Wunghnu Football Club

The Wunghnu Football Club, nicknamed the Magpies, was an Australian rules football club in the small Goulburn Valley town of Wunghnu, Victoria, Australia.

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
Founded1874
CompetitionPicola & District Football League

History

It was playing in the Picola & District Football League until it was forced in 2011 into recess by the VCFL because they were deemed to be uncompetitive.[1] The club was based in the small Victorian town of Wunghnu, which is approximately 200 km north of Melbourne.[2]

Wunghnu played from 1888 to 1930 in the Goulburn Valley Football Association, a forerunner to 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 VFL/AFL include Geelong Football Club 1937 premiership player Joe Sellwood.[3]

Football Premierships

References
  1. Wunghnu Football Club in recess
  2. Full Points Footy. "Picola & District Football League". Retrieved 22 October 2008.
  3. Anderson, Jon (20 October 2007). "Sellwood mourned". Herald Sun. Retrieved 20 October 2007.
  4. "1931 - GVSEFA - Grand Final match review". Shepparton Advertiser. 5 October 1931. Retrieved 27 July 2020.
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