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Welcome to the Australia Project's Notables in Sport: Australian Rules Football - Hawthorn Football Club
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Hawthorn Football Club is a professional Australian Rules Football club that competes in the Australian Football League (AFL). Founded in 1902* in the inner-east Melbourne suburb of Hawthorn, and based in Mulgrave, Victoria, it is the youngest Victorian-based team in the AFL. Hawthorn was granted inclusion in the Victorian Football Association (VFA) in 1914 (replacing the disbanded Melbourne City club), and transferred to the Victorian Football League (VFL) in January 1925, along with Footscray and North Melbourne.
Originally their home games were played at Glenferrie Oval in Hawthorn, but by 2023 they were playing home games at the Melbourne Cricket Ground (MCG), with a secondary home base since 2007 (four games per year) being York Park in Launceston, Tasmania.
Hawthorn is the only club to have won Grand Finals in each decade of the 1960s, 1970s, 1980s, 1990s, 2000s, and 2010s, with three consecutive wins in 2013, 2014, and 2015. Their women's side took the 2018 premiership in the VFL Women's (VFLW) competition, while a national side entered the fray in the AFL Women's (AFLW) competition in August 2022, with tickets selling out within 24 hours.
* The team that came into being in 1902—and joined the VFL in 1925—is the fourth known to have carried the name "Hawthorn Football Club", with the previous iterations (the earliest known formed around 1873) having closed up shop by 1899. However, the region has had continuous representation by a football team, including one iteration that competed in the Victorian Junior Football Association (Metropolitan Junior Football Association (MJFA)) from 1893 until 1898.
Nicknamed "the Hawks", the club's motto is spectemur agendo ("Let us be judged by our acts"), and their colours are brown and gold.
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Hawthorn Football Club also known as "Hawks", "The Family Club" and formerly known as the "Mayblooms". |
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Photo | Name | Captain (years) | Years Played | Games (Goals) | VFL/AFL Premiership Other Career Highlight(s) | Connected |
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[[Image:|50px]] | Matthew Joseph Collins | - | 1905 – 1908 | 50 (16) | Named Club's Most Consistent player in 1906 (MJFA). | N |
John Joseph Collins | - | 1907 - 1908 | 18 (34) | - | N | |
Timothy James Collins | 1913 | 1907 - 1913 | 53 (27) | Selected for (but did not play) for the winning Third Australian Divisional team in the famous "Pioneer Exhibition Game" of Australian Rules football, held in London, in October 1916. | N | |
Cyril Nott | - | 1919–1920 (VFA) 1923–1924 (VFA) & 1925–1926 (VFL) | 80 (26) | - | Y | |
[[Image:|50px]] | Miles Alfred Bob Sellars | 1928 | 1925–1934 | 98 (65) | Hawthorn Football Club Best all Rounder: 1928. Hawthorn Football Club Hall of Fame Member. | needs profile |
[[Image:|50px]] | Bert Hyde | - | 1925–1935 | 129 (269) | Club leading goalkicker: 1926–1930. Hawthorn Football Club Hall of Fame Member. Represented Victoria at both full-forward (1928) and at full-back. | needs profile |
[[Image:|50px]] | Bert Mills | 1932, 1934, 1938, 1940–1941 | 1930–1942 | 196 (60) | Club Best and Fairest: 1933, 1935, 1939. Hawthorn Football Club Hall of Fame Member. Hawthorn Football Club Team of the 20th Century. | needs profile |
[[Image:|50px]] | Stanley James Spinks | - | 1931–1941 | 143 (19) | 2 Club Best & Fairest winner: 1932, 1938. Inducted into the Hawthorn Football Club Hall of Fame in 2007. Represented Victoria at Interstate level. | needs profile |
[50px] | Alec Marsh Albiston | 1947–1949 | 1936–42; 1945–49 | 170 (383) | 2 Hawthorn Best and Fairest (1941, 1946) 4 Hawthorn leading goalkicker (1939, 1941, 1942, 1945) Coached Hawthorn 1947–1949 Games (W–L–D) 57 (12–45–0) Hawthorn Hall of Fame (2011) | needs profile |
[[Image:|50px]] | Colin Edward Col Austen | - | 1940–1943, 1946–1949 | 85 (0) | Brownlow Medal winner in 1949. Hawthorn Football Club Best and Fairest: 1949. Hawthorn Football Club Team of the 20th Century. | needs profile |
John James Kennedy Sr | 1955–1959 | 1950–1959 | 164 (29) | Coach (1957) Games (W–L–D) 1 (0–1–0) Coach (1960–1963) Games (W–L–D) 77 (46–30–1) Coach (1967–1976) Games (W–L–D) 221 (135–85–1) 4 Hawthorn Best and Fairest (1950–1952,1954) 3 VFL Premiership (Grand Final) coach (1961, 1971, 1976) Australian Football Hall of Fame – Legend status Hawthorn Hall of Fame – Legend status | N | |
[[Image:|50px]] | Roy Alexander Simmonds | - | 1950–1961 | 192 (78) | Hawthorn Football Club Best and Fairest: 1956. Club Coach in 1973 (1 game). Hawthorn Football Club Hall of Fame Inductee: 2011. Hawthorn Football Club Team of the 20th Century. Played at Interstate Level for Victoria. | needs profile |
[[Image:|50px]] | John Leslie Peck | 1965 | 1954–1966 | 213 (475) | 1 Premiership as a Player (1961). 8 Club Leading Goalkicker awards 1956, 1958, 1961–1966, Played for Victoria at Interstate level. Hawthorn Football Club Hall of Fame Member. 3 Coleman Medal for League Leading Goalkicker in 1963, 1964, 1965. | needs profile. |
[[Image:|50px]] | Graham Francis Arthur | 1960 – 1968 | 1955–1968 | 232 (201) | 1 Premiership as Captain (1961). 3 Club Best and Fairest winner in 1955, 1958, 1962. Club Coach in 1964 - 1965. Hawthorn Football Club Team of the Century: 2001 (Captain). Hawthorn Football Club Hall of Fame Inductee of 2003. Hawthorn Football Club Legend of the Club Inductee of 2005. Australian Football Hall of Fame Inductee of 1996. | needs profile. |
[[Image:|50px]] | Brendan Edwards | - | 1956–1963 | 109 (29) | 1 Premiership as a player (1961). Club Best and Fairest in 1960. Hawthorn Football Club Hall of Fame member. | needs profile |
[[Image:|50px]] | Peter Crimmins | 1974–1975 | 1966 – 1975 | 176 (231) | 1 Premiership as a player (1971). Hawthorn Football Club Hall of Fame member. | needs profile. |
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See also:
- Wikipedia : Australian Rules Football
- Wikipedia : Hawthorn Football Club
- Australian Football League : HAWTHORN FOOTBALL CLUB Always: Our Club
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