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KEY FACTS

Official name
Mount Pleasant Football Club

Known as
Mount Pleasant

Former name
York Plains

Former name date
1926-01-01

Formed
1920 as York Plains Football Club; renamed Mt Pleasant in 1926

Colours
Dark and light blue

Emblem
Mounties

Affiliation (Current)
Oatlands District Football Association (ODFA) 1953–2024

Senior Premierships
Oatlands District Football Association - 1953-4-5, 1964, 1971-2-3-4, 1977, 1979-80, 1987, 2003, 2006, 2011, 2013-14 (17 total)

Mount Pleasant

The Mounties were established in 1920 as York Plains Football Club. They assumed their current name of Mount Pleasant in 1926, and enjoyed a fair amount of success during the 1930s, claiming senior grade flags in 1931, 1938 and 1939.

In 1953, Mount Pleasant entered the Oatlands District Football competition, which had been formed the previous year. The club enjoyed immediate success, downing Tunbridge by 24 points in that year’s grand final. Further premierships were claimed in 1954, at the expense of Woodsdale, and 1955 against Parattah.

To date, the Mounties have won seventeen senior grade ODFA flags, a tally bettered only by Woodsdale who have claimed twenty-one. Their greatest decade was the 1970s when they contested all ten grand finals, emerging victorious from six. In 2017 they qualified for the grand final and were favoured to win but opponents Boswell proved too strong. A year later they dropped one place on the premiership ladder after losing the preliminary final to Campania.

Among the many fine players to have represented the club perhaps the most noteworthy was Roger Barwick who was named as the Association’s best and fairest player in 1962, 1963 and 1972, and topped its goal kicking list on three occasions as well.

Source

John Devaney - Full Points Publications


 

Footnotes

* Behinds calculated from the 1965 season on.
+ Score at the end of extra time.