By Carlo Carli, President, Brunswick Zebras Brunswick Zebras Football Club is a direct descent of the Melbourne Juventus Club. Today it is a large community club based in Sumner Park, Brunswick East. After starting out as an Italian club, it is now an all-inclusive club, with male and female teams and with players from diverse cultural and […]
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The Brunswick U13 Dragons’ 2013 premiership season
The following is a personal recollection of the Brunswick U13 Dragons’ 2013 premiership winning season in the Yarra Junior Football League. This is an edited version of an article by Director of Coaching Trevor Ludeman that was originally published in the Brunswick Junior Football Club 2013 Annual Report. The old adage in Amateur Football is […]
Ted Henrys (1924-2014)
Preston Football Club were fortunate that Brunswick de-listed Ted Henrys early in 1951 after he had struggled to win a regular spot in the side in 1950 despite having played 70 games over five seasons up until then. After trying out with Richmond prior to the Second World War, Henrys had been used as a […]
Greensborough Football Club
Club Formation 1890’s The Evelyn Observer reported in the Friday 30th June 1893 edition that the first match of the recently formed Greensborough Football Club took place on Saturday last (24th June 1893). It was played against Diamond Creek and resulted in a draw. Greensborough played various games during the period 1890- 1910 but not […]
Preston District Junior Football Assocation
(Image (1958 Atlantic Picture Pageant Card) : Don Furness, 136 games with Fitzroy from 1949, previously with Preston Swimmers and just one of over 100 VFL players who started their footy careers in the PDJFA) Prior to the Second World War, there were a few “junior” football clubs (in terms of class, but not age-wise) […]