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Parkside Football Club 1897/2017

From 1899 to 1901, three years in succession, Parkside were premiers, the competition
being discontinued the following year. Some members of this combination were "Bair"
Stead, who inter played with University, which afterwards became Carlton, "Corker" Groves,
who appeared with Footscray and Essendon, Tommy Cairns, McBride, Jimmie Pascarl and

W. Trythall, all fine footballers.

Roy Cotton, one of the most familiar old-time footballers to Footscrayites, played with
Monas in the same competition.

Success at Cricket

The next record of a Parkside team was at the beginning of the war, when there was a
cricket and football team. The cricketers carried off the premiership in the 1914-15 season.

The premiership of the Williamstown and Footscray District Association was the 1915
objective. After winning its way to the four, and a good victory in the semi-final, the team

went under by two points to Seasiders, of Williamstown, in the play off. Frank Davidson and
“Bill” Considine, who latter played with Footscray and North Melbourne respectively,
appeared with the team that year. Tom Jennings also played senior footballs going to the St.
Kilda League team. Jack Connelly, now well known in local tennis and Otto Necker, who later
won fame as a pedestrian, were star performers.

Several of the team were brilliant runners, Otto Necker taking third place in the Stawell Gift,
and Will Stewart, Les Taylor, Jack Connelly and others winning many finals at Gurney's.

Senior Players Turned Out

Some of the players in other teams in the competition, who later rose to senior rank, were

Jack O'Brien, Johnny Martin, Wally Fraser and George Thompson (Footscray), Bob Rell
(Essendon and Yarraville), J. Walker (Essendon), "Chook" Far McAuliffe and Krygger
(Williamstown).

Owing to the intervention of the war and its call on players, the club disbanded in 1916.

After the war, the team was re-organised, matches being played all over the metropolitan
area. The 1922 team was undefeated. In 1923 a competition was entered for the first time
since the war period. Under coach Doug Johnstone, who later played full-back for

Once a Parksider, Always a Parksider