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Date: 1864
Location: Victoria, Australia

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The Carlton Football Club also known as "the Blues", is a professional Australian Rules Football club founded in 1864, in Carlton, an inner suburb of Melbourne, Victoria, that competes in the Australian Football League (AFL), formerly the Victorian Football League (VFL).
Carlton was a dominant club in early Australian Rules Football competitions, a foundation member of the Victorian Football Association (VFA) – winning the inaugural premiership in 1877 – and joined the breakaway Victorian Football League (since renamed the AFL) in 1896.
Carlton is regarded as one of the league's historical "Big Four" clubs – along with major rivals Essendon, Richmond, and Collingwood.
Under Jack Worrall (a former Fitzroy footballer and Australian test cricketer) the club won consecutive, Grand Finals (1906, 1907 and 1908), becoming the first club in the VFL to win three premierships in a row. (Worrall's management of the players is recognised as the first official coaching role in the VFL.)
More recently (as of July 2023) the club fielded a team in the inaugural season of AFL Women's in 2017, and also has reserves sides in the Victorian Football League and VFL Women's.
Based in in Carlton North at Princes Park, its traditional home ground, the Club plays its home games at Docklands Stadium and the Melbourne Cricket Ground (MCG).
The Team's motto is "'Mens sana in corpore sano'" (a healthy mind in a healthy body), and its colours are Navy blue—usually with a white monogram-style CFC on the jersey's centre front.

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Carlton Football Club's 1887 VFA Premiership side.


Carlton Football Club also known as "the Blues", "the Blue Baggers", "Old Dark Navy Blues", "Baggers"

Photo	Name	Captain (years)	Years Played	Games (Goals)	VFA/VFL/AFL Premiership Other Career Highlight(s)	Connected
[[Image:\|50px]]	George Coulthard	-	1876–1882 (VFA)	85 (55)	1 Premiership as a player (1877 in VFA). 3 times VFA leading goal-kicker in 1878, 1879, 1880. Australian Football Hall of Fame inductee. Carlton Football Club Hall of Fame inductee of 1990.	needs profile
[[Image:\|50px]]	Alfred Edward (Topsy) Waldron	-	1877–1878 (VFA)	27 (0)	1 Premiership as a player (1877 in VFA). Represented South Australia 6 times at Intercolonial level as Captain. South Australian Football Hall of Fame inductee of 2002.	Y
	Wally OCock	-	1896 - 1899, 1901	51 (36)	Club leading goalkicker 1896 (VFA) and 1897 (VFL)	Y
	Charlie Curtis	-	1896 - 1900	24 (2)	-	Y
	Harry McShane	1899	1899 – 1904	82 (28)	-	Y
[[Image:\|50px]]	Fred "Pompey" Elliott	1908 - 1911	1900–01 & 1903–11	197 (86)	2 Premierships as a player (1906, 1908). Club Captain-Coach 1909-1911. Inducted in the Carlton Football Club Hall of Fame in 1998. first VFL player to reach 200 games.	needs a profile
	Joe McShane	1902 - 1904	1902 - 1904	48 (17)	-	Y
	Alby "Badger" Ingleman	-	1905 – 1908	21 (2)	1 Premiership as a player (1907)	Y
	Les Beck	—	1906–1909	60 (3)	3 Premierships as a player (1906, 1907 & 1908).	Y
[[Image:\|50px]]	Rod McGregor	-	1905–1912 & 1914–1920	236 (26)	4 Premierships as a player (1906, 1908, 1914, 1915). Inducted in the Carlton Football Club Hall of Fame in 1987. Played for Victoria at Interstate Level. Inducted into the Australian Football Hall of Fame in 1996.	needs a profile.
	Fred Jinks	-	1906 – 1909	60 (28)	3 Premierships as a player (1906, 1907, 1908)	Y
[[Image:\|50px]]	Viv Valentine	-	1911 - 1918	116 (91)	1 Premiership as a player (1915). Club Coach in 1919. Awarded Carlton Football Club Life Membership on the 20th of February 1919. Tasmanian Football Hall of Fame Inductee.	Y
	Lyle "The Packet" Downs	-	1917–21	47 (31)	-	Y
	John "Jack" Dickson Greenhill	-	1917, 1920–23	41 (4)	Played for Victoria at Interstate level.	Y
[[Image:\|50px]]	Horace "Horrie" Ray Clover	1922–24, 1927	1920 – 1931	147 (396)	Club Captain/Coach 1922–24, 1927. Carlton Football Club Best & Fairest 1929. Club's Leading Goalkicker in 1920–1923, 1926 & 1928. Inducted in the Carlton Football Club Hall of Fame in 1987 Inducted into the Australian Football Hall of Fame in 1996. Victorian State Representative 9 times. VFL Leading Goalkicker 1922	needs profile
[[Image:\|50px]]	Charles "Charlie" Dickson Greenhill	-	1922	3 (0)	-	Y
	Harry "Soapy" Vallence	-	1926 – 1938	204 (722)	1 Premiership as a player (1938). Club's leading goalkicker in 1929, 1931–1933, 1935–1938. Inducted in the Carlton Football Club Hall of Fame in 1987. Carlton Football Club Team of the 20th Century. Captain-Coach of the Carlton Football Club's Reserves for three seasons (1942-1944)	Y
	Edward Augustus "Ansell" Clarke	1937	1929–1937	144 (242)	Club's Best and Fairest award winner of 1936.	Y
	Francis "Frank" Gill	1933	1929 – 1942	205 (14)	1 Premierships as a player (1938). Carlton Football Club's Best and Fairest in 1939. Carlton Football Club's Hall of Fame inductee of 1993. Represented Victoria at Interstate level.	Y
	Cresswell William "Mickey" Crisp	-	1931 – 1941	183 (281)	1 Premiership as a player (1938). Carlton Football Club Best and fairest award in 1934 and 1938. Club's Leading goalkicking in 1934. Carlton Football Club Hall of Fame inductee of 1990. Victorian interstate representative.	Y
	Keith Dunn	-	1934–1937	38 (33)	Represented South Australia at Interstate Level. Magarey Medal (while playing for Sturt in the SANFL) in 1933.	Y
	Robert Mainwaring "Bob" Chitty	1945–1946	1937–1946	147 (32)	2 Premierships as a player (1938), captain (1945) 2 Robert Reynolds Trophy (1941, 1944) Captain-coach Benalla Football Club (1947–1949) Captain-coach Scottsdale Football Club (Tasmania) Won the Northern Tasmanian Football Association goalkicking with 40 goals (1952)	Y
[[Image:\|50px]]	Bert Deacon	-	1942 – 1951	106 (7)	2 Premierships as a player (1945 & 1947). 1947 Brownlow medalist. Club Best and Fairest winner in 1947. Part of the Carlton Football Club's Team of the 20th Century, Elevated to Legend status in the Carlton Football Club Hall of Fame in 1997.	needs profile
[[Image:\|50px]]	Oliver "Ollie" Grieve	-	1942 – 1952	137 (4)	1 Premiership as a player (1947). Carlton Football Club's Best and Fairest in 1952. Carlton Football Club Hall of Fame inductee of 1994.	Y
[[Image:\|50px]]	Ernest "Ern" Henfry	1947–1952	1944 & 1947–1952	84 (20)	1 Premiership as Captain (1947). Carlton Football Clubs Best and Fairest 1947, 1949. Carlton Football Club Hall of Fame inductee in 1992. Played at Interstate Level with both Western Australia and Victoria. West Australian Football Hall of Fame Inductee of 2004. Australian Football Hall of Fame Inductee of 2014.	Y
[[Image:\|50px]]	Bruce "Bugsy" Comben	1958-1960	1950 – 1961	188 (36)	Club Best and Fairest in 1957 & 1958. Carlton Football Club Hall of Fame inductee of 1989. Carlton Football Club's Team of the 20th Century. In 1982 Awarded an OAM (Order of Australia Medal) for services to the community, and to Australian Football.	needs profile
[[Image:\|50px]]	John James	-	1953–1963	195 (31)	1961 Brownlow Medallist. Carlton Football Club Best and Fairest in 1955, 1960, 1961. Played for Victoria at Interstate level. Carlton Football Club Hall of Fame Inductee of 1987. Carlton Football Club's Team of the 20th Century.	needs profile
[[Image:\|50px]]	Don Nicholls	-	1956–1961	77 (32)	Carlton Football Club's Best First-Year Player in 1956.	needs profile
[[Image:\|50px]]	John Nicholls	1963, 1968–1974	1957–1974	328 (307)	3 Premierships as a player (1968, 1970, 1972). Carlton Football Club's Best First-Year Player in 1957. Carlton Football Club's Best and Fairest Player 5 times (1959, 1963, 1965, 1966, 1967). Carlton Football Club's Team of the 20th Century as a ruckman. Carlton Football Club's Hall of Fame Inductee of 1987. Played for Victoria at Interstate level on 31 occasions. Australian Football Hall of Fame, inaugural Legend in 1996. AFL Team of the 20th Century.	needs profile
[50px]	Sergio Silvagni	1964	1958–1971	239 (136)	2 Premierships as a player (1968, 1970) 2 Robert Reynolds Trophy (1962, 1968) Coach: Years Games (W–L–D) 1978 3 (0–3–0)	needs profile
[[Image:\|50px]]	Maurie Sankey	-	1959–1965	100 (61)	-	N
	Ron Barassi Jr AM	N	1965–1969	50 (35)	2 Premierships as Coach (1968, 1970) Australian Football Hall of Fame. AFL Legend	Y
[50px]	Alex Jesaulenko	1974–76, 1978–79	1967–1979	256 (424)	4 Premiership as a player (1968, 1970, 1972, 1979). 3 times Carlton Football Club's Leading Goalkicker (1969, 1970, 1971). Carlton Football Club's Team of the 20th Century. Carlton Football Club's Hall of Fame Inductee of 1987. Played for Victoria at Interstate level on 15 occasions. Australian Football Hall of Fame inductee of 1996, Legend status 2008. Awarded an MBE in 1979. Sport Australia Hall of Fame inductee of 2010.	needs profile

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