Boys Football
Australian Rules Football has been played by our boys since at least 1916 – well over 100 years.
We know of 7 Boys Football teams to win the State Champion title, as well as 4 Senior teams that won the Herald Sun Country Shield.
Our 7 State Titles rank us one of the greatest Football schools in Victoria. We proudly sit Equal 5th all-time of the approximate 300 secondary schools State-wide, since such competition began in 1988. Only 4 schools have won more. No other Country school has more.
Regarding our 4 Herald Sun Country Shield titles, we can’t find a definitive list of winners across history, but our 4 triumphs likely places us high on that list as well
On top of this, 3 more of our Boys teams have finished State Runner-Up (two of them, by single-figure margins), and two teams were Herand Sun Runner-Up.
All 7 State Titles, plus 2 Herald Shields, were claimed in the Golden Era between 1994 and 2005. This coincides with our best era of producing AFL Footballers – 6 of our boys debuted in the AFL between 2001 and 2005.
Individually, 19 of our boys have played at the highest level, the AFL. Incredibly, some of those boys played in the same School Teams, as explained below.
We will soon announce our All Time Team made up of these boys, as well as a Team Of The Last 25 Years (2000-2025).
If anybody has photos or articles of teams we are missing, we would love to get them and include them here.
Email – Jud.Mullins@education.vic.gov.au
State Champion Teams | ||||||
BOYS FOOTBALL, 1988 – | ||||||
TOTALTITLES | JUNIOR | YEAR 7 | YEAR 8 | INTER | SENIOR | |
11 | Maribyrnong C | 6 | 3 | 1 | 1 | |
9 | Melbourne HS | 9 | ||||
Rowville SC | 3 | 2 | 3 | 1 | ||
8 | Essendon Keilor C | 1 | 7 | |||
7 | Wangaratta HS | 2 | 2 | 3 | 1 | |
Bendigo CC | 2 | 4 | 1 | |||
6 | Box Hill SSC | 3 | 3 | |||
5 | Emmanuel C Warrnambool | 1 | 2 | 2 | ||
Frankston HS | 1 | 2 | 2 | |||
Lilydale HS | 1 | 1 | 1 | 2 | ||
4 | Box Hill HS | 4 | ||||
Grovedale C Geelong | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | ||
3 | Catherine McCauley C Bendigo | 3 | ||||
Berwick C | 1 | 1 | 1 | |||
Hallam SC | 2 | 1 | ||||
Notre Dame C Shepparton | 1 | 1 | 1 | |||
Oberon HS Geelong | 2 | 1 | ||||
St Helena SC | 1 | 2 | ||||
Sunbury C | 1 | 1 | 1 | |||
2 | Western Heights C Geelong | 1 | 2 | |||
Brauer C Warrnambool | 1 | 1 | ||||
Northcote HS | 2 | |||||
McKinnon SC | 1 | 1 | ||||
Montmorency SC | 1 | 1 | ||||
St Joseph’s Echuca | 1 | 1 | ||||
Strathmore SC | 1 | 1 | ||||
1 | Patterson Rover SC | 1 | ||||
Viewbank SC | 2 | |||||
Ashwood HS | 1 | |||||
Ballarat HS | 1 | |||||
Benalla C | 1 | |||||
Bendigo SSC | 1 | |||||
Brentwood SC | 1 | |||||
Croydon SC | 1 | |||||
Dromana SC | 1 | |||||
Keilor Heights HS | 1 | |||||
Kingsbury SC | 1 | |||||
Lyndale SC | 1 | |||||
Melton SC | 1 | |||||
Mount Eliza SC | 1 | |||||
Newcomb SC Geelong | 1 | |||||
Parkdale SC | 1 | 1 | ||||
Vermont SC | 1 | |||||
Werribee SC | 1 | |||||
Wodonga HS | 1 | |||||
Wonthaggi SC | 1 | |||||
