Aitken was a strongly built and pacy defender, winning the Rookie of the Year award in his debut season in 1987. He was also a premiership player that year. He moved to St Kilda for the 1993 season but only managed 5 games.
He was the founder of Vic Cric in 1993, a program for young children learning skills in cricket and how to play the game. Aitken was also the founder of Vic Footy, an Australian Rules Football program similar to Vic Cricket.
He is currently the coach of the Yarra Junior Football League team, Kew Colts Kangaroos and Kew Rovers. He is also a great contributor to these club in all respects.
The St Kilda Football Club, nicknamed the Saints, is an Australian rules football club based in Melbourne, Victoria. The club plays in the Australian Football League (AFL), the sport's premier league.
Robert Jeffrey Harvey is an Australian rules football coach and former player. He is currently an assistant coach for the Hawthorn Football Club in the Australian Football League. As a player he played his entire career with the St Kilda Football Club in the Australian Football League. He was previously the interim head coach of the Collingwood Football Club.
Haydn William Bunton was an Australian rules footballer who represented Fitzroy in the Victorian Football League (VFL), Subiaco in the West Australian Football League (WAFL), and Port Adelaide in the South Australian National Football League (SANFL) during the 1930s and 1940s.
The 1906 Victorian Football League season was the 10th season of the elite Australian rules football competition.
James Gwilt is a former professional Australian rules footballer who played with the St Kilda Football Club and the Essendon Football Club in the Australian Football League (AFL).
Wellesley Hastings "Wels" Eicke was an Australian rules footballer in the Victorian Football League (VFL).
Moorabbin Oval, also known by its sponsorship name of RSEA Safety Park, is an Australian rules football ground in the city of Melbourne, Victoria, Australia at Linton Street in the suburb of Moorabbin.
The WT Peterson Community Oval, best known as the Brunswick Street Oval and also as the Fitzroy Cricket Ground, is a cricket and Australian rules football ground located in Edinburgh Gardens in Fitzroy North, Victoria. The ground was the home of Fitzroy Football Club in the Victorian Football Association from 1883 to 1897, and the home of the club in the Victorian Football League from 1897 until 1966, with the last game being played there on Saturday 20 August 1966 against St Kilda, a game which the Lions lost by 84 points. Fitzroy then moved to Princes Park sharing the ground with Carlton Football Club between 1967 and 1969 before playing its home games at the Junction Oval in St Kilda from 1970.
Prahran Assumption Football Club, nicknamed The Two Blues, is an Australian rules football club based at Toorak Park in Orrong Road between High Street and Malvern Road, Armadale, in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia. The club is currently in Division 1 of the Victorian Amateur Football Association (VAFA). The nickname Two Blues comes from the club uniform which has been royal blue and sky blue since the club formed in 1886.
Toorak Park is a cricket and Australian rules football arena in the Melbourne suburb of Armadale, Victoria, Australia. It is the home ground of the Prahran Football Club and Old Xaverians Football Club of the Victorian Amateur Football Association (VAFA) and Prahran Cricket Club, which plays in the Victorian Premier Cricket competition. The current capacity of the venue is 15,000.
Harold Vivian "Vic" Cumberland, also known as Harry Cumberland, was an Australian rules footballer in the Victorian Football League (VFL) and the South Australian National Football League (SANFL).
Australian rules football began its evolution in Melbourne, Australia about 1858. The origins of Australian football before 1858 are still the subject of much debate, as there were a multitude of football games in Britain, Europe, Ireland and Australia whose rules influenced the early football games played in Melbourne.
The 1993 Australian Football League season was the 97th season of the elite Australian rules football competition and the 4th under the name 'Australian Football League', having switched from 'Victorian Football League' after 1989.
The 1920 Victorian Football League season was the 24th season of the elite Australian rules football competition.
Ian Charles Cooper is a former Australian rules footballer who played for St Kilda in the Victorian Football League during the 1960s. In a retrospective poll by a team of experts, Cooper was voted best afield in the 1966 VFL Grand Final, which St Kilda won. It was St Kilda's first and only VFL/AFL premiership by a margin of one point over Collingwood.
George Albert Young is a former Australian rules footballer who played with St Kilda in the Victorian Football League (VFL) and Subiaco in the West Australian National Football League (WANFL) during the 1970s.
The 1877 Victorian Football Association season was the first in which the Australian rules football competition in Victoria was run under a properly constituted administrative body. The Association was formed with the view to governing the sport via a collective body, made up of delegates representing the clubs. It was the second such body to have been formed; the South Australian National Football League having been formed just 17 days prior to the VFA.
The 1888 Victorian Football Association season was the 12th season of the Australian rules football competition.
Allan Robert Charles "Bob" McLean was an Australian rules footballer who played for Port Adelaide and Norwood in the South Australian National Football League (SANFL) and St Kilda in the Victorian Football League (VFL). Affectionately referred to as "Big Bob" McLean, he later became a long-serving football administrator in South Australia. He was also a good cricketer, representing South Australia in the Sheffield Shield and topped the Australian bowling and batting averages in 1947.
Samuel Luke Dunell is an Australian rules football player who played for the St Kilda Football Club in the Australian Football League (AFL) and currently plays for Williamstown in the Victorian Football League (VFL) where he played over 100 games for them kicking 240 goals. He played for Victoria against SA and was twice named in the VFL Team of the Year. He finished 2nd in the VFL Liston trophy in 2015 capping off the season with an all conquering premiership win against Hawthorn. At one stage he was considered the best player in the VFL.
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