Resource VFA/VFL Jumpers

[wizardwaffle]

This thread is to display the jumpers of the Victorian Football Association (VFA) 1877 - 1995
which is now known as the Victorian Football League (VFL) since 1996.

 

[wizardwaffle]

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Box Hill Hawks

Casey Demons

Coburg Football Club - Lions

Collingwood Football Club - Magpies

Essendon Football Club - Bombers

Footscray Football Club - Bulldogs

Geelong Cats

North Ballarat Football Club - Roosters

Northern Blues

Port Melbourne Football Club - Borough

Richmond Football Club - Tigers

Sandringham Football Club - Zebras

Werribee Football Club - Tigers

Williamstown Football Club - Seagulls

 

[wizardwaffle]

Clubs that left after the change over to the VFL (1995 onwards)
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Frankston Football Club - Dolphins

Bendigo Football Club - Gold

Carlton Football Club - Blues

Gold Coast Football Club - Suns

Murray Kangaroos

Tasmanian Football Club - Devils

Traralgon Football Club - Maroons

 

[wizardwaffle]

Clubs that left from 1990 to 1995
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Brunswick Football Club - Magpies

Camberwell Football Club - Cobras

Dandenong Football Club - Redlegs

Oakleigh Football Club - Oaks

Prahran Football Club - Two Blues

Sunshine Football Club - Crows

 

[wizardwaffle]

YEARS WHEN THERE WAS TWO DIVISIONS
Former Clubs that left from 1961 - 1988​

Berwick Football Club - Gippslanders

Brighton Football Club - Penguins

Caulfield Football Club - Bears

Geelong West Football Club - Roosters

Kilsyth Football Club - Cougars

Moorabbin Football Club - Kangaroos

Mordialloc Football Club - Bloods

Northcote Football Club - Dragons

Waverley Football Club - Panthers

Yarraville Football Club - Eagles

 

[wizardwaffle]

Years after the clubs left to form the VFL
Former Clubs that left from 1897 - 1960​

Essendon Association Football Club - Dreadnoughts

Geelong Association Football Club
VFA: 1922 - 1927
Colours: Purple and Gold then Navy Blue and White
Jumper Designs: Unknown

Hawthorn Football Club - Maybloomers

North Melbourne Football Club - Shinboners

West Melbourne Football Club
VFA: 1879 - 1880, 1899 - 1907
Colours: Red and White
Jumper Designs: Unknown

 

[wizardwaffle]

Clubs that left between 1877 to 1897​

Albert Park Football Club

Ballarat Football Club
VFA: 1877 - 1888
Colours and Jumper Designs: Unknown

Ballarat Imperial Football Club - Imps
VFA: 1877 - 1888
Colours and Jumper Designs: Unknown

Barwon Football Club
VFA: 1877 - 1878
Colours and Jumper Designs: Unknown

Beechworth Football Club
VFA: 1877
Colours and Jumper Designs: Unknown

Castlemaine Football Club
VFA: 1877
Colours and Jumper Designs: Unknown

East Melbourne Football Club
VFA: 1877 - 1882
Colours and Jumper Designs: Unknown

Fitzroy Football Club - Maroons

Inglewood Football Club
VFA: 1877 - 1879
Colours and Jumper Designs: Unknown

Melbourne Football Club - Fuchsias

Rochester Football Club
VFA: 1877
Colours and Jumper Designs: Unknown

South Ballarat Football Club
VFA: 1877 - 1888
Colours and Jumper Designs: Unknown

South Melbourne Football Club - Bloods
Image coming soon

South Williamstown Football Club
VFA: 1886 - 1888
Colours and Jumper Designs: Unknown

University Football Club - Students

 

[wizardwaffle]

I have moved this thread over from the Graphics section because this is a more appropriate section for it.

 

[wizardwaffle]

Here is some video of the VFA
1978 2nd Division VFA Grand Final - Frankston v Camberwell


1986 2nd Division VFA Preliminary Final - Prahran v Sunshine


History of the Williamstown Football Club


End of the Prahran Football Club


1987 2nd Division VFA Grand Final - Prahran v Waverley

 

[wizardwaffle]

1978 1st Division VFA Grand Final - Prahran v Preston


1979 1st Division VFA Grand Final - Coburg v Geelong West


The end of the Camberwell Football Club


Rino Pretto kicks his 1000th VFA goal play for the Dandenong Redlegs

 

[wizardwaffle]

Brunswick-Broadmeadows v Preston in 1990


1986 2nd Division 2nd Semi Final - Box Hill v Sunshine

Commentary by Eddie McGuire

 

[Bunk Moreland]

Great videos, thanks for that.

Would be great to see a top level of local footy in Melbourne again. Even just a single division above all the local leagues for the elite clubs.

 

[The_Wookie]

GREAT THREAD! And now stickied.

 

[35Daicos]

Absolutely fantastic work. Well done.

 

[wizardwaffle]

1963 VFA 1st Division Grand Final
Moorabbin v Sandringham
Moorabbin 19.16 130 d Sandringham 9.12 66
at Port Melbourne Cricket Ground
Attendance 15,000 on 21 September 1963​

Part 1:
Part 2:
Part 3: ​

This was the last time Moorabbin played in the VFA for 20 years. With St.Kilda moving to the Moorabbin Oval from the start of the 1965 season meant that Moorabbin were losing their ground, and would mean that they would be booted out of the VFA.

 

[wizardwaffle]

History of the Caulfield Football Club
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[wizardwaffle]

Video of the 1971 1st Division VFA Grand Final
between Dandenong v Preston
Dandenong 14.14 98 d Preston 13.14 92
Attendance: 14,529
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The 1971 VFA 1st Division Grand Final was held on Sunday 26 September 1971 at the Junction Oval in St Kilda to decide the 1st Division Premiership for 1971, but it would take until Wednesday evening to official declare Dandenong Premiers.

The match was one of the most controversial in the history of the VFA. Dandenong won the match by six points; however, Preston challenged the result, on the grounds that a free kick paid to Dandenong full-forward Jim 'Frosty' Miller before the opening bounce was not valid under the rules of the game. It was not until Preston's challenge was defeated on the evening of Wednesday 29 September that Dandenong was formally confirmed as premiers. It was Dandenong's second VFA Division 1 premiership.

 

[wizardwaffle]

Coburg Team Photo - 1928

Oakleigh Team Photo - 1949

Williamstown Tram Photo - 1949

Yarraville Team Photo - 1928

 

[wizardwaffle]

Here are a few other pictures.
Northcote Annual Report 1952

The VFA Grand Final Football Recorder, Year unknown

The Brighton Football Club's End of Season Trip Itinerary for 1956

To Tungamah

A signed Geelong West jumper

The front page from the Dandenong Journal after Preston's protest after a Grand Final

A Preston Bullants 1983 Premiership Poster

How Williamstown players looked a few years back

A players card of a Yarraville player

 

[wizardwaffle]

This thread isn't just for me to put old VFA pictures up. Everyone can put up their pictures and memories of the old VFA. This thread is to keep the memories of the old VFA alive. Put your memories and pictures here so we can all remember how football once was.

 

[wizardwaffle]

a photo of the Prahran huddle from the Preston v Prahran game from Preston in 1992

 

[wizardwaffle]

The Sunshine team photo from 1986

 

[Michael Riley]

wizardwaffle, you may like to recommend that people go to the boylesfootballphotos.net.au website and have a look at our photos of the various VFA clubs.

You did not bring through our comments on the photos about where we found them which some people may like to know. For example, the Brighton team photo is from my own collection but most of the others I photographed in the State Library of Victoria or scanned from a private collection.

Knowing the source is useful for people who want to cite the photo in an article, or to track down the original. In many cases the original sites have further information about the photos.

People may want to check out our Preston Page which has a great collection of old team photos many supplied by Brian Membrey.

We would also appreciate a link so that people know about the work we are doing over on the boyles site. We are always interested in collecting old VFA team photos and if anyone has some, please send them our way.

We don't hold copyrighted images on our site. For example the 1986 Sunshine team is copyright to Barry Searle and we would not publish the photo without his permission....and I know...we live in the dark ages...

For more modern photos pinched from everywhere try
https://www.facebook.com/pages/VFA-Footy-The-Halcyon-Days/183319391711258?sk=photos_albums

 

[wizardwaffle]

Here is the Werribee Jumper with red in it.

A poster for the fans of the Northcote Football Club

A poster for the fans of the Oakleigh Football Club

 

[RogersResults]

Nice work but the graphics are a bit of a browser clogger. (Quite a bit especially for those with slower connections.)

This is reduced to width of 1024 px and saved as a 256 colour PNG file . It is 118kb. (Appears to be about 1/5th the size of the original.)
Freeware program Irfanview (with free RIOT plug-in) does the job. http://www.irfanview.com/

Note too: Opening graphic has the VFA starting in 1887 instead of 1877.