The Carlton Football Club, nicknamed the Blues, is a professional Australian rules football club based in the inner-Melbourne suburb of Carlton North, Victoria. Founded in 1864, the club competes in the Australian Football League, and was one of the competition's eight inaugural member clubs in 1896.
Tasmania Football Club, commonly known as the Tasmanian Devils, was an Australian rules football club which competed in the Victorian Football League in Australia. Formed in 2001, it was the youngest and the only non-Victorian club in the league. The club was based in the state of Tasmania at Bellerive Oval and was run by AFL Tasmania. At the end of the 2008 season, AFL Tasmania decided to withdraw the Devils from the VFL competition in favour of restarting a new Tasmanian league encompassing the entire state.
The 1898 Victorian Football League season was the second season of the elite Australian rules football competition.
Ian James Nankervis is a former Australian rules footballer for the Geelong Football Club in the Victorian Football League (VFL). Nankervis played for Geelong for 17 seasons and was captain from 1978 to 1981, and again in 1983. Nankervis held the record of most senior level games for Geelong with 325 VFL games. Nankervis also represented Victoria at state level on 12 occasions.
Chris Bond is a former Australian rules footballer who played as a rover for the Carlton, Richmond and Fremantle Football Clubs in the Australian Football League (AFL). Since retiring as a player he has coached Werribee in the Victorian Football League (VFL) and has also been an assistant coach for the Western Bulldogs. He is currently the football operations manager at Fremantle.
The Australian Football League (AFL) is the pre-eminent and only fully professional men's 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. Originally known as the Victorian Football League (VFL), it was founded in 1896 as a breakaway competition from the Victorian Football Association (VFA), with its inaugural season commencing the following year. The VFL, aiming to become a national competition, began expanding beyond Victoria to other Australian states in the 1980s, and changed its name to the AFL in 1990.
The 1958 Victorian Football League season was the 62nd season of the elite Australian rules football competition.
The 1971 Victorian Football League season was the 75th season of the elite Australian rules football competition.
Ian Law is a former Australian rules footballer who played for the Hawthorn Football Club in the Victorian Football League (VFL).
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.
Ian Malcolm Dargie is a former Australian rules footballer who played for St Kilda and West Coast in the Australian Football League (AFL) and Subiaco in the West Australian Football League (WAFL) during the 1980s and 1990s.
Mark Clayson Gardner was an Australian rules footballer who played with Melbourne and University in the Victorian Football League (VFL). He was the younger brother of Corrie Gardner and Eric Gardner.
The 1900 VFL Grand Final was an Australian rules football game contested between the Melbourne Football Club and Fitzroy Football Club, held at the East Melbourne Cricket Ground in Melbourne on 22 September 1900. It was the 3rd annual Grand Final of the Victorian Football League, staged to determine the premiers for the 1900 VFL season. The match, attended by 20,181 spectators, was won by Melbourne by a margin of 4 points.
Ian Desmond Nankervis is a former Australian rules footballer who played with Carlton in the Victorian Football League (VFL).
Ian McGuinness is a former Australian rules footballer who played with Melbourne and Fitzroy in the Victorian Football League (VFL).
Simon Clark is a former Australian rules footballer who played with Richmond in the Victorian Football League (VFL).
Norman Edward Gardner was an Australian rules footballer who played with Footscray in the Victorian Football League (VFL).
John Gardner is a former Australian rules footballer who played with Hawthorn in the Victorian Football League (VFL).
Leslie Harry Gardner was an Australian rules footballer who played with St Kilda in the Victorian Football League (VFL).
Harry Gardner was an Australian rules footballer who played with South Melbourne in the Victorian Football League (VFL).