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The Geelong Football Club, known as The Cats, is an Australian rules football club playing in the Australian Football League. They are based in the city of Geelong, a city of 190,000 people about 80 kilometres from Melbourne. They are the only current AFL team that is not based in a state capital city (though some may count the Fremantle Dockers and at one stage the Brisbane Bears were actually based on the Gold Coast). Originally based at Corio Oval, Geelong moved to Kardinia Park in the 1940's. For many years they were known as the Pivotonians, after the city's nickname 'The Pivot', Seagulls was also an earlier nickname.Throughout their history Geelong have had the title of being "The Handbaggers" supposedly refering to their supposed soft performance on the field. Although being a relatively strong performer throughout the 1980s and 1990s, the Cats have been unable to win a premiership since 1963.
VFL/AFL premierships won:
1925, 1931, 1937, 1951, 1952, 1963.
- Edward GreevesEdward Greeves was the winner of the inaugural Brownlow Medal in 1924, for the Best and fairest player in the Australian-rules football League. He played with the Geelong Football Club. Played 124 games Geelong 1923 31, 1933. Wore jumper number 20. He was, 1924Centuries: 19th century 20th century 21st century Decades: 1870s 1880s 1890s 1900s 1910s 1920s 1930s 1940s 1950s 1960s 1970s Years: 1919 1920 1921 1922 1923 1924 1925 1926 1927 1928 1929 See also 1924 in aviation 1924 in film 1924 in literature 1924 in mu
- Bernie Smith , 1951
- Alistair Lord , 1962Events January January 1 Western Samoa becomes independent from New Zealand January 3 Pope John XXIII excommunicates Fidel Castro January 4 New York City introduces a train that operates without a crew on-board January 8 Leonardo da Vinci's Mona Lisa is e
- Paul Couch , 1989
Theme song: "We are Geelong" (sung to the tune of the Toreador Song from Carmen).
2 Other notable players
- Gary AblettGary Ablett, Sr. born October 1, 1961) is a retired Australian Rules Football player. He was arguably one of the legends of the game. However, his life after football has been less successful. Ablett grew up in the town of Drouin in Victoria's Gippsland r
- Bill Goggin
- Reg Hickey
- Ian Nankervis
- Doug Wade
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