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Charlie Hammond
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Charles William Hammond was an Australian rules footballer who played with the Carlton Football Club in the Victorian Football League. Hammond is notable as the footballer in history to play in five Carlton premiership sides. Hammond played originally for Northcote in the Victorian Football Association, in 1905, he was recruited to the Carlton Football Club in the VFL, and made his debut in the opening game of the 1905 season. He played as a defender during his days at the club. Hammond was a player for Carlton in three successive seasons from 1906 to 1908. In 1910, he was one of a group of players who left Carlton in protest over the sacking of coach Jack Worrall and he shifted to the North Melbourne Football Club, which was then playing in the VFA. He played three seasons with North Melbourne, including a premiership in 1910 and he retired from North Melbourne at the end of 1912, and did not play any football in 1913. Carlton lured Hammond back to the club in 1914, where he played for a further five seasons, Hammond was part of two more premiership teams at Carlton, in 1914 and 1915. He remains the player to have won five premierships with the Carlton Football Club. He retired at the end of 1918, charlie Hammonds statistics from AFL Tables Blueseum profile
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Carlton Football Club
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The Carlton Football Club, nicknamed the Blues, is a professional Australian rules football club based in Melbourne, Victoria. Founded in 1864 in Carlton, an suburb of Melbourne, the club competes in the Australian Football League. Its nickname comes from the blue colour of its playing uniform. The club has fielded a team in the AFL Womens league since its establishment in 2017. Carlton has had a long and successful history, together with fierce rivals Collingwood, Richmond and Essendon, Carlton was considered historically to be one of the leagues Big Four clubs, and enjoys a healthy rivalry with all three others. The Carlton Football Club was formed in July 1864, in the early days, Carlton became particularly strong and having grown a large supporter base. It became a rival to the Melbourne Football Club in early competition, including the South Yarra Challenge Cup. Carlton won four premierships during the era in the 1870s. In 1877, Carlton became one of the clubs of the Victorian Football Association. He died of tuberculosis in 1883, aged 27, in spite of this, the club was invited to join the breakaway Victorian Football League competition in 1897. The club continued to struggle in early seasons of the new competition, Carltons fortunes improved significantly in 1902. The Board elected the highly respected former Fitzroy footballer and Australian test cricketer Jack Worrall, then the secretary of the Carlton Cricket Club, to the same position at the football club. As secretary, Worrall slowly took over the managing of the players, under Worralls guidance in the latter part of the 1902 season, Carltons on-field performances improved, and in 1903 he led Carlton to the finals for the first time. Carlton built a reputation and financial position, and was able to convince many great players to shift to the club from other clubs. Worrall led the club to its first three VFL premierships, won consecutively, in 1906,1907 and 1908, some players had become frustrated by low payments and hard training standards, and responded by refusing to train or even play matches. The club removed Worrall from the role, and after significant changes at board level after the 1909 season. Many players who had supported Worrall left the club at the end of the season, then, in 1910, several players were suspected of having taken bribes to fix matches, with two players both found guilty and suspended for 99 matches. Despite this backdrop, Carlton continued its strong form, reaching the 1909 and 1910 Grand Finals
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Coleman Medal
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The Coleman Medal is awarded yearly to the Australian Football League player who kicks the most goals in home-and-away matches in that year. It is named after John Coleman, the former Essendon full forward whose career of 537 goals in 98 games was cut short by injury. Although only instituted in 1981, retrospective Coleman Medals were presented in 2004, winners prior to that were retrospectively awarded Leading Goalkicker Medals. The winners of the Coleman Medal are, Awarded prior to 1955 to the scorer of most goals in the home, Leading goalkickers, accessed 17 March 2011
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Collingwood Football Club
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The Collingwood Football Club, nicknamed the Magpies or less formally the Pies, is an Australian rules football club which plays in the Australian Football League. This spike in membership registration can mainly be attributed to the winning of the 2010 AFL Premiership and this record was again broken in 2013, with club reaching a new high of 80,000 members. Collingwood is regarded as one of Australias most popular clubs, being the highest attended, Collingwoods home guernsey consists of black and white stripes, matching the colours of an Australian magpie. Throughout its history, the club has developed rivalries with cross-town Melbourne based clubs Carlton, Richmond, Essendon, historically one of the most successful clubs in the league, Collingwood has won 15 VFL/AFL premierships, the third-most of any team. Collingwood has played in a record 43 grand finals, winning 15, the club fields a seconds team in the Victorian Football League and a womens team in the AFL Womens competition. It also owns and operates a team in the National Netball League. The Collingwood Football Club was established on 12 February 1892, Collingwood played its first game in the Victorian Football Association against Carlton on 7 May 1892. The club won the VFA Premiership in 1896, in 1897, Collingwood, along with fellow VFA clubs Fitzroy, Melbourne, St Kilda, Carlton, Essendon, South Melbourne and Geelong split from the VFA and formed the Victorian Football League. Collingwood won its first premiership in 1902, defeating Essendon by 33 points, Collingwood was the most successful club of the 1920s and 1930s, appearing in 13 out of a possible 20 Grand Finals during the period. Collingwood were premiers six times during this time, including four consecutive premierships between 1927 and 1930, a VFL/AFL record, and two premierships in 1935 and 1936. The clubs coach during this period was Jock McHale, who served as coach from 1912 to 1949, Collingwood lost two Grand Finals to Melbourne in this decade, but bounced back to win premierships in 1953 and 1958. Collingwoods 1958 premiership is much cherished by the club as it prevented Melbourne from equalling Collingwoods record four premierships in a row, the 1958 premiership was however to be Collingwoods last for 32 years, as the club was to suffer a string of Grand Final defeats in coming decades. A string of eight Grand Final losses, often by narrow margins, between 1960 and 1981 gave rise to a perception that the club was prone to choking, a phenomenon wittily dubbed Colliwobbles. Whether this perception is accurate remains a subject of debate, however, Lou Richards ceremoniously buried the Colliwobbles at Victoria Park after the clubs 1990 premiership. Collingwood made a return to the finals in 2006, but were defeated by the Western Bulldogs by 41 points, having earned a preliminary final against Geelong, the Pies challenged the eventual premiers, only to fall short by five points. Nathan Buckley would announce his retirement at seasons end after playing just five games in 2007 due to injury, Collingwood finished eighth in 2008 and were assigned an away final against Adelaide at AAMI Stadium. After at one point trailing in the match, the Pies went on to end Adelaides season, having defeated the Saints in both their regular season meetings, the Pies lost convincingly, ending their 2008 season. The 2009 season saw Collingwood finish inside the top-four for the first time since 2003, but the season ended abruptly for the Magpies, with an 73-point loss to the Cats
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1907 VFL season
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The 1907 Victorian Football League season was the 11th season of the elite Australian rules football competition. Each team played each other twice in a season of 14 rounds. Once the 14 round home-and-away season had finished, the 1907 VFL Premiers were determined by the specific format, Carlton defeated South Melbourne 6.14 to 6.9. The 1907 VFL Premiership team was Carlton, the VFLs leading goalkicker was Dick Lee of Collingwood with 47 goals. Essendon took the spoon in 1907. The VFL played two matches against Ballarat and Bendigo, winning both matches. It was the first such match against Bendigo, due to the Special football train arriving late, the start of the third match between Fitzroy and Geelong at Brunswick Street Oval was delayed by twenty minutes. In round 6, St. Kilda defeated Melbourne 15.18 to 7.9, in Round 8, Fitzroy kicked eleven goals without a behind against Collingwood, before three misses in the last quarter. They did not score in the second and third quarters after kicking 7.0 in the first quarter. In Round 11, Geelong defeated St. Kilda despite having ten fewer scoring shots, before this and they repeated the feat of winning with ten fewer shots against Collingwood in the last round. During that last match, Collingwood succumbed to Geelong despite being 38 points ahead at three quarter time, this record was not beaten until 1936. The VFL acquiesced to this request, and the ground was watered, the ensuing Premiership final, in the 1907 pre-season, then VFA team Richmond played a practice match against VFL team Geelong at Corio Oval, in direct defiance of a VFA edict. St Kilda qualify for their first VFL Finals appearance, every Game Ever Played, VFL/AFL Results 1897-1997, Viking Books,1998. ISBN 0-670-86814-01907 Season - AFL Tables
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1909 VFL season
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The 1909 Victorian Football League season was the 13th season of the elite Australian rules football competition. Each team played each other twice in a season of 18 rounds. Once the 18 round home-and-away season had finished, the 1909 VFL Premiers were determined by the specific format and this was South Melbournes first premiership after finishing runner up twice previously. The 1909 VFL Premiership team was South Melbourne, the VFLs leading goalkicker was Dick Lee of Collingwood with 58 goals. St Kilda took the spoon in 1909. Later in 1909, Burns was suspended for life after being found guilty of a charge, however. This is the only such forfeiture to have lasted in senior VFL/AFL history, in Round 7 against Geelong, Harry Brereton of Melbourne, in only his seventh game, became the first player to kick nine or more goals in a match since Jim McShane in 1899. A Round 8 match between Fitzroy and Melbourne was marred by incidents of foul play. Spectators were involved in a brawl at the end of the game. The Round 13 match between Carlton and Geelong saw the score an aggregate of 29.26, the highest in VFL history to that time. There were riots in the crowd after the Round 13 match between South Melbourne and Fitzroy, an imminent on-field brawl between players from Collingwood and South Melbourne in their Round 14 match was averted when the appearance of a policeman on the ground calmed both teams down. The Round 15 match between St Kilda and Geelong is the last VFL/AFL game as of 2012 in which no goals were scored in the second half, on a flooded Junction Oval, St Kilda kicked 0.7 to Geelongs 0.5 after half time. Universitys draw with Collingwood in Round 16 was the closest that the Students got to defeating the Magpies in a League match, a Collingwood spectator jumped the fence at the Round 18 match against Melbourne and punched a Melbourne player. Harper, ran onto the field and made a citizens arrest, the Argus newspaper published the height, weight and occupation of each player in the finals for the first time. 1909 VFL Grand Final Hogan, P, the Tigers Of Old, The Richmond Football Club,1996. ISBN 0-646-18748-1 Maplestone, M. Flying Higher, History of the Essendon Football Club 1872-1996, ISBN 0-9591740-2-8 Rogers, S. & Brown, A. Every Game Ever Played, VFL/AFL Results 1897-1997, Viking Books,1998, ISBN 0-670-86814-01909 Season - AFL Tables
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Richmond Football Club
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The Richmond Football Club, nicknamed the Tigers, is an Australian rules football club playing in the Australian Football League. The club has won ten premierships since joining the competition in 1908, the club is currently ranked sixth in the competition for premierships won. Prior to 1965 the club played games at Punt Road Oval. Based in a traditionally working-class area, Richmond has long-standing rivalries with cross-town Melbourne-based clubs, Collingwood, the club has been home to four AFL Hall of Fame Legends, Ian Stewart, Kevin Bartlett, Royce Hart and Jack Dyer. A team of playing as Richmond is mentioned by the newspapers in the first years of Australian football. Tom Wills, one of the founders, was the clubs inaugural secretary and captain. This loosely organised group has no continuity to the present club, a number of teams formed in the Richmond area during the games rapid expansion of the 1870s and early 1880s. However, all played at a level and it was considered an anomaly that Richmond, one of Melbournes biggest locales. The wait ended when the Richmond Football Club was officially formed at the Royal Hotel in Richmond on 20 February 1885, a successful application for immediate admission to the Victorian Football Association followed. The club shared the Punt Road Oval with the Richmond Cricket Club, at first the team wore a blue uniform. One of the most important features of a nineteenth-century footballers uniform was his headgear, and Richmond opted for yellow and black striped caps, after a couple of years, yellow and black stripes replaced blue as the colours of the teams guernseys. The team was called the Richmondites, the Wasps or, most commonly. During the late 1880s, the VFA expanded rapidly, a booming economy and large numbers of immigrants made Melbourne the largest city in the Australian colonies. The city was mad with football and many tried to get admission to the VFA. Richmond struggled to make an impression and after a promising season in 1888. As the local economy slipped into depression in the early 1890s and the crowds began to dwindle. Richmond were not considered part of elite group, who usually voted together as a block at VFA meetings. A lack of commitment and focused effort was holding the Tigers back, in 1896, Richmond walked off the field in a match with South Melbourne at half time when they were a long way behind on a very wet day to protest the umpiring. Later in the season, the Tigers had their score annulled against Essendon when it was discovered that they had too many men on the ground, in the closing three weeks of the season, Richmonds gate takings amounted to just five pounds
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Melbourne University Football Club
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Melbourne University Football Club, often known simply as University, is an Australian rules football club, representing the Blacks, Blues and MUGARS. The club achieved prominence by being a member of Victorias elite competition in the early 20th century, University was founded in 1859 by students and graduates of the University of Melbourne. The first report of the university participating in a match was against St Kilda in June 1859, according to ‘Gymnastic’, writing in the sporting newspaper Bells Life in Victoria, the ‘long pending match’ finally came off between two teams of 15. University was captained by a player called Phillips and St Kilda emerged the winners and that same year it played against teams from Albert-park, Carlton, Melbourne, Royal Park and South Yarra. In 1861, University defeated Melbourne to win the first ever trophy for Australian football, during the 1870s, the club played in the Second Twenties competition, one level lower than the main competition, the South Yarra Challenge Cup. From 1885 to 1888, University played in the VFA which at the time was the major governing body. On 4 October 1907 the eight founding clubs of the VFL voted unanimously to include University in the league as its ninth team, richmond Football Club became the 10th team two weeks later. The club was nicknamed The Students, The Professors and The Shop, the players wore a black guernsey with a blue chevron and blue collars and cuffs, black and blue socks and an optional black and blue cap. Players had to have matriculated or hold a degree to be eligible to play in the team. The club was not particularly successful, it never finished higher than sixth in the ten-team competition and it finished last in the competition from 1911 to 1914, and lost its last 51 games in a row. In total, it played 126 games for 27 wins,2 draws and 97 losses between 1908 and 1914, as a consequence, the club withdrew from the VFL at the end of 1914. Bert Hurrey played the most amount of games for the club, the following is a list of coaches to have coached the club in the VFL. P = Played W = Won L = Lost D = Drew W% = Win percentage In the summer of 1919, after the War, Melbourne University began to rebuild its football involvement. Deciding not to reapply for a position in the VFL, they were requested by the VFL to supply two teams to the newly formed VFL Reserves competition, or the Victorian Junior Football League. These two teams were initially called University A and B, but soon known as University Blues and University Blacks. Both contested the 1921 MAFA Grand Final, with the Blacks winning what to date is the grand final the two teams have contested in the MAFA or VAFA. Melbourne University students and alumni continue to maintain their involvement in football through the Blues, the Blues and Blacks play in the Victorian Amateur Football Association, and have been a perennial power in the highest division of a high-standard amateur competition. Up until the 1950s, the Blacks were the leading University side as well as one of the dominant sides in the Amateur competition, winning 11 A Section premierships by 1949
