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Collegians Football Club 
Names Nickname(s) Lions 2011 season Premiership Premiers Club details Founded 1891 Colours Purple Gold Coach Simon Arnott and Mark Hibbins Captain(s) Chris Blumfield Premierships 15 Ground(s) Harry Trott Oval (Albert Park) Other information Official website www.collegiansfc.com Guernsey:
Collegians Football Club ("The Lions") is the oldest club in the VAFA, formed in 1891. Their home ground is the Harry Trott Oval in the Melbourne suburb of Albert Park.[1]
In 1891, L.A.Adamson established an Wesley College Old Boys’ XVIII which formally became Collegians Football Club in 1892.[2] Adamson, who was for thirty years the Headmaster of Wesley College, was the President of the club for its first forty years. In 1892, Adamson established the Metropolitan Junior Football Association (of which he was President for thirty-seven years), which in 1932 became the Victorian Amateur Football Association.[2] Their 16 "A" grade premierships is more than any other club.
Contents
Premierships
A Section
- 1892, 1896, 1898, 1899, 1902, 1904, 1936, 1937, 1957, 1958, 1959, 1961, 1986, 1992, 1993, 2011
B Section
- 1926, 1956, 2006
Club Song
Old Collegians vs Melbourne University Blacks at Collegians' home ground (Albert Park)
The club's theme song is based on the first verse and chorus of "The Old Collegians Song", which appears in the Wesley College Songbook in all editions from 1893.[3] The lyrics were written by Lawrence Arthur Adamson set to the tune of a traditional Irish Folk Tune, "Irish Jaunting Car", and the later tune "The Bonnie Blue Flag", a song from the US War of Independence.[3] The original lyrics refer to the interim school colours "Blue and White", which returned to "Gold and Purple" at the end of 1902.[3]
External links
- Official Site
- The history of a great football club : Collegians centenary 1892-1992 / Laurie T. Humphries
References
- ^ About Us Collegians Football Club. Retrieved 2010-10-17.
- ^ a b "Collegians". History of Australian Footy. Full Points Footy. http://www.fullpointsfooty.net/collegians.htm. Retrieved 2010-10-16.
- ^ a b c Wesley College (2009). Wesley College Song Book 2009. Wesley College, Melbourne.
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