Australian Football

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KEY FACTS

Official name
Royal Australian Navy Football Club

Known as
Navy

Formed
1944

Disbanded
1947

Affiliation (Historical)
Canberra Australian National Football League (CANFL) 1944–1947

Senior Premierships
Canberra Australian National Football League - 1944 (1 total)

Navy



During its brief, four year involvement in the Canberra National Football League, the Naval team went from a premiership in its debut season to a wooden spoon in its last. The premiership came via a 14.16 (100) to 9.19 (73) Grand Final defeat of Royal Military College, and Navy went within a point of repeating the result in the following year’s play-off against Eastlake. The club was captain-coached in 1944 and 1945 by Fred Green, a former Essendon player who later also played for, and captained, St Kilda.

Source

John Devaney - Full Points Publications


 

Footnotes

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