The AFL season - one game at a time
Remember this from earlier in the year?
It will be precisely fifty years ago this Saturday to the day – May 13th – that the VFL Little League made its fourteen minute half time debut at VFL football grounds. Blair Campbell was coach, Warwick Nolan was in the yellow and black
Where are they now? Does anyone know?
Warwick Nolan discusses the 1966 Scanlen’s Footy Card series with a few interesting insights.
Warwick Nolan takes us back to 1966, with a fantastic account of Fitzroy’s final ever VFL game at the Brunswick St Oval in the penultimate round of the season. A game Carl Ditterich will remember for all the wrong reasons. [50 year anniversary occasion will be marked at Brunswick Street Oval TOMORROW (Saturday), where Fitzroy play Old Scotch in a crucial VAFA Premier B clash – Ed].
Warwick Nolan recalls ANZAC Day 1966, when a 10 year old journeys to the MCG to watch his Saints do battle with Melbourne
Warwick Nolan writes poignantly of the reunion of 1966 St Kilda premiership players that was held 5 years ago. A celebration of player’s achievements or fan’s memories? The toughest contests are not always on the field.
Daryl Baldock was a genius across many sports, not just footy. Warwick Nolan enquires if anyone has heard of Max Papley who partnered the great man to win a ‘double wicket’ cricket tournament in the 60’s.
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