“This Was Our Finest Hour!”

In the late afternoon of Saturday, July 20, 1974, those words, made immortal by England’s wartime Prime Minister, Winston Churchill, echoed across Warrnambool’s Reid Oval. Against the mighty Hampden League, and all the odds – and after...

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“This Was Our Finest Hour!”
North-Central District Caltex Country Football Championship Squad, 1974: North-Central 14.5 (89) d. Hampden League 10.10 (70) at Reid Oval, Warrnambool, 20/07/1974. Back row, left to right, Kevin Adams, Chris Brown, Barry Gniel, Russell Evans, Jim Jess. Second row: Merv. Young (President Mallee League and Chairman North-Central District), Bill Anderson and Norm. Michael (selectors), Keith Raynor, Ronald Green, John Forster, Murray Gilmour, Jeff. Connelly, Hugh Delahunty, Allan Dunstan (president North-Central League and North-Central District Councillor), Des Hindson, Eddie Gniel (trainer), Vince McNicol (chairman of selectors). Sitting: John White, Bob Latta, Maurie Wood (captain), Frank Tuck (coach), Leon Grose (vice-captain), John Vallance. Kneeling: Murray Broughton (trainer), Leo Casey (runner), Lindsay Wood and Allan Stewart (trainers), Kevin Sait, Allan Wills, Greg. Robertson, Des. Darcy (North-Central Football League Secretary). (Garrick Photos, Boort.)

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