Australian Football

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.