Irrewarra-Beeac Football Netball Club

The Irrewarra club had played all of its football in competitions in and around Colac. They started in the CDFL B grade competition in 1947. They won the 1948 B grade flag. In 1950 there was a mass exodus of clubs from the CDFL, the cause was that the Colac (Hampden league) team wanted to have the right to pick any player from the Colac DFL without needing a clearance. The result was the larger clubs opted to leave and join the Polwarth FL and be away from Colac's reach. With only Alvie and Warrion remaining in A Grade the surviving B Grade clubs combined into a single local competition.

The Beeac club because of its location often had to choose whether to play in a league to the North of the town or play in one in the South. Beeac had two stints in the Western Plains FL 1935-1940 and again from 1950 to 1951. Straight after World War II Beeac was in the CDFL from 1945 to 1949, they followed the other clubs out of the competition and way from Colac's reach. There no doubt that the Colac DFL was a stronger competition than the Western Plains League, after two Grand Finals and 1 flag Beeac opted to spend 12 seasons in the Polwarth FL. It won the Flag in 1956 and returned to the CDFL in 1962 when the Polwarth FL start admitting teams from the Bellarine Peninsula.