Introduction
Football history in Victoria has to take the opportunity to include the rich history of country football. Country football has provided many great players to big city clubs and has enormously added to the local community. Football fund raising events, community projects, supporters coming to the game have all added vastly to country towns.The website needed to do more to include country football and at the time I was writing about long kick records which included a kick by Echuca player Les Kew Ming, I had also been writing about Doug Nicholls who came from the area.
As an outsider I knew little of the town’s football history but as I read and researched an interesting story emerged.
Echuca it turned out was a good choice...
Chapters
Overview & The Town
OverviewDrought and Population
The Railway
The Riverine Herald
Echuca Photos 1906 - 1910
Echuca Photos 1940s - 50s
Echuca Photos 2000s
1872 - 1879 - Beginnings and the First Echuca Club
The Cricket Club in the winterThe Formation of Rochester
The Black and Whites
Wednesday Half Holiday Association
Collapse of the club
1878 - 1889 - Echuca Park
The Blue and WhitesThe Bendigo Rivalry
Peter Noble and James Shackell
The Cummeraganja Club
1890- 1896 - Trophy Wars
The Echuca East ClubThe Northern District Football Association
Rochester Rivalry and Dispute
An end to Senior Football in Echuca
1897 - 1908 - The Rise of the Juniors - Echuca
Echuca Juniors become the next Echuca TeamReturn of Senior Football
1909 - 1914 - The Goulburn Valley League
The Athletics Association shows how its doneBill Proudfoot and the misfits
Professionalism
Venues
Victoria Park Oval
The Original Grandstand and scoreboard
The Cycling Track
Electricity
Friendly Societies Ground
Ordnance Factory
Related Biographies
George Ogilvie - by Michael RileyLes Kew Ming – the fighting footballer - By Robert Allen - at australianfootball.com
Doug-Nicholls - by Michael Riley (Note Nicholls never played for Echuca)
Jack Riordan - Shepparton Advertiser (Vic. : 1914 - 1953), , p. 16
Echuca - Useful Links
Echuca Football Club - It’s History, Past and Present - By T.A. Brown (Reprinted from Riverine Herald 1926)Incomplete/Not Released
1915 - 1923 - The Goulburn Valley League
IncompleteThe War Years
Rebuilding
1924 - 1934 - The Bendigo League
IncompleteSuccess
1935 - 1943 - Without a Team
IncompleteDepression
Local League
1944 - 1949 - Patriotic and Local Leagues - Echuca 5
IncompleteRe-emergance
End of the Local League