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1961 VFA season

Index 1961 VFA season

The 1961 Victorian Football Association season was the 80th season of the Australian rules football competition. [1]

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Anzac Day

Anzac Day is a national day of remembrance in Australia and New Zealand that broadly commemorates all Australians and New Zealanders "who served and died in all wars, conflicts, and peacekeeping operations" and "the contribution and suffering of all those who have served".

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Anzac Day Act

Australia and New Zealand both have Anzac Day Acts providing for the commemoration of Anzac Day in those countries.

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Anzac Day match

The Anzac Day match is an annual Australian rules football match between Collingwood and Essendon, held on Anzac Day (25 April) at the Melbourne Cricket Ground (MCG).

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Australian Football League

The Australian Football League (AFL) is the pre-eminent professional competition in the sport of Australian rules football in Australia and features only Australian teams.

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Australian rules football

Australian rules football, officially known as Australian football, or simply called Aussie rules, football or footy, is a contact sport played between two teams of eighteen players on an oval-shaped field, often a modified cricket ground.

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Australian rules football in Tasmania

Australian rules football in Tasmania known as "football" officially and locally, has a history dating back to the 1860s, with the state having the distinction of being the first place outside Victoria to play the sport.

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Bob Bonnett

Robert "Bob" Bonnett (1933 – 11 May 2018) was a former Australian rules footballer who played with the Port Melbourne Football Club in the Victorian Football Association (VFA) in the 1950s and 1960s.

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Box Hill Hawks Football Club

Box Hill Hawks Football Club is an Australian rules football club playing in the Victorian Football League.

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Brighton Football Club

Brighton Football Club was an Australian rules football club which played in the Victorian Football Association (VFA).

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Brunswick Football Club

Brunswick Football Club was an Australian rules football club which played in the Victorian Football Association (VFA) from 1897 until 1991.

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Bryan Waters

Bryan Waters (born 21 January 1938) is a former Australian rules footballer who played for Hawthorn in the Victorian Football League (VFL) during the 1950s.

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Camberwell Football Club

Camberwell Football Club was an Australian rules football club which formed in 1896 and competed in the Victorian Football Association (VFA) between 1926 and 1990.

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Casey Demons

The Casey Demons Football Club is an Australian rules football club based in Cranbourne East, Victoria.

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Caulfield Football Club

Caulfield Football Club was an Australian rules football club which played in the VFA from 1965 until 1987 when due to financial difficulties the club folded.

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Central Reserve

Central Reserve is a cricket and Australian rules football ground in the suburb of Glen Waverley, in the south-east of Melbourne, Victoria, Australia.

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Coburg Football Club

The Coburg Football Club, nicknamed The Lions, is an Australian rules football club based in Coburg, a northern suburb of Melbourne, and currently playing in the Victorian Football League.

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Collins Place

Collins Place is a large mixed-use complex in the CBD of Melbourne, Victoria, Australia.

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Dandenong Football Club

Dandenong Football Club was an Australian rules football club which played in the Victorian Football Association (VFA).

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Don Scott (footballer, born 1929)

Don R. Scott (born 5 November 1929) was an Australian rules footballer who played with South Melbourne in the Victorian Football League (VFL) during the early 1950s.

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Don Whitten

Don Whitten (born 16 September 1935) is a former Australian rules footballer who played with Footscray in the Victorian Football League (VFL).

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Doug Beasy

Doug Beasy (16 April 1930 – 12 May 2013) was an Australian rules footballer who played in the Victorian Football League (VFL).

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East Melbourne, Victoria

East Melbourne is an inner suburb of Melbourne, Australia, 2 km east of Melbourne's Central Business District.

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Elsternwick Park

Elsternwick Park (currently known by its sponsored name Sportscover Arena) is an Australian rules football and cricket stadium in Brighton, a suburb of Melbourne in Victoria, Australia.

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Federal Football League

The Federal Football League was an Australian rules football competition in the south-eastern suburbs of Melbourne, Victoria, that was in existence from 1909 to 1981.

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God Save the Queen

"God Save the Queen" (alternatively "God Save the King", depending on the gender of the reigning monarch) is the national or royal anthem in a number of Commonwealth realms, their territories, and the British Crown dependencies.

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J. J. Liston Trophy

The J. J. Liston Trophy is awarded annually to the best and fairest senior player in the Victorian Football League (formerly the Victorian Football Association).

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Jack Danckert

Jack Danckert (10 July 1922 – 26 January 2000) was an Australian rules footballer who played with South Melbourne in the Victorian Football League (VFL) during the 1940s.

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Jim Cleary (Australian footballer)

Jim Cleary (13 July 1914 – 2 May 1993) was an Australian rules footballer who played for South Melbourne in the Victorian Football League (VFL).

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Junction Oval

Junction Oval (also known as the St Kilda Cricket Ground and the Victorian Cricket and Community Centre) is an historic sports ground in the suburb of St Kilda in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia.

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Kevin Meddings

Kevin Meddings (born 12 October 1941) is a former Australian rules footballer who played with Footscray in the Victorian Football League (VFL).

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Last Post

The "Last Post" is either a B♭ bugle call within British infantry regiments, or an E♭ cavalry trumpet call in British cavalry and Royal Regiment of Artillery (Royal Horse Artillery and Royal Artillery), and is used at Commonwealth military funerals, and ceremonies commemorating those who have been killed in war.

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Len Crane

Len Crane (7 February 1928 – 24 May 2006) was an Australian rules footballer who played for South Melbourne and Hawthorn in the Victorian Football League (VFL).

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Leo Maloney (footballer)

Leo Maloney (born 28 April 1937) is a former Australian rules footballer who played with Essendon in the Victorian Football League (VFL).

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List of VFA/VFL premiers

This page is a complete chronological listing of the premiers of the Australian rules football competition known as the Victorian Football Association until 1995 and as the Victorian Football League since 1996.

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Marching (sport)

In New Zealand and Australia, a competitive sport involving marching teams of young women grew up and became established from the 1930s.

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McIntyre System

The McIntyre System, or systems as there have been five of them, is a playoff system that gives an advantage to teams or competitors qualifying higher.

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Melbourne Cricket Ground

The Melbourne Cricket Ground (MCG), also known simply as "The G", is an Australian sports stadium located in Yarra Park, Melbourne, Victoria.

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Moorabbin Football Club

Moorabbin Football Club, nicknamed the Kangaroos, was the name of two distinct Australian rules football clubs which played in the Victorian Football Association (VFA).

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Moorabbin Oval

Moorabbin Oval, also known by its sponsorship name of RSEA Safety Park, is an Australian Rules Football ground in the city of Melbourne, Victoria, Australia at Linton Street in the suburb of Moorabbin.

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Mordialloc Football Club

Mordialloc Football Netball Club, nicknamed The Bloodhounds, is an Australian rules football and netball club that currently participates in the Southern Football Netball League.

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North Hobart Oval

North Hobart Oval is a sports venue in North Hobart, Tasmania, used for Australian rules football.

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Northcote Football Club

Northcote Football Club (/ˈnoːθ.kət/), nicknamed The Dragons, was an Australian rules football club which played in the VFA from 1908 until 1987.

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Northern Blues

Northern Blues Football Club is a long-established Australian rules football club based in Preston and currently playing in the Victorian Football League representing the central and outer areas of Melbourne.

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Oakleigh Football Club

Oakleigh Football Club, nicknamed the Devils, was an Australian rules football club from Oakleigh which played in the VFA from 1929 until 1994.

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Port Melbourne Football Club

The Port Melbourne Football Club, nicknamed The Borough, is an Australian rules football club based in the Melbourne suburb of Port Melbourne and is currently playing in the Victorian Football League (VFL).

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Prahran Football Club

Prahran Assumption Football Club (/pɛ'ræn/), nicknamed The Two Blues, is an Australian rules football club based at Toorak Park in Orrong Road between High Street and Malvern Road, Armadale, in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia.

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Promotion and relegation

In sports leagues, promotion and relegation is a process where teams are transferred between multiple divisions based on their performance for the completed season.

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Proxy voting

Proxy voting is a form of voting whereby a member of a decision-making body may delegate his or her voting power to a representative, to enable a vote in absence.

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Punt Road Oval

Punt Road Oval, also known by naming rights sponsorship as the Swinburne Centre, is an Australian rules football ground and former cricket oval located in Yarra Park, East Melbourne, Victoria situated only a few hundred metres to the east of the Melbourne Cricket Ground (MCG).

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Returned and Services League of Australia

The Returned and Services League, Australia (RSL) is a support organisation for men and women who have served or are serving in the Defence Force.

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Reveille

"Reveille" is a bugle call, trumpet call or pipes call most often associated with the military and prisons; it is chiefly used to wake military personnel and prisoners at sunrise.

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Sandringham Football Club

The Sandringham Football Club, nicknamed The Zebras, is an Australian rules football club based in Melbourne which was formed in 1929 and plays in the Victorian Football League (VFL) which was formerly called the Victorian Football Association (VFA).

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Sunshine Football Club (VFA)

Sunshine Football Club, nicknamed The Crows, was an Australian rules football club which played in the Victorian Football Association (VFA) from 1959 until 1989.

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Terry Waters

Terry Waters (born 14 December 1943) is a former Australian rules footballer who played with Collingwood in the Victorian Football League (VFL).

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Tom Pelly

Tom Pelly (1 June 1936 – 23 June 2006) was an Australian rules footballer who played with North Melbourne in the Victorian Football League (VFL) during the 1950s.

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Toorak Park

Toorak Park is a cricket and Australian rules football arena in the Melbourne suburb of Armadale, Victoria, Australia.

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Trevor Barker Oval

The Trevor Barker Oval, formerly known as the Beach Oval or Hampton Oval is an Australian rules football ground in Beach Road, on the border between Hampton and Sandringham, Victoria.

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Victorian Football League

The Victorian Football League (VFL) is the major state-level Australian rules football league in Victoria.

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Waverley Football Club

Waverley Football Club, nicknamed the Panthers, was an Australian rules football club which played in the Victorian Football Association (VFA) from 1961 until 1987.

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Williamstown Football Club

The Williamstown Football Club, nicknamed The Seagulls, is an Australian rules football club based in Melbourne.

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Windy Hill, Essendon

Windy Hill (officially known as Essendon Recreation Reserve) is an Australian rules football and cricket ground located in Napier Street, Essendon, a northwestern suburb of the Melbourne metropolitan area.

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Yarra River

The Yarra River or historically, the Yarra Yarra River, (Aboriginal: Berrern, Birr-arrung, Bay-ray-rung, Birarang, Birrarung, and Wongete) is a perennial river in east-central Victoria, Australia.

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Yarraville Football Club

Yarraville Football Club was an Australian rules football club founded in 1903 and played in the VJFA until 1927.

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1935 VFA season

The 1935 Victorian Football Association season was the 57th season of the Australian rules football competition.

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1936 VFA season

The 1936 Victorian Football Association season was the 58th season of the Australian rules football competition.

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1960 VFA season

The 1960 Victorian Football Association season was the 79th season of the Australian rules football competition.

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1962 VFA season

The 1962 Victorian Football Association season was the 81st season of the top division of the Australian rules football competition, and the second season of its second division.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1961_VFA_season

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