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Parkside Football Club 1897/2017

Best 1st year: J. Considine

Best clubman: W. Farrow

Best utility: E. Walker

Attendance at training : S. Waghorne

Boundary Umpire: J. Boulter

Goal umpire: J. Lane

Time keeper: W. Dobbie

First Aid: G. Quinton

Outstanding Service: R. Cameron

Photos to be taken at Hilda Mitchell Studios at 10 am Sunday, 9 September 1951.

Hillier reveals that during the 50’s FDFL decided,

“to ban players who were not in the Bulldogs residential zone from playing” because “Footscray
Football Club was financially subsidising the competition. As a result, in 1950 the competition shrunk
from thirty-nine teams to thirty-three.

The structure of the competition was changed dramatically because of the Footscray allegiance. New
teams came from Yarraville Boys Club and Williamstown High School Old Boys, while Newport and
Sunshine defected to the Metropolitan League.

South Footscray disbanded and Essendon District’s attempt at entry into the League was not
accepted as most of its players were residentially bound to the Essendon VFL team.

Seddon won its first flag by defeating Spotswood, and a young man by the name of Ted Whitten won
the league’s Under 18 Best and Fairest award; the next year he began his illustrious career in the VFL.

The changes continued in ’51, with F & Y Socials withdrawing during the season—as well as
Maidstone A, Seddon B and Yarraville Boys B—meaning there were fourteen walkovers in various
grades. After a forgettable season the league rules were amended to restrict affiliates to a maximum
of fourteen clubs, as well as the requirement that all clubs field a second team of Under 18s.”

History of the WRFL/FDFL / written and compiled by Kevin Hillier, 2007

Once a Parksider, Always a Parksider