BALLARAT Football League will add to its hall of fame this year.
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The BFL will induct the latest intake of members at a gala function at Ballarat Leagues Club on Wednesday, July 27.
The BFL hall of fame was launched in 2012, with Allan Abrams (North Ballarat), Peter O'Connell (YCW, East Ballarat and Lake Wendouree), Wilbur "Webber" Jackson (Golden Point, North Ballarat, Ballarat and Ballarat Football Umpires Association), Jim Gull (Daylesford, North Ballarat), John Northey (Redan) and Bill Henderson (North Ballarat) inducted.
Henderson was named a legend.
Inductions are made every two years.
2010: John Orr (North Ballarat), Peter Kiel (Golden Point, Beaufort), Jim Murphy (East Ballarat, BFL, media), Michael Frawley (East Ballarat, North Ballarat), Don Discher (Ballarat), Val Stewart (Redan, Ballarat Imperial) and Chris Parker (Sebastopol). Legend: Jim Gull
2012: Len Templar (Redan, Ballarat), Barry Stevens (Golden Point), Geoff McIlwain (Maryborough), Wayne Cracknell (Bacchus Marsh), Allan Benson (media), George King (BFL). Legend: John Northey
2014: Michael Hallan (East Ballarat), Ian Pym (Redan), Bill Bruhn (Ballarat Football Umpires Association), Sally McLean (Lake Wendouree), Davids Jenkins (Sebastopol, Redan), Danny Roche (East Ballarat). Legend: George King
WHILE on “old-timers” from the Ballarat Football League, there is a bunch of extremely happy former YCW under-18 players from almost 50 years ago.
YCW won the 1969 premiership, but over the years there has been no pennant to show for the achievement.
That finally changed at this year’s reunion when players from that team finally became the recipients of a premiership flag marking the event.
Bernie Colbert, back left, Dennis Haintz, Frank Segrave, Gerard Fogarty, Ned Callahan, Mick Dowd, John Austin; “Tubby” Gravenall, Brendan Britt, Gerard Sheehan, Kevin Robinson, Michael Walsh and John Ciezki are pictured with the new flag.
FOR the record, the jumper clash in the Darley and North Ballarat City senior encounter at Darley on Saturday resulted from a breakdown in communications.
With Darley wearing a special indigenous round jumper, the BFL advised City that it could wear its traditional black and white strip.
North operations and administration manager Lee Prentice told The Courier that they wore the alternative strip for the reserves, but were not asked to wear the senior alternate jumpers.
Darley joined Redan and Bacchus Marsh with special indigenous jumpers.
