Benalla Tungamah Football League
The Benalla Tungamah Football League (TBFL) was established in May, 1938, from the following North Eastern Victoria, Australian Rules Football clubs - Benalla, Devenish, Katamatite, St. James, Tungamah and Yabba - Dookie.[2]
| General Information | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Founded | 1938 as the Benalla Tungamah Football League[1] | ||
| Name Changes | 1967 - Tungamah Football League |
1996 - Goulburn Valley Football League - Division Two |
1999 - Central Goulburn Football League |
| Folded | 2005 after 67 seasons | ||
History
The Benalla Tungamah Football League (TBFL) was established in May, 1938, from the following North Eastern Victoria, Australian Rules Football clubs - Benalla, Devenish, Katamatite, St. James, Tungamah and Yabba - Dookie.
This newly formed league came about when Mulwala Football Club left the Benalla Mulwala Football League to join the Coreen & District Football League in 1938.[3]
The BTFL went into recess from 1940 to 1947 due to World War Two and was reformed in March, 1948.[4]
In 1951, 12 teams competed in the BTFL.[5]
Benalla made six grand finals in their seven years in the BTFL, winning three premierships, before Benalla and Wangaratta reserves sides both entered the Ovens and Murray Football League's newly formed seconds competition in 1953.
The BTFL changed its name to the Tungamah Football League in 1967.
In 1996, the league changed its name to the Goulburn Valley Football League - Division Two competition. The GVFL absorbed the clubs from the Tungamah FL and had a second division for three years (1996–1998).
Then in 1999, the league's name was changed to the Central Goulburn Football League, which lasted until 2005, when club's went into other competitions under the demise of the VCFL.
The Lawless family donated a medal to the senior football best and fairest winners from 1954 to 2005, across the four football league name changes.
Interestingly, Alexandra's George Steiner won three league best and fairest Lawless Medals, one in each of the following - Tungamah FL - 1994, Goulburn Valley - Divison Two - 1996 and Central Goulburn FL - 2000.
Clubs
- Benalla Tungamah Football League (1938 to 1966)
- Benalla Seniors: 1938 & 1939
- Benalla Reserves: 1948 to 1952
- Congupna: 1962 to 1966
- Devenish: 1938 to 1962
- Dookie: 1949 to 1966
- Dookie College: 1952 to 1966
- Dookie Yabba: 1938 & 1939
- Invergordon 1952
- Katamatite: 1938 & 1939, 1956 to 1966
- Katrandra: 1952 to 1966
- Mulwala: 1948 to 1966
- North Wangaratta: 1951 & 1952 ?
- St. James: 1938 to 1955
- Tungamah: 1938 to 1966
- Violet Town: 1950 to 1966
- Wangaratta Seconds' XVIII: 1949 to 1952
- Wilby: 1951 to 1966
- Tungamah Football League (1967 to 1995)
- Alexandra: 1986 to 1995
- Benalla All Blacks: 1981 to 1995
- Congupna: 1967 to 1995
- Dookie: 1967 to 1976
- Dookie College: 1967 to 1976
- Dookie United: 1977 to 1995
- Katamatite: 1967 to 1994
- Katrandra: 1967 to 1995
- Mansfield: 1977 to 1995
- Mulwala: 1967 to 1986
- Shepparton East: 1968 to 1995
- Thornton Eildon: 1995
- Tungamah: 1967 to 1994
- Violet Town: 1967 to 1977
- Wilby: 1967 to 1970
- Goulburn Valley Football League - Division Two (1996 to 1998)
- Alexandra:
- Benalla All Blacks: 1996 to 1998
- Congupna: 1996 only
- Dookie United: 19
- Mansfield: 1996 to 1997. Entered the GVFNL - Divison One in 1998.
- Rumbalara: 1997 & 1998
- Shepparton East:
- Thornton Eildon:
- Violet Town: 19
- Yea: 1998
- Central Goulburn Football League (1999 to 2005)
- Alexandra:
- Benalla All Blacks: 1999 to 2004. Entered the Ovens & King Football League in 2005.
- Dookie United:
- Rumbalara:
- Shepparton East:
- Thornton Eildon:
- Violet Town:
- Yea:
Honourboard
- Benalla - Tungamah Football League
- 1938 to 1966.
- Senior Football
| Year | Premiers | Score | Runners Up | Score | Venue | Most Goals | Club | Comments |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1938 | Tungamah | 11.12 - 78 | Benalla 1sts | 9.8 - 62 | St. James | [6] | ||
| 1939 | Benalla 1sts | 15.16 - 106 | Dookie Yabba | 6.13 - 49 | Devenish | [7]Undefeated Premiers | ||
| 1940-47 | BTFL in recess | BTFL in recess. WW2 | ||||||
| 1948 | St. James | 10.8 - 68 | Benalla 2nds | 2.5 - 17 | Devenish | [8] | ||
| 1949 | St. James | 10.12 - 72 | Benalla 2nds | 7.15 - 57 | Devenish | [9] | ||
| 1950 | Benalla 2nds | 8.16 - 64 | Dookie | 8.13 - 61 | ? | [10] | ||
| 1951 | Wangaratta 2nds | 21.17 - 143 | Burramine | 2.3 - 15 | Benalla Showgrounds | [11] | ||
| 1952 | Benalla 2nds | 13.12 - 90 | Violet Town | 11.16 - 82 | ? | [12] [13] | ||
| 1953 | Burramine | 8.21 - 69 | Dookie College | 8.2 - 50 | Tungamah | [14] [15] | ||
| 1954 | Burramine | 11.8 - 74 | Dookie College | 9.11 - 65 | St. James | P O'Kane - 68 | Burramine | [16] |
| 1955 | Katandra | ? | Burramine | ? | ? | |||
| 1956 | Katandra | ? | Mulwala | ? | ? | |||
| 1957 | Katandra | ? | Dookie College | ? | ? | |||
| 1958 | Katandra | ? | Mulwala | ? | ? | |||
| 1959 | Mulwala | ? | Violet Town | ? | ? | |||
| 1960 | Violet Town | ? | Katandra | ? | ? | |||
| 1961 | Violet Town | ? | Mulwala | ? | ? | |||
| 1962 | Dookie | ? | Congupna | ? | ? | |||
| 1963 | Congupna | ? | Mulwala | ? | ? | |||
| 1964 | Congupna | ? | Tungamah | ? | ? | |||
| 1965 | Dookie | 11.9 - 75 | Congupna | 7.10 - 52 | ? | |||
| 1966 | Katandra | 9.5 - 59 | Katamatite | 6.9 - 51 | ? | |||
- Tungamah Football League
- 1967 to 1995
| Year | Premiers | Score | Runners Up | Score | Venue | Most Goals | Club | Comments |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1967 | Wilby | 11.16 - 82 | Congupna | 7.12 - 58 | ||||
| 1968 | Mulwala | 13.17 - 95 | Wilby | 5.8 - 38 | ||||
| 1969 | Mulwala | 15.15 - 105 | Dookie College | 10.11 - 71 | ||||
| 1970 | Dookie College | 13.8 - 86 | Katandra | 11.11 - 77 | ||||
| 1971 | Congupna | |||||||
| 1972 | Shepparton East | 13.12 - 90 | Katandra | 10.13 - 73 | ||||
| 1973 | Katandra | |||||||
| 1974 | Katandra | 11.9 - 75 | Mulwala | 8.12 - 60 | ||||
| 1975 | Katandra | 19.23 - 137 | Congupna | ? | ||||
| 1976 | Tungamah | Les Parish | Tungamah | |||||
| 1977 | Katandra | 15.12 - 72 | Dookie United | 14. ? | ||||
| 1978 | Congupna | |||||||
| 1979 | Katamatite | 17.11 - 113 | Katandra | 14.15 - 99 | ||||
| 1980 | Shepparton East | 19.13 - 127 | Katandra | 13.12 - 80 | ||||
| 1981 | Benalla All Blacks | 20.11 - 131 | Shepparton East | 13.10 - 88 | ||||
| 1982 | Shepparton East | 18.14 - 110 | Congupna | 14.12 - 96 | ||||
| 1983 | Katandra | 20.18 - 136 | Mansfield | 14.13 - 97 | ||||
| 1984 | Katandra | 18.15 - 123 | Benalla All Blacks | 14.9 - 93 | ||||
| 1985 | Shepparton East | 19.10 - 124 | Benalla All Blacks | 11.14 - 80 | ||||
| 1986 | Tungamah | 13.11 - 89 | Katandra | 10.13 - 73 | ||||
| 1987 | Mansfield | |||||||
| 1988 | Alexandra | |||||||
| 1989 | Mansfield | 12.19 - 91 | Katandra | 8.9 - 57 | ||||
| 1990 | Katandra | |||||||
| 1991 | Congupna | |||||||
| 1992 | Katandra | |||||||
| 1993 | Congupna | |||||||
| 1994 | Shepparton East | |||||||
| 1995 | Shepparton East | Benalla All Blacks | ||||||
- Goulburn Valley Football League
- Division Two
- 1996 to 1998
| Year | Premiers | Score | Runners Up | Score | Venue | Most Goals | Club | Comments |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1996 | Mansfield | |||||||
| 1997 | Alexandra | |||||||
| 1998 | Rumbalara | 21.18 - 124 | Alexandra | 14.10 - 94 | ||||
| 1999 | GVFL - Div 2, changed to CGFL | |||||||
- Central Goulburn Football League
- 1999 to 2005
| Year | Premiers | Score | Runners Up | Score | Venue | Most Goals | Club | Comments |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1999 | Rumbalara | 16.11 - 107 | Shepparton East | 11.12 - 78 | ||||
| 2000 | Alexandra | |||||||
| 2001 | Shepparton East | 19.12 - 126 | Yea | 10.10 - 70 | ||||
| 2002 | Rumbalara | 17.9 - 111 | Yea | 16.9 - 105 | ||||
| 2003 | Shepparton East | |||||||
| 2004 | Yea | ? Violet Town | ||||||
| 2005 | Yea | 9.12 - 66 | Rumbalara | 8.9 - 57 | B.Firebrace: 62 | Rumbalara | ||
Senior Football Best & Fairest Awards
- Benalla Tungamah Football League
- 1938 to 1966
- The Lawless Family Medal
The Lawless Family Medal for the BTFL senior football best and fairest award was first donated in 1954, by John J. Lawless - Senior, with the winner receiving a canteen of cutlery.
| Year | Winner | Club | Votes | Runners Up | Club | Votes | Comments |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1954 | N Elliott | Tungamah | 28 | Harry Brittain & | Katandra | 22 | [17] |
| L Squires | Mulwala | 21 | |||||
| 1955 | L Squires | Mulwala | |||||
| 1956 | Harry Brittain | Katandra | |||||
| 1957 | J Clancy | Burramine | |||||
| 1958 | L Gleeson | Burramine | |||||
| 1959 | M Hughes | Burramine | |||||
| 1960 | N Trewin | Katamatite | |||||
| 1961 | H Davidson | Violet Town | |||||
| 1962 | J Clancy | Burramine | |||||
| 1963 | Harry Brittain | Congupna | |||||
| 1964 | T Donovan | Mulwala | |||||
| 1965 | E Donovan | Dookie College | |||||
| 1966 | Lance McMillan | Violet Town | |||||
- Tungamah Football League
- 1967 to 1995
- The Lawless Family Medal
| Year | Winner | Club | Votes | Runners Up | Club | Votes | Comments |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1967 | T Murphy | Katamatite | |||||
| 1968 | Tony Putt | Dookie | |||||
| 1969 | R Henderson & | Shepparton East | |||||
| T Murphy | Katamatite | ||||||
| 1970 | J Walduck | Dookie College | |||||
| 1971 | D Read | Dookie College | |||||
| 1972 | V Edwards & | Violet Town | |||||
| R Henderson | Shepparton East | ||||||
| 1973 | S Jacques | Shepparton East | |||||
| 1974 | S Jacques | Shepparton East | |||||
| 1975 | S Jacques | Shepparton East | |||||
| 1976 | Les Parish | Tungamah | |||||
| 1977 | B Cooper | Mulwala | |||||
| 1978 | Bernie Lonergan | Katamatite | |||||
| 1979 | P J Cooper & | Tungamah | |||||
| Andy Alterton | Katamatite | ||||||
| 1980 | Damien Drum | Congupna | |||||
| 1981 | P J Cooper | Tungamah | |||||
| 1982 | Andy Alterton | Katamatite | |||||
| 1983 | Chris Drum | Congupna | |||||
| 1984 | John Brunner | Benalla All Blacks | |||||
| 1985 | John Brunner | Benalla All Blacks | |||||
| 1986 | Gary Cameron & | Katamatite | |||||
| John Tossol | Alexandra | ||||||
| 1987 | Bruce McCormack | Mansfield | |||||
| 1988 | Bruce McCormack | Mansfield | |||||
| 1989 | John Tossol | Alexandra | |||||
| 1990 | G Currie | Benalla All Blacks | |||||
| 1991 | G Mifka & | Tungamah | |||||
| A Walker | Alexandra | ||||||
| 1992 | Noel Coutts | Violet Town | |||||
| 1993 | J Keady & | Shepparton East | |||||
| John Martinello | Benalla All Blacks | ||||||
| 1994 | George Steiner | Alexandra | |||||
| 1995 | S Joyce | Congupna | |||||
Goulburn Valley Football League - Division Two
- 1996 to 1998
- The Lawless Family Medal
| Year | Winner | Club | Votes | Runners Up | Club | Votes | Comments |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1996 | George Steiner | Alexandra | |||||
| 1997 | Denis Sheahan | Mansfield | |||||
| 1998 | Chris Pollard | Yea | |||||
Central Goulburn Football League
- 1999 to 2005
- The Lawless Family Medal
| Year | Winner | Club | Votes | Runners Up | Club | Votes | Comments |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1999 | Chris Ludeman | Dookie United | |||||
| 2000 | George Steiner | Alexandra | |||||
| 2001 | Noel Coutts | Violet Town | |||||
| 2002 | Leighthen Briggs & | Rumbalara | |||||
| Luke Maher | Dookie United | ||||||
| 2003 | Matthew Sharpe | Violet Town | |||||
| 2004 | Michael Bretherton | Alexandra | |||||
| 2005 | Scott Greig | Dookie United | |||||
External links
References
- Footypedia
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- "1938 - Benalla Mulwala Football League - AGM". Trove Newspapers. The Age. Retrieved 25 June 2020.
- "1948 - League reformed". Trove Newspapers. Benalla Ensign. Retrieved 21 June 2020.
- "1951 - Benalla Tungamah FL - Draw". Trove Newspapers. Benalla Ensign. Retrieved 21 June 2020.
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- "1949 - Benalla Tungamah FL - Grand Final match review". Trove Newspapers. Benalla Ensign. Retrieved 21 June 2020.
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- "1953 - Benalla Tungamah FL - Grand Final match review". Trove Newspapers. Benalla Ensign. Retrieved 22 June 2020.
- "1953 - Benalla Tungamah FL - Grand Final match preview". Trove Newspapers. Benalla Ensign. Retrieved 21 June 2020.
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