Query When did the Bendigo Association come under the VFL/AFL?

[Michael Riley]

Ivo Crapp umpired for the second time in Bendigo in July 1901 (http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article186114803).
He suggested that next year the Bendigo Association "enlist under the league government."

Does anyone have a record of when this actually happened? It certainly happened within the next few years. I just cannot pin it down.

 

[35Daicos]

Ivo Crapp umpired for the second time in Bendigo in July 1901 (http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article186114803).
He suggested that next year the Bendigo Association "enlist under the league government."

Does anyone have a record of when this actually happened? It certainly happened within the next few years. I just cannot pin it down.

It hadn't happened by April 1908 according to this: https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/227881459


It was still being argued about in April 1909: https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/100510104

It looks to have happened mid-May 1909: https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/10682304 (15 May 1909)

 

[Chief]

Ignore this - it's a test of the alerts system.

 

[Michael Riley]

Thank you. I had limited myself to 1902-1905.

In 1905 there was a dispute whether the challenge final gate money was split between the competing teams or all teams in the competition.
This dispute was put to the VFL to resolve, and they did, banning South Bendigo and California Gully team and players from playing or joining League controlled clubs.

THE FOOTBALL DISPUTE. (1905, November 11). The Bendigo Independent (Vic. : 1891 - 1918), p. 5.
http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article223522820

This dispute led to two separate competitions in Bendigo in 1906, and eventual compromise.

THE FOOTBALL DISPUTE. (1906, June 9). The Bendigo Independent (Vic. : 1891 - 1918), p. 8.
http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article226941328


The Bendigo Association must have appealed to the League as an independent arbiter, Hmm
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Yes they did...South Bendigo put a point of order at the referral meeting, that "the matter was not under that body's jurisdiction".

SPORTING. (1905, October 10). Bendigo Advertiser (Vic. : 1855 - 1918), p. 3.
http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article89531134

The whole thing is very messy.

 

[amzoun9595]

Paul Amy has reported that the AFL has written to all the State leagues, assuring them the story about the AFL reserves league reforming is unfounded, and is not on the agenda.

 

[Michael Riley]

My article on this period is now complete

http://www.boylesfootballphotos.net.au/article136-Bendigo-Football-Association-1901-to-1906

 

[Bunk Moreland]

Paul Daffy’s book on country footy, Behind The Goals, is quite detailed about all of this.