams of eighteen players on an oval-shaped field, often a modified cricket ground. Points are scored by kicking the oval-shaped ball between goal posts or between behind posts.
The Collingwood Football Club, nicknamed the Magpies or colloquially the Pies, is a professional Australian rules football club playing in the Australian Football League (AFL). Formed in 1892 in the then-working class Melbourne suburb of Collingwood, the club played in the Victorian Football Association (VFA) before joining seven other teams in 1896 to found the breakaway Victorian Football League. Originally based at Victoria Park, Collingwood now plays its home games at the Melbourne Cricket Ground with its training and administrative headquarters located at Olympic Park Oval and the Holden Centre.
The Australian Football League (AFL) is the pre-eminent professional 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. The league was founded as the Victorian Football League (VFL) as a breakaway from the previous Victorian Football Association (VFA), with its inaugural season commencing in 1897. Originally comprising only teams based in the Australian state of Victoria, the competition's name was changed to the Australian Football League for the 1990 season, after expanding to other states throughout the 1980s.
Plant was a key forward for Coburg during the club's dominant era in the late 1920s. Plant played for Coburg from 1924 until 1931, playing a total of 93 games and kicking 354 goals. He finished as the VFA's leading goalkicker in 1928 with 78 goals,[2] as well as finishing third in the association with tallies of 81 goals in 1927[3] and 74 goals in 1929,[4] and was a member of Coburg's 1926, 1927 and 1928 premiership teams. He was inducted into the club's hall of fame in 2017.[5]
Notes
↑ Holmesby, Russell; Main, Jim (2014). The Encyclopedia of AFL Footballers: every AFL/VFL player since 1897 (10th ed.). Seaford, Victoria: BAS Publishing. p.709. ISBN978-1-921496-32-5.
↑ Onlooker (10 September 1928). "Association Final – Coburg successful". The Argus. Melbourne, VIC. p.15.
↑ "The Goalkickers". The Australasian. CXXIII (4110). Melbourne, VIC. 15 October 1927. p.36.
↑ "The Goalkickers". The Argus. Melbourne, VIC. 10 October 1929. p.10.
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