Three teenage girls took Football Victoria and their junior league to the Victorian Civil and Administrative Tribunal in 2003 for the right to keep playing with the boys.
A Football Victoria rule banned girls from playing with boys from age 12, and the trio had more than 300 games between them.
Women's football
About 18 members of the Gawler Football Club split into pinks and blues and played a game among themselves that was kept up with great spirit till dusk.
The pinks kicked the first goal and the blues then kicked two.
Clubs
South Melbourne travelled to Maitland and beat a combined Newcastle and Maitland side 6.9.47 to 5.10.40 at the Albion Ground, watched by about 500 people.
The game was part of a Victorian push to spread the code to every colony.
Clubs
Leigh Matthews felled Barry Cable with an elbow to the head, the first in a series of violent lapses that marked his career.
In 1985 he was deregistered for four weeks and charged with assault over a separate on-field incident.
People
The original wooden grandstand at the Brunswick ground now known as Gillon Oval was destroyed in a deliberately lit fire.
Grounds
Draw
AFL · Round 18 · MCG
Melbourne won by 105 points
VFL · Round 13 · MCG · crowd 10,056
State of Origin
State of Origin · Round 2 · Subiaco Oval · crowd 42,500
300th AFL game, Brisbane v Collingwood
Richmond v South Melbourne, first of 294 VFL/AFL games
GWS v Brisbane, first of 224 VFL/AFL games so far
Geelong v Footscray, first of 216 VFL/AFL games
St Kilda v Fitzroy, first of 182 VFL/AFL games
Geelong v Essendon, first of 162 VFL/AFL games
Richmond v St Kilda, first of 156 VFL/AFL games
Hawthorn, 36 games (2022-2025)
Carlton, 36 games (2023-2026)
Collingwood, 161 games (2017-2026)
Carlton, 59 games (2017-2022)
Melbourne, 209 games (1998-2010)
Fitzroy, 268 games (1971-1984)
Collingwood, 186 games (1969-1981)
Essendon, 196 games (1965-1976)
Collingwood, 171 games (1898-1908)
