Wunghnu Football Club
| Full name | Wunghnu Football Netball Club |
|---|---|
| Nickname | The Magpies |
| Strip | Black and white vertical strips |
| Founded | 1874 |
| League | Picola & District Football League
|
| Wunghnu Football Club | |
|---|---|
| Names | |
| Nickname(s) | Magpies |
| Club details | |
| Founded | 1874 |
| Competition | Picola & District Football League |
The Wunghnu Football Club, nicknamed the Magpies, was an Australian rules football club in the small Goulburn Valley town of Wunghnu, Victoria, Australia.
History
It was playing in the
Melbourne.[2]
Wunghnu played from 1888 to 1930 in the
Murray Football League
.
From 1924 to 1928, the Wunghnu and Drumanure Football Clubs merged to form the Drumanure-Wunghnu side.
Wunghnu played in some of the minor competitions around Shepparton until it joined the
Picola & District Football League
in 1951.
Wunghnu celebrated its first premiership in the P&DFL in 1958; a hat-trick of premierships came a few years later, in 1964, 1965 and 1966. Their last Premiership was in 1973.
Players from the club recruited to play in the
Football Premierships
- Goulburn Valley Second Eighteens Football Association
- 1931 [4]
- Picola & District Football League
- 1958, 1964, 1965, 1966, 1973
References
- ^ Wunghnu Football Club in recess
- ^ Full Points Footy. "Picola & District Football League". Retrieved 22 October 2008.
- ^ Anderson, Jon (20 October 2007). "Sellwood mourned". Herald Sun. Retrieved 20 October 2007.
- ^ "1931 - GVSEFA - Grand Final match review". Shepparton Advertiser. 5 October 1931. Retrieved 27 July 2020.
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