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Collegians Football Club
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Names
Nickname(s)Lions
2011 season
After finalsPremiers
Club details
Founded1891
Colours  Purple   Gold
PresidentWayne Dyer
CoachSimon Arnott and Mark Hibbins
Captain(s)Chris Blumfield
Premierships17
Ground(s)Harry Trott Oval (Albert Park)
Other information
Official websitewww.collegiansfc.com
Guernsey: File:Wesley Collegians FC Jumper.PNG

Collegians Football Club ("The Lions") is the oldest club in the VAFA, formed in 1891. Their home ground is the Harry Trott Oval in the Melbourne suburb of Albert Park.[1]

In 1891, L.A.Adamson established an Wesley College Old Boys’ XVIII which formally became Collegians Football Club in 1892.[2] Adamson, who was for thirty years the Headmaster of Wesley College, was the President of the club for its first forty years. In 1892, Adamson established the Metropolitan Junior Football Association (of which he was President for thirty-seven years), which in 1932 became the Victorian Amateur Football Association.[2] Their 17 "A" grade premierships is more than any other club.

Premierships

A Section

  • 1892, 1896, 1898, 1899, 1902, 1904, 1936, 1937, 1957, 1958, 1959, 1961, 1986, 1992, 1993, 2011, 2012.

B Section

  • 1926, 1956, 2006

Club Song

Old Collegians vs Melbourne University Blacks at Collegians' home ground (Albert Park)

The club's theme song is based on the first verse and chorus of "The Old Collegians Song", which appears in the Wesley College Songbook in all editions from 1893.[3] The lyrics were written by Lawrence Arthur Adamson set to the tune of a traditional Irish Folk Tune, "Irish Jaunting Car", and the later tune "The Bonnie Blue Flag", a song from the US War of Independence.[3] The original lyrics refer to the interim school colours "Blue and White", which returned to "Gold and Purple" at the end of 1902.[3]

External links

References

  1. ^ About Us Collegians Football Club. Retrieved 2010-10-17.
  2. ^ a b "Collegians". History of Australian Footy. Full Points Footy. Retrieved 2010-10-16.
  3. ^ a b c Wesley College (2009). Wesley College Song Book 2009. Wesley College, Melbourne.
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