1957 VFL season - Factbites

1957 VFL season - Factbites
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Topic: 1957 VFL season

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	N-O
		Originally from Warrugul, Alan Noonan was widely acclaimed as the VFL recruit of the year after a stunning debut season with Essendon in 1966.
		A triple club best and fairest award recipient, he was an interstate representative on 11 occasions for South Australia for whom his exhilarating performances on a wing at the 1950 Brisbane carnival earned him selection in that season's 'Sporting Life' Team Of The Year.
		All told he played 214 senior games between 1944 and 1957, including three with the Norwood-North Adelaide wartime combine.
	www.fullpointsfooty.net /n-o.htm (10532 words)

	T-U-V
		The 1977 season saw him at Yarraville as captain-coach and he promptly took the 1976 2nd division wooden spooner to a grand final meeting with Mordialloc, which was ultimately lost by 38 points after a closely fought first three quarters.
		Voted Champion of the Colony in 1893, 1894 and 1901, he won Essendon's best and fairest award in 1901, and was the leading goal kicker in the VFA three times and in the VFL once.
		The head guard did nothing to undermine his effectiveness, however; in 1965 he finished runner-up, on a countback, in the Brownlow voting to St Kilda's Ian Stewart (he was later awarded a retrospective Medal), and the following season saw him achieve All Australian honours after the Hobart carnival.
	www.fullpointsfooty.net /t-u-v.htm (11123 words)

	L
		On joining North Melbourne from Strathbogie John Law was used initially as a forward but his resolute, straight ahead style was much better suited to a half back flank, which was where he ended up spending the vast majority of his twelve season, 219 game VFL career.
		He began his career with Hobart, where he was a member of premiership teams in 1954, 1959 and 1960, won the 1957 William Leitch Medal, and was a dual winner of the club's best and fairest award.
		John Lewis began with North Melbourne when the club was still plying its trade in the VFA, and his status as one of the top ruckmen in that competition was frequently affirmed via selection in Association representative teams.
	www.fullpointsfooty.net /l.htm (10492 words)

	Nickname - Australian Football League
		Retired from the VFL at the end of the 1914 season.
		As this nickname increasingly became a target for derision, the 'Lions' emblem was adopted in 1957 and immediately became popular².
		The nickname was only officially adopted in 1938 but the connection is also said to go back to a song of the late 1880s called The Boys of the Bulldog Breed that the payers adopted as their battle cry.
	home.vicnet.net.au /~nickname/afl.html (1835 words)

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