- Noble Park Football Club
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Noble Park Football Club Names Nickname(s) The Bulls 2011 season Premiership Premiers Best and fairest Craig Anderson Club details Founded 1918 Colours Royal Blue Gold Competition Eastern Football League Coach Mick Fogarty Captain(s) Craig Anderson Premierships Dandenong District Association: 1935, 1941, 1944, 1945, 1947, 1951, 1952, 1953. Caulfield Oakleigh District League: 1961, 1962.
Federal Football League: 1972. (Reserves: 1970, 1972. Under 18s: 1976, 1977, 1979, 1980, 1981).
South East Suburban Football League: 1983, 1985, 1986, 1987, 1990, 1992. (Reserves: 1986, 1987, 1988, 1989, 1990, 1991, 1992. Under 18s: 1982, 1983, 1984, 1989, 1990, 1991, 1992).
Southern Football League: 1994, 1996, 1997. (Reserves: 1993, 1994, 1995, 1996, 1997, 1998, 1999. Under 18's: 1994, 1995).
Eastern Football League: 2003, 2004, 2010, 2011. (Reserves: 2004).
Ground(s) Pat Wright Senior Ground Other information Official website Noble Park Football Club Guernsey:
The Noble Park Football Club is an Australian rules football club that fields teams in both the seniors and juniors of the Eastern Football League. The club is considered one of Victoria’s most successful breeding grounds for VFL/AFL players.[1]
Due to the clubs rich history of Premierships and its contribution to the sport and the community, in 2005, they were recognised as the only sporting club named by the City of Greater Dandenong, among its 14 sporting heroes commemorative display.[2]
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History
The club was formed in 1918 and played in the Under 21 competition in the Berwick Association until the end of 1933. The club jumper was black with a yellow sash. From 1934 until 1958, the club played in the Dandenong District Association, winning eight premierships.
In 1959 Noble Park merged with the Harrisfield Football Club and became known as Noble Park-Harrisfield Football Club. The club also changed its jumper to royal blue and white vertical stripes.
In 1961, the club adopted the yellow from the original Noble Park jumper and the blue from the Harrisfield jumper to create the blue and gold vertical striped jumper which was worn for most of their exsistance. Once again the club was known as the Noble Park Football Club. This was also the year that they joined the Caulfield Oakleigh District League where they won two premierships before joining the Federal Football League in 1964.
In the Federal league, Noble Park won two reserves premierships, five under 18 premierships and one senior premiership between 1964 and 1981.
In 1982, Noble Park joined the South East Suburban Football League winning seven under 18 premierships, seven reserves premierships and six senior premierships before the league merged with the Eastern Suburbs Churches Football Association, creating the Southern Football League in 1993.
In the newly formed SFL, Noble Park won two under 18 premierships, seven reserves premierships and three senior premierships.
At the turn of the millennium, Noble Park joined the much stronger Eastern Football League, where they became known as the Bulls and change their jumper to its current design. The Bulls would have to wait until 2003 to win their first EFL premiership, but would not have to wait as long for their second, as the club went back to back, winning the 2004 premiership. The Bulls reserves team also won a premiership in 2004.
In 2010 and 2011, Noble Park went back to back, winning their third and fourth EFL premierships since joining the league in 2000.
Notable former players
Name VFL/AFL Club VFL/AFL Games Major Football Achievement Glenn Archer North Melbourne 311 1996 & 1999 Premiership Player, 1999 Norm Smith Medal David Neitz Melbourne 306 2002 Coleman Medal Stephen Milne St Kilda 236* 2004 & 2008 Pre-Season Premiership Player Tony Morwood South Melbourne/Sydney 229 Named in South Melb/Sydney's Team of the Century Shane Morwood Collingwood 212 1990 Premiership Player Brian Mynott St Kilda 210 1966 Premiership Player Steven Icke North Melbourne, Melbourne 198 1977 Premiership Player, 1981 Keith 'Bluey' Truscott Medal Paul Morwood South Melbourne/Sydney, St Kilda, Collingwood 170 1985 Trevor Barker Award Darren Millane (Dec.) Collingwood 147 1990 Premiership Player Adam Ramanauskas Essendon 134 2000 Premiership Player James Gwilt St Kilda 82* 2010 Grand Final team Darren Bennett West Coast Eagles & Melbourne 78 Went on to have a successful NFL Career John Blair South Melbourne, Fitzroy, St Kilda 33 Shane Savage Hawthorn 20* 2011 AFL Rising Star nominee Beau Dowler Hawthorn 16 U/18 All Australian Rick Norman North Melbourne, Brisbane Bears 13 Robert Bell South Melbourne 13 Patrick Foy Sydney 7 Ray Jamieson South Melbourne 5 Michael Plant South Melbourne 4 Ben Robertson Carlton 3 Doug Ensor No VFL/AFL Career N/A Guinness Book of World Records holder for the highest number of goals kicked in a game of football by an individual. (60) [3] * Still Playing
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- ^ produced champions at all levels
- ^ [http://www.thejournal.com.au/files/27/17/02/000021727/DCJW13DAND12OCT.pdf Favourite sons of football inspire]
- ^ Club History
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- Australian rules football clubs in Victoria (Australia)
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