Lakeside Stadium
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Lakeside Stadium is an Australian sports arena in the South Melbourne suburb of Albert Park. Comprising an athletics track and soccer stadium, it currently serves as the home ground and administrative
South Melbourne and the touring British Lions in front of the grandstand at the South Melbourne Cricket Ground in 1888. South Melbourne won 7 goals to 3.
The 1926 grandstand prior to Lakeside Stadium redevelopment
Aerial view of Lakeside Stadium prior to 2011 redevelopment
Fitzroy Football Club
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The Fitzroy Football Club is an Australian rules football club currently competing in the Victorian Amateur Football Association. Formed in 1883 to represent the inner-Melbourne municipality of Fitzro
Brunswick Hotel (now trading as the Old Colonial Inn), where the club was founded in 1883
In 1895 Tom Banks captained Fitzroy to its first and only VFA premiership. He was also one of the first footballers of African descent to play in the VFL.
1901 portrait of Geoff Moriarty, who played in two VFL premierships for Fitzroy before going on to become the club's first official coach in 1911. His son Jack also played for Fitzroy.
Haydn Bunton Sr., three-time Brownlow Medal winner