Related Research Articles
Malcolm Jack Blight AM is a former Australian rules footballer who played for and coached the North Melbourne Football Club in the Victorian Football League (VFL) and Woodville Football Club in the South Australian National Football League (SANFL). He also coached the Geelong Football Club, Adelaide Football Club and St Kilda Football Club.
The Coleman Medal is an Australian rules football award given annually to the Australian Football League (AFL) player who kicks the most goals in the home-and-away season. It is named after John Coleman, a full forward and Australian Football Hall of Fame Legend who scored 537 goals in 98 games for Essendon. The award was first presented in 1981 to Richmond's Michael Roach, who scored 86 goals for the season. At the time, the competition was known as the Victorian Football League (VFL); it would become the AFL in 1990.
Alexander Eason was an Australian rules football player, coach and administrator in the Victorian Football League and Victorian Football Association.
Michael "Mick" Conlan is a former Australian rules footballer who played in the Victorian Football League (VFL).
William Goggin is a former Australian rules footballer who played for the Geelong Football Club in the Victorian Football League (VFL). He later coached Geelong and also the Footscray Football Club.
In the Australian state of Victoria, the sport of Australian rules football is the most popular football code. The game's popularity in Victoria stems from its origins in Melbourne in the 1850s, with the first club and the first league both based in the city. Ten of the eighteen teams participating in the Australian Football League (AFL) are based in Victoria, as a result of the league's origins as the Victorian Football League (VFL). The Melbourne Cricket Ground, with a capacity of 100,024 people, is considered the "spiritual home" of the game, and hosts the sport's largest event, the AFL Grand Final, yearly.
The 1989 Victorian Football League season was the 93rd season of the elite Australian rules football competition. It was also the last season for the competition under its original name as it was renamed the Australian Football League in 1990.
The 1925 Victorian Football League season was the 29th season of the Australian rules football competition. The premiership was won by the Geelong Football Club, after it defeated Collingwood by ten points in the Grand Final.
Ian Dunstan is a former Australian rules footballer who played for the Footscray Football Club and the North Melbourne Football Club in the Victorian Football League (VFL).
The Geelong Amateur Football & Netball Club, nicknamed the Ammos', is an Australian rules football and netball club situated in the regional city of Geelong, Victoria, Australia.
Percy Ellingsen was an Australian rules footballer who played for Richmond, Melbourne and Geelong in the Victorian Football League (VFL).
Stuart Nicol is a former Australian rules footballer who played for Footscray in the Victorian Football League (VFL) during the late 1980s.
Philip James Smith was an Australian rules footballer who played for the Geelong Football Club in the Victorian Football League (VFL), the West Perth Football Club in the West Australian National Football League (WANFL) and the Woodville Football Club in the South Australian National Football League (SANFL).
Andrew Taylor is a former Australian rules footballer who played with Footscray and the Brisbane Bears in the Victorian/Australian Football League (VFL/AFL), and Woodville and Woodville West Torrens in the South Australian National Football League.
The AFL Australian Football League is the top professional Australian rules football league in the world. The league consists of eighteen teams: nine based in the city of Melbourne, one from regional Victoria, and eight based in other Australian states. The reason for this unbalanced geographic distribution lies in the history of the league, which was based solely within Victoria from the time it was established in 1897, until the time the league expanded through the addition of clubs from interstate to the existing teams starting in the 1980s; until this expansion, the league was known as the VFL (Victorian Football League).
Barry Vincent Ion is a former Australian rules footballer and radio personality. He played with Footscray in the Victorian Football League (VFL), Yarraville in the Victorian Football Association (VFA), and Woodville in the South Australian National Football League (SANFL). He became a well known radio personality in Adelaide and Sydney.
Max Parker is a former Australian rules footballer who played for Woodville in the South Australian National Football League (SANFL). He also had stints at Footscray in the Victorian Football League (VFL) and with North Adelaide.
Lynton Fitzpatrick is a former Australian rules footballer who played with Footscray in the Victorian Football League (VFL).
Richard "Ricky" Browne is a former Australian rules footballer who played with Geelong in the Victorian Football League (VFL).
Eric Nicholls is a former Australian rules footballer who played with Geelong in the Victorian Football League (VFL).
References
- 1 2 "AUSTRALIAN FOOTBALL Hawthorn has confidence in facing up to Carlton". The Canberra Times . 23 April 1977. p. 40. Retrieved 9 July 2014– via National Library of Australia.
- ↑ Holmesby, Russell; Main, Jim (2007). The Encyclopedia Of AFL Footballers. BAS Publishing. ISBN 9781920910785.
- 1 2 "Graeme Linke". AFL Tables.
- ↑ "VAFA Annual Report - 2007" (PDF). Victorian Amateur Football Association. Archived from the original (PDF) on 17 January 2013. (PDF)