VFA/VFL History project

I can help with some of the logos. They are on my computer somewhere. I believe someone here is already entering old VFA results.

I'll have a bit of a search.

http://www.vflfooty.com/node/7666

jamesh wrote:Does anyone have details about the demise of:

Brunswick

Prahran last season was in 1994.

Oakleigh last season was 1994.

Dandenong last season was 1994.

Prahran, Oakleigh and Dandenong were all booted out after the 1994 season where they created the stupid Under 18 State League teams in Dandenong Stingrays, Oakleigh Chargers and Prahran Dragons in their place. Dandenong was livid. Prahran still exist these days but are the result of former VAFA teams in State Bank and Commonwealth Bank who merged and became Prahran Amateurs. Prahran have also an alignment with Assumption College. Dandenong arer gone but there is the Dandenong Demons which is Dandenong West who became the Dandy Demons. Oakleigh have not played in any form. The only Oakleigh senior football team is the Oakleigh Krushers in the VAFA.

Northcote last season was 1987.The Dragons did not have much money but had a severe lack of off field support. The Northcote teams of the mid 20s to the mid 30s were as good as any. Douglas Nicholls, Frank Seymour and the prince of full backs Regan who was a star with Collingwood in later years. Should have been full back in the team of the century rather than Silvagni. Probably the three greatest eras in VFA history are Northcote from the mid 20s to the mid 30s. Williamstown from the mid to late 50s. Port Melbourne from 1974 to 1982. All great eras of Association football.

It may be old news to VFA people like yourselves but baffling to me (remember in Adelaide we havent had a club fold for a long time and only 1 merger. I couldnt imagine the SANFL letting Port Adelaide die - like they nearly have several times - like Brunswick did)

Prahran was formed in 1886, but forced into amalgamation with St Kilda in 1888 (the VFA didn't want two weak clubs from the same area stealing players off each other).

Prahran regained its independence after St Kilda was invited to join the breakaway VFL. The independent club fielded a VFA side in 1899.

Prahran was one of nine applicants with serious ambitions to join the VFL upon that competition's expansion from nine to 12 teams in 1925. (Camberwell, Caulfield, Brunswick, Brighton, Hawthorn, Footscray, North Melbourne and a combined Ballarat FL side were the others).

On 9 January 1925, Prahran was one of the four shortlisted sides named by the VFL for the three available spots. At the end of that month, Prahran fell short of claiming the twelfth spot from North Melbourne by one vote.

The Two Blues left the VFA at the end of 1994 and went into recess. The Prahran (now Sandringham) Dragons entered the TAC Cup in 1995.

Under the leadership of some club stalwarts, Prahran cleared its debts and began fielding sides in C Section (ie 3rd division) of the VAFA in 1999. The club went by the name Prahran Amateur Football Club and had subsumed the former Southbank club, who lost their home ground with the creation of the CityLink Burnley Tunnel.

(Southbank in turn was formed in 1991 as a merger of former amateur sides State Savings Bank and Commonwealth Bank).

Prahran kicked on in the amateurs as Prahran AFC until the end of 2010. In November 2010, they signed an agreement with Assumption College Old Collegians to incorporate their overage sides. The club is currently called Prahran Assumption FC and plays in Division 2 (effectively the fifth level) of the VAFA.

As far as I know, Prahran’s home grounds were the Warehouseman’s Ground (aka Albert Reserve) in 1886 and Wesley College in 1887. The Two Blues have played at Toorak Park in Armadale since 1899.

Premierships were won in 1937, 1951, 1959 (Metropolitan Football League), 1966 (VFA Division 2), 1970, 1973, 1978 and 1987 (VFA Division 2).

(The 1959 Flag came after the club was expelled from the VFA that year after losing sole use of Toorak Park. Prahran was re-admitted to the VFA in 1960).