Box Hill Football Club
| Box Hill Hawks | |
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| Names | |
| Full name | Box Hill Hawks Football Club |
| Nickname(s) | Hawks, Mustangs |
| Club details | |
| Founded | 1936 |
| Colours | Brown and Gold |
| Competition | Victorian Football League |
| President | Tony Pinwill (2016) |
| Coach | Chris Newman (2017) |
| Captain(s) | David Mirra (2016) |
| Premierships |
Senior Grade - 7 Reserves Grade - 5 Thirds Grade - 2 |
| Ground(s) | Box Hill City Oval (capacity: 12,000) |
| Other information | |
| Official website | www.boxhillhawks.com.au |
Senior Grade - 7
1939 (ESFL), 1945 (ESFL), 1946 (ESFL), 1984 (VFA Division Two), 1986 (VFA Division Two), 2001 (VFL), 2013 (VFL)
Reserves Grade - 5
2006 (VFL), 2009 (VFL), 2010 (VFL), 2011 (VFL), 2016 (VFL)
Thirds Grade - 2
Box Hill Hawks Football Club is an Australian rules football club playing in the Victorian Football League. It has an alliance with the Hawthorn Football Club which plays in the Australian Football League.
Organised Australian rules football within the municipality of Box Hill can be traced back to the year 1903. In that year Mr EFG Hodges, the proprietor of the "Reporter" newspaper, founded the "Reporter District Football Association". The six foundation teams were Bayswater, Box Hill, Canterbury, Ferntree Gully, Mitcham and Ringwood. This Box Hill team played on a ground approximately 400 metres south of where Box Hill City Oval is located today, the site is now partly occupied by the Box Hill High School and the Box Hill Cemetery. This team is wholly unrelated to the Box Hill Hawks Football Club of today but was the first team to be known as Box Hill and was the first Australian rules football team in the municipality.
In 1921 a team known as the Box Hill Junior Football Club participated in local competition and in 1923 the Eastern Suburban Protestant Churches Football Association was formed with two teams representing Box Hill; Box Hill United and Box Hill City. The Box Hill City Football Club was the fore-runner of the present day club and was the first to wear the brown and gold uniform associated with later Box Hill teams. In 1932 the Eastern Suburban Football League formed with Box Hill City as a foundation member. In November 1936 this team amalgamated with Box Hill East to become the Box Hill Football Club and this event is now generally regarded as the formation of the present day Club.
In 1937 the team moved to the newly constructed Box Hill City Oval after the land south of Whitehorse Road was acquired by the Box Hill Cemetery Trust. The new oval was designed and constructed by the City Engineer, Mr FW Kerr, and provided first class facilities including grand stand with changing rooms and covered races, recorder board, conveniences, committee rooms, timekeeper's box and a kiosk. Chain mesh partitions were provided for the "inner" and "outer" spectator viewing areas. At the time the ground was regarded as the equal of any in Victoria.
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