Australian Rules Football - Melbourne Football Club

Date: 1858
Location: Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
Surnames/tags: Australia Aussie Rules Football

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The Melbourne Football Club, also known as the Demons, is a professional Australian Rules Football club founded in 1858 that competes in the Australian Football League (AFL), formerly the Victorian Football League (VFL). It was after a game at the beginning of the 1859 football season that the Melbourne Football Club officially came into being on the14th May that year.
Based in Melbourne, Victoria, the Club plays its home games at the Melbourne Cricket Ground (MCG), and they compete in both AFL (Men)/ AFLW (Women), and VFL (Men)/ VFLW (Women) where VFL in this instance is a second-tier, regional, semi-professional competition, not the premier league that became the AFL in 1990 after having expanded competition to other Australian states in the 1980s.
The Team's colours are red and navy blue.

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The Melbourne Football Club's 1900 Team – Winners of the Club's first VFL Premiership.

Melbourne Football Club also known as "the Demons", "the Dees"

Photo	Name	Captain (years)	Years Played	Games (Goals)	VFL/AFL Premiership Other Career Highlight(s)	Connected
	Thomas Wentworth Wills	1858	Founder of the Melbourne Football Club.	Founder of Australian Rules Football.	After playing for both Melbourne and Geelong, he moved permanently to Geelong after 1865.	Y
	Henry Colden Antill Harrison	1861–1872	1859–1872	-	Vice president of the newly formed Victorian Football Association (VFA) in 1877. Chairman of the first Australian Football Conference in 1905.	Y
50px	Patrick John "Kangaroo Kicker" O'Dea (Pat O'Dea on Wikipedia)	-	1893-1895 (VFA)		Represented Victoria in 1894. Played American football at the University of Wisconsin–Madison (1898–1899). Is credited with helping to popularise Australian Rules Football in the United States as a participation sport. Inducted into the (American) College Football Hall of Fame as a player in 1962	needs profile
	Fred McGinis	N	(VFA) 1894–1896 (VFL) 1897–1901	45 (41) 84 (36)	1 Premiership as a player (1900).	needs profile
	Dan Moriarty	N	1899 – 1903	62 (2)	-	Y
	John Goodwin "Jack" Leith	N	(VFA) 1896 (VFL) 1897–1908, 1911–12	16 (28) 133 (162)	1 Premiership as a player (1900).	Y
[[Image:|50px]]	Ernest "Ernie" Adams	-	1900 – 1901	11 (7)	-	Y
	Arthur Vincent "Vin" Coutie	1907, 1910–1911	1901–1911	152 (212)	a Victorian interstate representative in 1903 and 1904.	Y
[[Image:|50px]]	Henry "Harry' Cordner	-	1903, 1905	11 (16)	-	Y
	Edward Hale Ted Leach	-	1904 & 1909	23 (9)	-	Y
[[Image:|50px]]	Edward Rae "Ted" Cordner	-	1905	2 (-)	-	Y
	Henry Evan Alfred Thomas "Harry" Brereton (1887-1950)	N	1909–1912, 1915	85 (187)	VFL leading goalkicker in 1912.	Y
[[Image:|50px]]	John "Jack" Watt	-	1913–1914	18 (7)	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
	Timothy "Tim" Collins	-	1914–1915	20 (20)	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
	Roy Park	-	1915	13 (35)	Melbourne Football Club Leading Goalkicker in 1915. Australian Test Cricketer.	N
	Leopold Paul Little	N	1919–1920	12 (4)	Previously played for University pre-war (1912–13) 34 (20) He played for the winning Third Australian Divisional team in the famous "Pioneer Exhibition Game" of Australian Rules football, held in London, in October 1916.	N
	Ivor Warne-Smith	1928–1931	1919, 1925-1932	146 (110)	1 Premiership as Player (1926). Club coach 1928–1932. Brownlow Medalist 1926, 1928 Melbourne Team of the 20th Century (centre half-forward). Australian Football Hall of Fame Inductee 1996.	Y
	Harry Moyes	N	1925–1927	45 (106)	1 Premiership as a player (1926). He played for the winning Third Australian Divisional team in the famous "Pioneer Exhibition Game" of Australian Rules football, held in London, in October 1916. Club leading goalkicker: 1926.	N
[[Image:|50px]]	Ronald Idris "Ron" Baggott	-	1935–1945	133 (308)	3 Premierships as a player (1939, 1940, 1941). Club Best and Fairest winner in 1940. Melbourne Football Club Leading Goalkicker in 1937. Inducted in the Melbourne Football Club Hall of Fame in 2003.	N
	Norm Smith	1945–1947	1935–1948	210 (546)	4 Premierships as a player (1939, 1940, 1941, 1948) 6 Premierships as a coach (1955, 1956, 1957, 1959, 1960, 1964)	N
	Ron Barassi Sr killed WWII	N	1936–1940	58 (84)	1 Premiership as a player (1940).	Y
[[Image:|50px]]	Keith William "Bluey" Truscott killed WWII	N	1937–1940	33 (33)	2 Premierships as a player (1939, 1940).	needs profile
	Sydney Louis "Syd" Anderson killed WWII	N	1939–1941	52 (12)	3 Premierships as a player (1939, 1940, 1941)	needs profile
	Harold Ball killed WWII	N	1939–1940	44 (31)	2 Premierships as a player (1939, 1940). Melbourne Football Club's Best First-year Player of 1939.	Y
[[Image:|50px]]	Edward Pruen Cordner	-	1941–43, 1946	52 (-)	In June 2008 he was named in the Melbourne Football Club's list of "150 Heroes" as part of the clubs 150th anniversary celebrations. Representing Victoria at Interstate Level.	Y
[[Image:|50px]]	Donald Pruen Cordner	1948-1949	1941–1950	166 (23)	2 Premierships as a player 1941, 1948, The Brownlow Medallist in 1946. Melbourne Football Club Best & Fairest winner of 1943. In 2000, he was named in Melbourne's "Team of the Century". In 2001 named as 1 of the 24 inaugural inductees into the Melbourne Football Club's "Hall of Fame". In June 2008 he was named in the Melbourne Football Club's list of "150 Heroes" as part of the clubs 150th anniversary celebrations.	Y
[[Image:|50px]]	George Denis Pruen Cordner	1951–1953	1943, 1948–56	152 (82)	3 Premiership as a player 1948, 1955, 1956. Melbourne Football Club Best & Fairest winner of 1949 & 1954. Melbourne Football Club's Leading goalkicker in 1950. In 2000, he was named in Melbourne's "Team of the Century". In 2001 named as 1 of the 24 inaugural inductees into the Melbourne Football Club's "Hall of Fame". In June 2008 he was named in the Melbourne Football Club's list of "150 Heroes" as part of the clubs 150th anniversary celebrations.	Y
[[Image:|50px]]	Doug Heywood	-	1943–1944, 1948–1951	54 (30)	-	Y
	Esmond Joseph Downey (1923 - 2011)	N	1944–1945	22 (9)	-	Y
[[Image:|50px]]	John Pruen Cordner	-	1951	6 (-)	-	Y
	Ron Barassi Jr AM	1960–1964	1953–1964	204 (295)	6 Premierships as a player (1955, 1956, 1957, 1959, 1960, 1964). 4 Premierships as a coach (1968, 1970, 1975, 1977)	Y
[50px]	Max Walker	-	1967-1972	85 (23)	Played for Tasmania in the 1966 Australian National Football Carnival.	Y
[50px]	Brian Wilson	-	1982–1990	154 (208)	1 Brownlow Medal (1982)	still alive
	James "Jim" Stynes OAM	-	1987 – 1998	264 (130)	1 Brownlow Medal (1991). Melbourne Football Club's Team of the 20th Century. Melbourne Football Club's Hall of Fame. 4 Keith 'Bluey' Truscott Medals for Club Best and Fairest (1991, 1995, 1996, 1997). Australian Football Hall of Fame Inductee of 2003.	N
[50px]	Colin Sylvia (1985 - 2018)	-	2004–2013	157 (129)	-	N

Sources

See also:

• Wikipedia : Australian Rules Football