Victorian Football League Clubs - Former Victorian Football League Clubs, Box Hill Hawks Football Club, Northern Bullants (Paperback)

Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 29. Chapters: Former Victorian Football League clubs, Box Hill Hawks Football Club, Northern Bullants, Port Melbourne Football Club, Coburg Football Club, Collingwood Football Club, Geelong West Football Club, Casey Scorpions, Heidelberg Football Club, Caulfield Football Club, Williamstown Football Club, Yarraville Football Club, Frankston Football Club, North Ballarat Football Club, Oakleigh Football Club, Sandringham Football Club, Camberwell Football Club, Castlemaine Football Club, Prahran Football Club, Brunswick Football Club, Murray Kangaroos Football Club, Moorabbin Football Club, Brighton Football Club, Albert Park Football Club, Essendon Association Football Club, Mordialloc Football Club, Werribee Football Club, Waverley Football Club, Bendigo Bombers, Northcote Football Club, Sunshine Football Club, Dandenong Football Club, Rochester Football Club, West Melbourne Football Club, Geelong VFL Football Club. Excerpt: Box Hill Hawks Football Club is an Australian rules football club playing in the Victorian Football League. It has an alliance with the Hawthorn Football Club which plays in the Australian Football League. Organised Australian rules football within the municipality of Box Hill can be traced back to the year 1903. In that year Mr EFG Hodges, the proprietor of the "Reporter" newspaper, founded the "Reporter District Football Association." The six foundation teams were Bayswater, Box Hill, Canterbury, Ferntree Gully, Mitcham and Ringwood. This Box Hill team played on a ground approximately 400 metres south of where Box Hill City Oval is located today, the site is now partly occupied by the Box Hill High School and the Box Hill Cemetery. This team is wholly unrelated to the Box Hill Hawks Football Club of today but was the first team to be known as Box Hill and was the first Australian rules football team in the ...