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St Kilda–Fremantle AFL controversies

Contests between the two clubs since Fremantle's admission in 1995 have a particularly high frequency of controversial and unusual events.


1918 VFL season

In Round 14, Len Phillips of Essendon played the last of his 13 senior VFL matches, having played his first VFL match for St Kilda in 1914.

78 Saab

The remainder of the album was recorded with Greg Wales at Hothouse Studios in St Kilda, Victoria.

Alan Stretton

In 1946 and 1947 he played 16 games of Australian rules football in the Victorian Football League with St Kilda, after arriving at the club from Duntroon.

Alma Park, St Kilda East

In 1859, the construction of the then Brighton railway line from St Kilda severed the park into two.

Archibald Norman McLeod

Born at Kilfinichen, he was the fifth son of Rev. Neil McLeod (1729-1780) M.A., a native of St Kilda, and Margaret MacLean (1737-1789), daughter of Rev. Archibald MacLean (b.1683) M.A., of the MacLeans of Boreray, North Uist.

Bobby Royle

He played his first senior match for the Melbourne Football Club, aged 19, against St Kilda, at the Junction Oval on 14 May 1898 (round one).

Brian Gleeson

Gleeson attended St Patrick's College, Ballarat and later played with St Kilda at Centre half-forward initially.

Cain Ackland

He played 22 games during the 2005 AFL season and earned the Rex Hunt nickname "The Street" in his commentary, in reference to the St Kilda nightspot Acland Street, Melbourne.

Chapel Street, Melbourne

Chapel Street is essentially straight and runs for over 4.13 kilometres along an approximate north-south alignment from the Yarra River in the north to Brighton Road in the south, traversing the south east suburbs of South Yarra, Prahran, Windsor, St Kilda and St Kilda East.

Daniel Menzel

As a result of a four-goal performance against St Kilda in round 13 of the 2011 AFL season, Menzel received that round's nomination for the 2011 AFL Rising Star award.

Darren Kowal

Kowal earned a 1993 AFL Rising Star nomination for his 21 disposals and two goals against St Kilda.

Darren Millane

Millane was considered by Sydney and St Kilda, but Hawthorn won the chance, with Millane training at Glenferrie with the Hawks, but did not like the atmosphere and went back to captain Dandenong in the Victorian Football Association U/18s.

Duke Trophy

They started skating at St Moritz Ice Palais in St Kilda in June 1946 and both eventually represented Victoria in interstate competition.

Frederick Race Godfrey

A member of the Council of the Diocese and also Chairman of Committees (Church Assembly and Synod) for many years a lay clerk (Honorary Reader) and Vice President of the Cathedral Choir Association, and Vicars Churchwarden at All Saints, St Kilda.

George Enticknap

Enticknap was born in St Kilda, Victoria and was educated to elementary level at state schools in rural Victoria.

Herbert Vincent Mills

For positive solutions, Mills looked to the independent-minded islanders of St Kilda, and the vagrancy colonies of the Netherlands, concluding that what was required was an “English experiment” in co-operative land settlement.

Jack Lowry

Jack Brown Lowry (born 25 November 1916 in Lambton) is a former Australian rules footballer who played with St Kilda in the Victorian Football League (VFL).

James Bevan

Born in St Kilda, Victoria, Australia, Bevan moved to England after his parents, James and Elizabeth (nee Fly), died when the SS London sank in a gale in the Bay of Biscay on 11 January 1866.

James Francis Corbett

Corbett was formerly stationed at St Kilda, Victoria, and was appointed first bishop of Sale in May 1887.

John Lang Currie

Currie lived either on his estates or in Geelong until the 1870s, but in 1871 he moved to Melbourne and built Eildon Mansion in Grey St, St Kilda, where he lived until his death in 1898.

John Morton Boyd

He visited St Kilda and recognised the potential for research into its endemic fauna, including the Soay Sheep, the St Kilda Wren and the St Kilda Fieldmouse.

Little Curlew

It winters inland on grassland, cultivation or near fresh water, mainly in northern Australia but also as far south as St Kilda, South Australia.

Live at the Continental and the Esplanade

It had been recorded from two performances at the (now defunct) Continental Hotel in Prahran and one performance at the Esplanade Hotel in St Kilda, both in Melbourne.

Martin McKinnon

He twice received the maximum three Brownlow votes while with Adelaide, for 23 disposals in a win over reigning premiers Essendon in 1994 and for 25 disposals against St Kilda for which he received an AFL Rising Star nomination in 1995.

Participatory design

The Talbot Reserve in St Kilda faced numerous problems of use, such as becoming a regular spot for sex workers and drug users to congregate.

Percy FitzGerald

Percy Desmond FitzGerald was born 18 April 1873 in St Kilda, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia.

Scottish Gaelic phonology

The survey collected data from informants as far south as Arran, Cowal, Brig o' Turk, east to Blairgowrie, Braemar and Grantown-on-Spey, north-east to Dunbeath and Portskerra and all areas west of these areas, including St Kilda.

Sean Godsell

In 1980 and 1981, Godsell played for St Kilda in the Victorian Football League.

Sir Thomas Dyke Acland, 10th Baronet

As a result of that visit, the suburb of St Kilda was named after the ship, and Acland St, one of St Kilda's main commercial centres, was named after Acland.

St Kilda, Britain's Loneliest Isle

St Kilda, Britain's Loneliest Isle is a short, silent film about St Kilda (an archipelago to the west of Scotland) and the final period of its habitation.

St Kilda, New Zealand

This electorate existed from 1946 to 1993 (after which it was replaced by the new Dunedin South electorate), and was represented in turn by Fred Jones (Labour, 1946-1951), Sir James Barnes (National, 1951-1957), Bill Fraser, (Labour, 1957-1981), and Michael Cullen (Labour, 1981-1993).

W. J. Lincoln

W. J. Lincoln was born in Melbourne and was bought up in St Kilda.

In 1908 he was manager of the Paradise of Living Pictures movie theatre in St Kilda, Melbourne, Victoria, and had begun to write and direct films for show in the theatre.

William Cleireach MacLeod

The head of this family lived on St Kilda and a notable member of this family was the poetess Mairi Nighean Alasdair Ruaidh.


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