Remembering football's forgotten club: 100 years since University

By Daniel Cherny
Updated August 23 2014 - 9:13pm, first published 8:18pm
The crowd hovers around the huddle at a University Blues home match at University Oval. Photo: Uni Blues
The crowd hovers around the huddle at a University Blues home match at University Oval. Photo: Uni Blues

If you had to get injured playing football, on the field for University was the place to do it. The club's history, Black & Blue, says 13 members of the University team that took on Collingwood in round 16 of 1909 were either medical students or qualified doctors. Such was life for the long-forgotten club, the only truly amateur team to have played in the professional competition.

August marks the 100th anniversary of University's last game in the VFL. Only 20 clubs have ever played a VFL/AFL game, and only two are defunct (Fitzroy is the other, with the AFL recognising the Brisbane Bears and Lions as the same club in its official records).

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