Caulfield Grammarians Football Club
| Caulfield Grammarians Football Club | |
|---|---|
| Names | |
| Nickname(s) | The Fields |
| Club details | |
| Founded | 1920 |
| Colours | Navy Blue White |
| President | Peter Small |
| Captain(s) | Tom Small & Tim Nixon |
| Ground(s) | Glenhuntly Oval, Caulfield East |
| Other information | |
| Official website | http://www.cgfc.com.au |
Caulfield Grammarians Football Club, also known, from time to time, as Old Caulfield Grammarians, is the (equal) second oldest consecutively competing team in the Victorian Amateur Football Association (or VAFA).
The team entered the competition in 1920, and has competed continuously since that time (competition was suspended from 1940 to 1945 during World War II).
Their home ground is the Glenhuntly Oval, at the corner of Neerim Road and Booran Road, Caulfield East.
From time to time various teams of “Old Boys” were selected to play against the school's team. The first of these matches took place on 15 August 1889, and matches such as these took place on a regular basis from 1907 to 1914 (when the matches ceased due to World War I).
The Caulfield Grammarians Football Club was founded in early 1920. Caulfield Grammar School's headmaster, Walter Murray Buntine, was elected as its inaugural president. Buntine gave the team access to all of the schools sporting facilities for its training, and he allowed the team to use the school's oval as its home ground.
On Monday, 22 March 1920, a meeting of the (then) Metropolitan Amateur Football Association decided to resume the inter-club competition that it had suspended for the duration of World War I at the end of the 1915 season. The MAFA announced that the re-formed competition would be between four of the "pre-war" clubs, Collegians Football Club, South Yarra Amateur Football Club, Elsternwick Football Club, and Melbourne University Football Club (later University Blacks), and four "new clubs": Old Melburnians, Old Caulfield Grammarians, Melbourne Swimming Club Football Club and the Teachers’ College Football Club.
In their first competition match, on Saturday 15 May 1920, Old Caulfield Grammarians were narrowly beaten 7.11 (53) to 6.16 (50) by Collegians.
Their second competition match was against Teachers’ College on Saturday, 22 May 1920, at the Caulfield Grammar School Oval. Old Caulfield Grammarians won convincingly, 12.17 (89) to 3.7 (25).
A 1921 press report of the team's Metropolitan Amateur Football Association match against Hampton refers to the team as Old Caulfield Collegians; it is unclear whether this was an inadvertent typographical error — such as the South Australian newspaper references to Hans Ebeling (C.G.S. 1919-1922), as "the old Caulfield Collegian" — or a case of the reporter confusing the Old Caulfield Grammarians Football Club with an earlier team known as "Caulfield Collegians" that seems to have, from time to time, contained a large percentage of Caulfield Grammar "Old Boys".
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