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.
Punt Road Oval, also known by naming rights sponsorship as the Swinburne Centre, is an Australian rules football ground and former cricket oval located within the Yarra Park precinct of East Melbourne, Victoria, situated a few hundred metres to the east of the Melbourne Cricket Ground (MCG).
The Australian Football League (AFL) is the pre-eminent and only fully professional competition of Australian rules football. It was originally named the Victorian Football League (VFL) and was founded in 1896 as a breakaway competition from the Victorian Football Association (VFA), with its inaugural season in 1897. It changed its name to Australian Football League in 1990 after expanding its competition to other Australian states in the 1980s. The AFL publishes its Laws of Australian football, which are used, with variations, by other Australian football organisations.
Richard Champion is a former Australian rules footballer in the Australian Football League (AFL) and South Australian National Football Leagues (SANFL).
Barry Stoneham is a former Australian rules footballer who played for the Geelong Football Club between 1986 and 2000.
Herbert Edwin "Ted" Pool was an Australian rules footballer who played with Hawthorn in the Victorian Football League (VFL).
Proposed VFL/AFL clubs are clubs that at various points in the history of the Australian Football League have been or were distinct possibilities but either did not or have not yet eventuated. Due to their association with the national Australian competition, they have drawn a large amount of controversy and media attention.
Denis Scanlon is a former Australian rules footballer who played for Essendon in the Victorian Football League (VFL).
Glen Bartlett was the chairman of the Melbourne Football Club and a former Australian rules footballer who played for the West Coast Eagles in the Victorian Football League (VFL) and East Perth in the West Australian Football League (WAFL).
John Francis Scanlon was an Australian rules footballer who played for St Kilda in the Victorian Football League (VFL) during the 1930s.
Charles Skinner was an Australian rules footballer who played with North Melbourne in the Victorian Football League (VFL).
Frederick John Finch was an Australian rules footballer who played with Hawthorn in the Victorian Football League (VFL).
Thomas Scanlon was an Australian rules footballer who played with Collingwood in the Victorian Football League (VFL).
Glen Sampson is a former Australian rules footballer who played with Footscray in the Victorian Football League (VFL).
Glen Brown is a former Australian rules footballer who played with St Kilda in the Victorian Football League (VFL).
Glen Bow was an Australian rules footballer who played with Geelong in the Victorian Football League (VFL).
The 2016 Victorian Football League season is the 135th season of the Victorian Football Association/Victorian Football League Australian rules football competition.
Glen Thomas Parker is a former Australian rules footballer who played with South Melbourne in the Victorian Football League (VFL).
Bayley Fritsch is a professional Australian rules footballer playing for the Melbourne Football Club in the Australian Football League (AFL). A forward, 1.88 metres tall and weighing 84 kilograms (185 lb), Fritsch has the ability to play as both a high marking and small crumbing forward. Considered a late bloomer, he missed out on selection with the Eastern Ranges in the TAC Cup as a junior. After winning the league rising star in the Eastern Football League, he joined the Casey Scorpions in the Victorian Football League (VFL) where he spent three seasons. The 2017 VFL season saw him win the Fothergill–Round Medal, play for Victoria in the state representative match, be named in the VFL Team of the Year, and finish runner-up in the league-leading goalkicker and Casey's best and fairest award. His season saw him drafted by the Melbourne Football Club in the second round of the 2017 AFL draft and he made his AFL debut in the opening round of the 2018 AFL season. It was reported in 2022 that he is dating Natalie Perin.