Senior premierships have been hard to come by for Beaufort, but one of its most famous will be celebrated at a special event early next month.
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The club has organised an informal 50-year reunion for the team that beat East Ballarat to win the 1969 flag.
That narrow three-point success - achieved in front of a big crowd at the City Oval - proved the club's only triumph in the Ballarat Football League.
"We got to the front with not much time to go," Tom Jess, a player in that grand final, said.
Jess also recalled a telling moment late in the game when John Perkins landed a match-saving tackle shortly before the final siren.
"It was hysteria. They went berserk, the crowd," long-time Crows member Ada Franc said.
Soon after that premiership, Beaufort moved into the Central Highlands competition.
Franc said the reunion was open to any club supporters.
The gathering will take place at Beaufort's home game against Learmonth on Saturday, August 3.
