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die4pies
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Joined: 07 Nov 2005 Location: Trenerry Cres.
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On Feburary 12th, 1892 a meeting was held at the Collingwood Town Hall for citizens to discuss the posibility of creating a football team to play in the Victorian Football Association (VFA) competition that year. William Beazley chaired the meating in front of packed out Town Hall with several people having to observe proceedings through the windows. It was never really in doubt, the Collingwood Football Club had to happen. Victoria Park was proclaimed the place to play and W. D. Beazley in his first role as club president secured £600 from the council to level and top dress the surface and erect a picket fence around the ground. The VFA approved the club's admission for the 1892 season and the first game was scheduled to be played at Princes Park against our fellow working class club Carlton on Saturday May 7th.
A new grand stand was also scheduled to be built to provide offices and facilities for the players but this would not be opened until mid-June and in the mean time the players used the Yarra Hotel in Johnston Street to change and run up to the ground for the game.
1887 - From the Collingwood Town Hall you can see in the distance the Victoria Park oval.
Carlton, as gesture of good will for the newly formed team, offered to play the first game at Victoria Park. This helped get some much needed cash into the bank for The Club. 16,000 people were reputed to have attend the game, upwards of 7,000 from outside the municipality and many of them women, and even though Carlton won on the day, Collingwood had definitely made its mark and many were left saying that bigger things were just around the corner. The level of business generated on games days along Johnston Street and the surrounding area gave a significant boost to local moral and more importantly cash flow during very bleak economic times which always hit the Collingwood Flat harder than most areas of Melbourne.
The Magpies did not need to wait long to taste success. After a thumping in round 3 to St Kilda at the Junction Oval the Pies travelled down to Gellibrand Oval in round 4 and narrowly beat Williamstown 4 goals to 3. The boys were on the board at last but would finish the season on the bottom of the ladder with just 3 wins from 17 games. The Pies did finish the season on a high beating Carlton in the final round. The wait would not be long to savour the sweet taste of premiership success and after 1896, we became addicted to the taste. _________________ "MAKE COLLINGWOOD GRATE AGAIN" |
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Piesnchess
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Joined: 09 Jun 2008
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My late Grandmother was born one year later in 1893, in Abbotsford, and she told me she danced a couple of times with Dick Lee, at a club function at the Collingwood town hall. Also, im pretty sure that William Beazley is a close relation to ex Labor leader Kim Beazley, now ambassador to the US. I remember Kim talking about him, and about his love for the Pies. No doubt some of those homes in the photo are still there, no doubt totally renovated and owned by Yuppies now. Times change, but I will always have a love for ol Vic Park, spent many Saturdays there in my youth, many great memories of the ol gal, and of Collingwood in general. _________________ Poverty exists not because we cannot feed the poor, but because we cannot satisfy the rich.
Chess and Vodka are born brothers. - Russian proverb. |
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David
I dare you to try
Joined: 27 Jul 2003 Location: Andromeda
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That's a lovely photograph, Shane. That's Johnston St running through the left-hand side of the image, right? Amazing to think we walk the same streets today, 125 years on. _________________ All watched over by machines of loving grace |
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John Wren
"Look after the game. It means so much to so many."
Joined: 15 Jul 2007
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David wrote: | That's a lovely photograph, Shane. That's Johnston St running through the left-hand side of the image, right? Amazing to think we walk the same streets today, 125 years on. |
that first cross street looks like vere st. it is too close to be johnston st and the oval is further away in the shot. _________________ Purveyor of sanctimonious twaddle. |
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Pa Marmo
Side by Side
Joined: 16 Jun 2003 Location: Nicks BB member #617
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Happy birthday to the greatest club in world sporting history. _________________ Genesis 1:1 |
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Warbler
Joined: 12 Mar 2003 Location: Tyaak Vic
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If only the traffic on Hoddle St was like that these days , other than that it's amazing how little it's changed over 3 centuries
Vic Park will always be our spiritual home .
Happy Birthday CFC .
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mattys123
Joined: 07 Jul 2009 Location: Narre Warren, VIC
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Happy Birthday to the biggest, brightest and best football club in the world.
Oh, and happy birthday to Dayne Beams too, nice coincidence. |
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roar
Joined: 01 Sep 2004
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Can't wait to see my wife roll hers eyes when I tell her our anniversary falls on the same day as Collingwood's birthday. _________________ kill for collingwood! |
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Jezza
2023 PREMIERS!
Joined: 06 Sep 2010 Location: Ponsford End
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Happy 121st Birthday to the Greatest Football Club in the world. Hopefully the next 121 years are even better.
Great photo Die4Pies _________________ | 1902 | 1903 | 1910 | 1917 | 1919 | 1927 | 1928 | 1929 | 1930 | 1935 | 1936 | 1953 | 1958 | 1990 | 2010 | 2023 | |
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