A brief history

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A brief history
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Establishment

• 1895 Formation of Hannans Football Club
• 1897 First premiership (beat Boulder)
• 1900 Emergence of Kalgoorlie FC

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Club Colours

• 1895-1899 - Hannans wore red and white
• 1900-1903 Dark Blue
• 1904-1905 Red and Blue
• 1906-Present Black and White

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Club Names

• 1895 Hannans Football Club
• 1900 Kalgoorlie City Football Club
• 1921 Magpies
• 1924 Kangas

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Origin of Kangas

• 1920s Closely associated with Kalgoorlie First
  Rates Football Club (Juniors), known as the
  Wallabies (Junior Roos)
• Good Wallabies would graduate to KCFC, nickname
  Kangas emerged to distinguish between the two

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The Virgos

• 1st Generation - Herb Virgo
• 2nd Gen - Herb, Gordon, Alan
• 3rd Gen - Gordon Jnr, Rodney, Kevin, Trevor,
  Brett, Ralph
• 4th Gen - Darren, Dave, Matty

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Famous Roos

• Dave Ferguson 1925 Premiership player with
  Geelong
• Ted Pool WAs first 200-gamer in the VFL
  (Hawthorn)
• Frank Murphy 4 premierships with Collingwood
• Jack Regan Legendary Collingwood full-back
• Dave Cuzens 2 Richmond B Fs

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Jack Neil

• Tough Kangas enforcer
• 237 A-Grade games for Kangas
• Played in 1962 Premiership
• Coached Kangas to 1984 Premiership
• Club legend

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Morrison Park

• Looked at move in 1970sdue to overuse of Sir
  RichardMoore
• Kangas contributed more than 5000 hours of labour
  to grassing, reticulation, and fencing of
  Morrison over 2 years
• Acquired construction materials for construction
  of clubrooms before eventual project abandonment
• 2008 Revisiting option of Morrison move

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Golden Eras

• 1925-1937 Eight Grand Finals, Two
  Premierships, Four Ressies Premierships
• 1953-1962 Six Grand Finals, Three Premierships,
  First Hat-Trick in GFL (1953) won Colts, Ressies,
  and League in same year
• 1980-1992 Six Grand Finals, Four Premierships

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Notable Achievements

• 1900 Restricted Railways to just two behinds
  for an A-Grade game
• 1926 Ressies team were undefeated
• 1971 Kicked 179 points against Norseman (Club
  Record)
• 1980 Rob Lilburne kicked 13 goals against
  Norseman

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Jeff Buddha Usher

• Club Stalwart
• Clubs bar named after him
• Kangas now hold annual Buddha Day
• 1 Ticket holder in 1998
• Bar Manager for 15 years

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Team Of The Century

• Taken from Kangas Times and Tales of the
  Kalgoorlie City Football Club
• Backs Ray Steward, Jack Regan, Arthur Ballantyne
• Half-Backs Dave Ferguson, Dave Cuzens, Barry
  Clarke
• Centres Stan Heal, Gus Ferguson, Herb Virgo jnr
• Half-Forwards Dick Lawn, Frank Murphy, Doug
  Oliphant
• Forwards Ron Woodward, Cec Rowlands, Brian Marr
• Ruck Jerry Dolan, Glenn OLoughlin, Ted Pool
• Bench Billy Thomas, Jack Wells, Ernie Martiensen

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150 Gamers

• 183 Herb Virgo jnr
• 150 Ray Steward
• 153 Ken Blair
• 182 Brian Marr
• 237 Jack Neil
• 150 Gerry Watts
• 164 Lawrie Wilson
• 157 Greg Rogers
• 150 Scott Freeman

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Kangas Book

• Written in 1998 by John Terrell
• Published by Kalgoorlie City Football Club
• Complete history of club, from inception until
  1998
• Now available for free download on KangasFC.com
• Sequel currently in the works (Nag Vic Gleeson
  for it)