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choconmientay
15-12-2016, 09:31 AM
Reading one of the older article on HS about team selecting their colours (http://www.heraldsun.com.au/news/victoria/how-did-the-victorian-afl-teams-select-their-colours/news-story/5c86c1309857bebc059dc6ca1d614878)

Thas was said about us:


Western Bulldogs

Protest was the reason for the Bulldog’s royal blue, red and white colours.

The Footscray Rowing Club had dominated the Clarke Challenge Cup, an annual rowing event on the Maribyrnong River, in 1879, 1880 and 1881.

Perhaps to nobble Footscray’s dominance of the event, the Victorian Rowing Association changed the rules, barring men in non-sedentary work from participating.

http://cdn.newsapi.com.au/image/v1/ad96458b15d07b2506162db76ea0cab1?width=650
08/08/2003. Robert Sainsbury, who played with Footscray in 1935, holding a jumper from that era, with Western Bulldogs Matthew Croft and Chris Grant, decked out in the Heritage Week jumpers. Digital image.


For working-class, industrial Footscray., it was an enormous blow.

The fledging football club, which had played for a few seasons as the Prince Imperials in navy and white hoops, added a red cap to its uniform for its first season in the Victorian Junior Football Association in 1883, matching the rowing club’s colours, as a form of protest.

A red hoop was added to the jumper in 1886, and the club experimented with sashes and vertical stripes before adopting a design closer to its modern royal blue, red and white in 1901.


Was it really unfolded like it's reported in the HS article?


It was also said:

Collingwood

Fledgling Collingwood toyed with the red, white and blue of the Union Jack but, on a trip to South Australia, an early club supporter noted the use of black and white on the colony’s coat of arms and lobbied for the club to adopt the colours.

The Magpies nickname and the black and white army were born.
Phewww, Collingwood in Red-White&Blue :rolleyes:

BulldogBelle
16-12-2016, 04:24 PM
Could be wrong but weren't we the Prince Imperials first? The Prince Imperial was a relative of Napoleon, French flag - Red White and Blue.

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KT31
16-12-2016, 04:40 PM
Taken from - http://australianfootball.com/clubs/bio/Western+Bulldogs/14


The origins of the Footscray Football Club
Unravelling the origins of the Footscray Football Club is no easy task. As long ago as the 1870s, various clubs bearing the Footscray name appeared, with one such being a founder member of the junior division of the VFA in 1877. Three years later, out of respect for Prince Louis Napoleon, the 'Prince Imperial' of France, who had heroically met his end in 1879 during the Zulu wars, this club changed its name to 'Prince Imperial Football Club'.

The following season saw the emergence of another club in the district, Footscray Excelsior, which soon provided a home for many of the area's better players. In a bid to restore its position as Footscray's leading club, Prince Imperials reverted to its original name before the start of the 1883 season. This, coupled with the likely adoption the same year of the now famous red, white and blue colours, has led to the near universal nomination of 1883 as the inaugural year of the club which today bears the name of Western Bulldogs. However, an objective examination of the facts appears to make it clear that such a demarcation is both convenient and contrived; as with many football clubs originating during the 19th century, identifying a discrete and unambiguous starting point is notoriously difficult.

- See more at: http://australianfootball.com/clubs/bio/Western+Bulldogs/14#sthash.W7DBefoE.dpuf

BulldogBelle
16-12-2016, 05:15 PM
Thanks for that. Some great info there.

bornadog
16-12-2016, 05:24 PM
Being old enough, I went to what was dubbed the Centenary Match between Footscray and Fitzroy in 1983. The game was out at VFL Park

http://i202.photobucket.com/albums/aa198/mmsalih/1983%20doggies_zpsset6zsro.jpg?t=1481782888

The teams:

http://i202.photobucket.com/albums/aa198/mmsalih/1983teams.jpg

bornadog
16-12-2016, 05:27 PM
http://i202.photobucket.com/albums/aa198/mmsalih/the%20game%201983_zps7fefe68p.jpg?t=1481783198