Wunghnu Football Club

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Wunghnu Football Club
Full nameWunghnu Football Netball Club
NicknameThe Magpies
StripBlack and white vertical strips
Founded1874
League Picola & District Football League
Wunghnu Football Club
Names
Nickname(s)Magpies
Club details
Founded1874
Competition Picola & District Football League

The Wunghnu Football Club, nicknamed the Magpies, was an Australian rules football club in the small Goulburn Valley town of Wunghnu, Victoria, Australia.

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History

It was playing in the Picola & District Football League until it was forced in 2011 into recess by the VCFL because they were deemed to be uncompetitive. [1] The club was based in the small Victorian town of Wunghnu, which is approximately 200 km north of Melbourne. [2]

Wunghnu played from 1888 to 1930 in the Goulburn Valley Football Association, a forerunner to the Murray Football League.

From 1924 to 1928, the Wunghnu and Drumanure Football Clubs merged to form the Drumanure-Wunghnu side.

Wunghnu played in some of the minor competitions around Shepparton until it joined the Picola & District Football League in 1951.

Wunghnu celebrated its first premiership in the P&DFL in 1958; a hat-trick of premierships came a few years later, in 1964, 1965 and 1966. Their last Premiership was in 1973.

Players from the club recruited to play in the VFL/AFL include Geelong Football Club 1937 premiership player Joe Sellwood. [3]

Football Premierships

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References

  1. Wunghnu Football Club in recess
  2. Full Points Footy. "Picola & District Football League". Archived from the original on 24 April 2008. Retrieved 22 October 2008.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: unfit URL (link)
  3. Anderson, Jon (20 October 2007). "Sellwood mourned". Herald Sun . Retrieved 20 October 2007.
  4. "1931 - GVSEFA - Grand Final match review". Shepparton Advertiser. 5 October 1931. Retrieved 27 July 2020.