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Collegians Football Club

Australian rules football club

CompetitionVAFACoachJared RiversPremierships1892, 1896, 1898, 1899, 1902, 1904, 1926, 1936, 1937, 1956 1957, 1958, 1959, 1961, 1986, 1992, 1993, 2006 2011, 2012, 2023.Ground(s)Harry Trott Oval (Albert Park)Uniforms

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Collegians Football Club (nicknamed the Lions) is an Australian rules football club based in the Melbourne suburb of Albert Park. Formed in 1891, it is the second-oldest club in the VAFA, after Melbourne University Football Club. The Lions have the longest continuous membership of the VAFA and its antecedents.^[1] Their home ground is the Harry Trott Oval.^[2]

History

In 1891, L.A.Adamson established a Wesley College Old Boys’ XVIII, which formally became Collegians Football Club in 1892.^[3] 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 37 years), which in 1932 became the Victorian Amateur Football Association.^[3] Their 17 "A" grade premierships is more than any other club. Collegian's introduced the clubs first Women's football team in 2017,^[4] and added a second women's team in 2018. The club fields three senior men's teams, two senior women's teams and an Under 19's team.^[5]

Premierships

A Section

1892, 1896, 1898, 1899, 1902, 1904, 1936, 1937, 1957, 1958, 1959, 1961, 1986, 1992, 1993, 2011, 2012, 2023.

B Section

1926, 1956, 2006

Club song

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.^[6] 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 Confederacy during the American Civil War.^[7] The original lyrics refer to the interim school colours "Blue and White", which returned to "Gold and Purple" at the end of 1902.^[6]

References

^ "VAFA Collegians Profile". vafa.com.au. 8 September 2021. Archived from the original on 29 January 2016.
^ About Us Archived 2011-02-23 at the Wayback Machine Collegians Football Club. Retrieved 2010-10-17.
^ ^a ^b "Collegians". History of Australian Footy. Full Points Footy. Archived from the original on 30 August 2010. Retrieved 16 October 2010.
^ "Women's football". Old Wesley Collegians Association. January 2019. Archived from the original on 23 October 2020.
^ "Collegians Football Club information page". VAFA. Archived from the original on 29 January 2016.
^ ^a ^b Wesley College (2009). Wesley College Song Book 2009. Wesley College, Melbourne.
^ "Civil War Music:The Bonnie Blue Flag". American Battlefield Trust. Retrieved 2 April 2023.