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	Bambooweb: Melbourne Football Club
		Founded in 1858, it is the oldest football club in Australia and is one of the oldest in the world.
		The group which became the MFC came together informally on August 7,1858 and the club was formally established in 1859.
		The underlying problem for Melbourne and the other older clubs is that the new Australian Football League, a 16-team national competition, has left too many clubs in Melbourne, a city which despite its great tradition of passionate support for Australian Rules Football, cannot financially support ten clubs competing against wealthy and successful interstate newcomers.
	www.bambooweb.com /articles/m/e/Melbourne_Football_Club.html (1195 words)

	NationMaster - Encyclopedia: Melbourne Football Club (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Founded in 1858, it is the oldest football club in Australia and is one of the oldest in the world.
		Melbourne (pronounced either or [1]) is the state capital and largest city in the Australian state of Victoria, and the second-largest city in Australia, with a population of approximately 3.
		Melbourne University Football Club – often known simply as "University" – is an Australian rules football club, which played in the game's most elite competition in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, including the Victorian Football League (or VFL, the forerunner of the AFL).
	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Melbourne-Football-Club (562 words)

	Melbourne Football Club
		The Melbourne Football Club, known in their early days as The Redlegs and since 1933 as The Demons, is an Australian Rules Football club in Melbourne, Australia.
		The group which became the MFC came together in 1858 and the club was formally established in 1859, playing in what became the Victorian Football Association.
		Melbourne's greatest player of these years was Ivor Warne-Smith, who in 1926 won the club's first Brownlow Medal (the League's annual award for the best and fairest player).
	www.fact-index.com /m/me/melbourne_football_club.html (1029 words)

	Melbourne Football Club
		The Melbourne Football Club, known by their nickname The Demons, is the oldest Australian rules football club in the world.
		An offshoot of the Melbourne Cricket Club[?], owners of the Melbourne Cricket Ground, its first affiliated competition began in 1858 and the club was formalised in 1859, playing in what became the Victorian Football Association.
		In the mid 1990s, the club almost merged with Hawthorn, but the merger was defeated.
	www.ebroadcast.com.au /lookup/encyclopedia/me/Melbourne_Football_Club.html (198 words)

	Phoenix in Dees 'super club' - News - www.realfooty.com.au
		The union of the Melbourne AFL club and the Melbourne Phoenix — who are likely to be renamed the Melbourne Phoenix Demons and begin wearing the traditional red and blue of the Demons — is the first formal partnership to be signed under the move towards Team Melbourne.
		The partnership between football and netball has been sealed with a memorandum of understanding signed by the boards of both clubs for an initial three-year deal from next year, cementing at the highest level the traditional synthesis between football and netball clubs.
		Melbourne Phoenix will move their training home from the State Hockey Centre in Parkville to new facilities being built in the Olympic Park precinct, which will include netball courts next to the rectangular arena being built for the Melbourne Storm and Melbourne Victory.
	www.theage.com.au /realfooty/news/afl/phoenix-in-dees-super-club/2006/06/22/1150845314573.html (611 words)

	Melbourne
		Australian football is often described as having commenced in 1858, the same year that saw the formation of the Melbourne Football Club; indeed, an inference is often drawn to the effect that the two events were more or less simultaneous.
		Football of various sorts had been played in Melbourne for at least twenty years (see footnote 2) by the time, late in the winter of 1858, that the Melbourne Football Club came semi-formally into existence, and it would continue to manifest itself in many different ways for quite a few years yet.
		Melbourne, as one of the stronger inner city clubs which was dissatisfied with the status quo, was an important and influential member of the breakaway group, and after a slow start to its League career in 1897, began to show signs of improving the following year.
	www.fullpointsfooty.net /melbourne.htm (2225 words)

	Melbourne
		In the clubs early years, it was not allowed to play matches on the Melbourne Cricket Ground because the MCC thought that football would cause to much damage to the ground.
		Melbourne’s form slipped in 1895 when the media claimed they were over trained and that their performances picked up " when the majority of them (players) had practically ceased to train".
		Melbourne won 3 premierships in a row from 1939 to 1941, it was the clubs first golden era.
	www.fortunecity.com /olympia/afl/229/mel.html (682 words)

	Melbourne Football Club (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		However, the claim of "professionalism" is contentious, as the Victorian Football League did not officially allow professional players until Rule 29 was passed in 1911 and for many years Melbourne was a proudly amateur club.
		The underlying problem for Melbourne and the other older clubs is that the new Australian Football League, a 16-team national competition, has left too many clubs in Melbourne, a city which despite its great tradition of passionate support for Australian Rules Football, cannot financially support ten clubs competing against wealthy and successful interstate newcomers.
		Melbourne has an additional vulnerability, in that it is yet to establish a permanent home base, with current administration, training and social bases scattered around various venues of the MCG, Junction Oval and the Bentleigh Club.
	www.info-pedia.net /about/melbourne_football_club (1318 words)

	Go Dees!!
		Melbourne Football Club approached Melbourne Cricket Club with a suggestion that it be merged into the Cricket Club.
		W.C. McClelland is appointed Chairman of the Melbourne Football Club.
		Melbourne finished fourth and to their credit made the Grand Final only to be defeated by a strong Footscray side.
	members.fortunecity.com /jseigel/history.htm (2734 words)

	Demons jolted by $2m loss - www.realfooty.com.au
		Melbourne Football Club's financial trauma has spiralled again, with the Demons on the verge of announcing to their members a 2003 loss of almost $2 million, significantly the worst result of the 16 AFL clubs.
		Melbourne's president-elect Paul Gardner has learnt only this week the full severity of the club's financial crisis and yesterday would not rule out turning to the AFL for a $1 million hand-out from the league's competitive balance fund.
		Ellis, who said in June that the club would make a six-figure profit, is understood to have been given the benefit of the doubt in the short term given that he took over at Melbourne only 12 months ago.
	www.theage.com.au /articles/2003/11/12/1068329630263.html (543 words)

	NORTH MELBOURNE FOOTBALL CLUB
		Formed soon after the formation of the first set of rules for Australian football it can be said to be one of the oldest football clubs in Australia and indeed one of the oldest football clubs, of any code in the world.
		In 1888 the club once again became the North Melbourne Football Club after Hotham municipality changed its name to North Melbourne in order to cash in on the reputation Melbourne had gained throughout the world.
		In 1896 a breakaway group saw the establishment of the Victorian Football League (VFL) from which North Melbourne was excluded mainly through the opposition of the Collingwood Football Club which had not forgiven North for a controversial game in which they had met.
	www.geocities.com /shinboner_99/north1.htm (1060 words)

	North Melbourne Football Club : Kangaroos - A.F.L Clubs of Melbourne - Australian Rules Football - Sport & Recreation - ...
		Melbourne inventions include the Black Box Flight Recorder and the Bionic Ear to...
		While the Club claims no actual 'founder', James Henry Gardiner is widely recognised as the key figure in establishing the Club in its formative years.
		While we are and always shall remain the North Melbourne Football Club, fully capitalising on the Club's long-standing nickname the Kangaroo - a true Australian icon - is believed to provide significant opportunities in developing an Australia-wide profile.
	www.onlymelbourne.com.au /melbourne_details.php?id=4713 (492 words)

	Melbourne Rowing Club Inc history of Victoria's second oldest rowing club
		Melbourne Rowing Club was founded in 1862 and is the second oldest club in Victoria.
		Despite a very successful period in the 1860s and 1870s, the club declined in the latter part of the century and was approached by the Melbourne Amateur Athletics Club to become an amalgamated entity freeing the club from all its debts.
		When the club finally decided to refocus on competitive rowing, World War I took all but 20 of 100 members to serve the country, depleting club numbers to a similar state to that prior to the turn of the century.
	www.melbournerowing.com.au /history.shtml (751 words)

	Melbourne Demons - the rust bucket of Australia
		Initially known as the 'Invincible Whites', the Melbourne Football Club was formed in 1858 to represent the Melbourne Cricket Club.
		As the league was targeted at cricketers wanting to keep fit in the winter, Melbourne's cricketing associations ensured that it had a establishment image that was attractive to the new inductees to the code.
		Not surprisingly, whereas rival clubs promoted egalitarian values that attracted support from all walks of life, Melbourne's supporter base was largely confined to wealthy people whose only passion was for status.
	www.convictcreations.com /football/melbourne.htm (1150 words)

	A Club is Born
		The South Melbourne club formed in 1867 became Emerald-Hill in 1868 and Albert Park the following year, and what "Buck" Wheatley's recollections do not reveal is that the reason for the changes were probably a social issue.
		A new South Melbourne emerged in 1874 and after a couple of unsuccesful attempts, the club that we remember came with an amalgamation in 1880 of Albert Park and South Melbourne, where the Albert Park club's colours were retained, but the latter name adopted.
		As well as the struggle over the name, the narrative gives a first-hand account of the reluctance of the cricket club committees to let football onto their grounds, and in turn, directly highlights the reason why they were ultimately forced to do so.
	www.users.bigpond.com /northernbullants/TextsGame/1867BuckWheatley.html (1494 words)

	North Melbourne Football Club (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		The Kangaroos Football Club, formerly the North Melbourne Football Club, and informallyknown as the Shinboners or the Kangaroos plays Australian rules football in the Australian Football League.
		A club starved of success until Ron Barassi was appointed coach in 1974.His ruthless and inspiring coaching methods brought success in his second (1975) and fourth(1977) years as coach.
		The club had its greatest on-field success of any decade in the 1990s, with a simplegame plan devised by ruthless coach Dennis Pagan implemented around star forward Wayne Carey.
	www.therfcc.org /north-melbourne-football-club-296711.html (135 words)

	Primus > Demons - Australia's leading Broadband Internet, Telephone, Mobile, VoIP and Dial Up provider
		The Melbourne Football Club has embraced Primus Telecom sponsorship deal, ClubCall, which offers supporters the chance to switch their home phone service to the low-cost carrier in exchange for a monthly donation to the club.
		Importantly for the club, this deal is not just a once-off - every time a customer makes a call, they will be making a financial contribution to their footy club.
		Melbourne Football Club skipper David Neitz said he and all his team-mates were leading the way by switching phone carriers.
	www.primustel.com.au /PrimusWeb/AboutUs/Sponsorships/Demons.htm (397 words)

	Kangaroos Football Club : North Melbourne Football Club
		The Kangaroos Football Club, formerly the North Melbourne Football Club, and informally known as the Shinboners or the Kangaroos plays Australian rules football in the Australian Football League.
		It is based at the Arden Street oval in the inner Melbourne suburb of North Melbourne, but plays its home matches at the Melbourne Cricket Ground and, occasionally, Docklands Stadium[?] or Princes Park[?].
		The club had its greatest on-field success of any decade in the 1990s, with a simple game plan devised by ruthless coach Dennis Pagan implemented around star forward Wayne Carey.
	www.fastload.org /no/North_Melbourne_Football_Club.html (154 words)

	Melbourne Victory
		Melbourne Victory today continued its preparations for the upcoming Hyundai A-League 2007/08 season, announcing that goalkeeper Michael Theoklitos has signed with the club for a further two years.
		Melbourne Football Operations Manager Gary Cole said the club was pleased to retain Theoklitos after his outstanding performance as first choice goalkeeper throughout Victory’s 2006/07 campaign.
		Melbourne Victory are are in the process of signing former England Under 21 Joe Keenan.
	www.melbournevictory.net (879 words)

	Burnie Football Club Official Website
		Luke was drafted to the Collingwood Football Club at the end of the 2002 season.
		Brad was drafted to the Fitzroy Football Club at the end of the 1990 season where he spent 3 seasons and played 5 senior games.
		Brendon was recruited by the Richmond Football Club at the end of season 1987 after playing the 1 st year of the Burnie Hawks in State-wide football.
	www.burniedockers.com.au /AFLplayers.htm (1024 words)

	MCG - Article
		In these formative years, Melbourne was the dominant force of the competition and was known as the 'invincible whites' playing many of their games on the MCG until 1873, when the MCC banned football from the arena because of damage caused.
		The club's next success in 1939 also came at the expense of the Magpies, and was followed by two more victories in '40 and '41.
		This victory was a precursor of the enormous success the club was to have in the 1950s and early 1960s.
	www.mcg.org.au /default.asp?pg=footballdisplay&articleid=533 (623 words)

	Stuart Spencer - A FortiesTasmanian Football Legend
		He was also club leading goalkicker in both of those years with 42 goals and kicked a total of 146 while with the Redlegs.
		During his football career in Tasmania he won many awards and is the only player to have won the Lefroy medal twice.
		On the 24th June 2000 at a gala event in Melbourne Stuart Spencer was named in the position of rover in Melbourne Football Clubs Team of the Century joining other Tasmanian football legends Bob "Tassie" Johnson and Ivor Warne Smith in receiving this honour.
	www.footballlegends.org /stuart_spencer.htm (782 words)

	TEAC Australia - Sponsorship
		TEAC has great pleasure to announce that we have just reviewed the partnership arrangement with Port Melbourne Football Club and both parties have agreed to continue the partnership for the 2006 season.
		The TEAC name has been synonymous not only with the Port Melbourne Football Club but also within the Victorian Football League, associate State Leagues and the AFL.
		In 1886, the club was admitted to the Victorian Football Association (now the Victorian Football League) making it one of the oldest and most famous football clubs in Australia.
	www.teac.com.au /pages/sponsorship (118 words)

	Canberra ZPages
		Trendy club and bar in the heart of Canberra City.
		The Brumbies are a 1st grade league side with their club in Canberra.
		The Eastlake Football Club is the oldest football club in ACT operating under its original name and in terms of regional football is the second oldest to Queanbeyan.
	canberra.zpages.com.au (278 words)

	DEMONLAND - History
		The Melbourne Football Club had lost a number of its playing members in the Great War and in 1919, when the team the field again after a break of three seasons, it lacked the experienced players to be competitive losing all of its matches.
		Melbourne was recognised as the team to beat with a dominant centre line of Dixon, Mithen and McLean, a dynamic ruck rover in Barassi, a solid ruckman in Bob Johnson and pacy rovers in Adams and Ridley.
		Melbourne had hoped to redraft David Williams who had been out for a couple of seasons with a knee injury but were beaten to him by Richmond, which had an earlier selection in the pre season draft.
	www.demonland.com /History.htm (11731 words)

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