The Essendon Football Club, nicknamed the Bombers or colloquially the Dons or Sash Wearers, is a professional Australian rules football club that plays in the Australian Football League, the game's pr
Essendon players and officials in 1872
Scenes from the 1891 VFA Premiership Match in which Essendon defeated Carlton
The Essendon side that won the 1897 VFL premiership
Dave Smith captained Essendon to premiership success in 1911.
The Australian Football League is the pre-eminent professional competition of Australian rules football. It was originally named the Victorian Football League and was founded in 1896 as a breakaway co
Essendon Football Club
…Football Club, nicknamed the Bombers or colloquially the Dons or Sash Wearers, is a professional Australian rules football club that plays in the Australian Football League (AFL), the game's premier competition. Formed by the McCracken family in their Ascot Vale home in 1872, the club played its first recorded game in 1873…
The final standing of the 1896 VFA ladder. Collingwood, Essendon, Fitzroy, Geelong, Melbourne, South Melbourne, Carlton and St Kilda would form the VFL the following year.
In 1924, Footscray, the premiers of the VFA, defeated Essendon, the VFL premiers, in the Championship of Victoria. The result played a large part in Footscray, Hawthorn and North Melbourne gaining entry into the VFL the following year.
Luke Hodge, the first pick in the 2001 AFL draft. Hodge has played the most VFL/AFL games of any number-one draft pick (346 games played), is the only number-one draft pick to win a Norm Smith Medal, is one of just five number-one draft picks to have won a premiership, and has won the most premierships of any number-one draft pick (4)