Waubra Football Club
Known as: The Kangaroos
Established: Circa 1919
Club Colours: Blue and white
Home Ground: Waubra Recreation Reserve
Ground Dimensions: 155m x 118m
Competitions participated in: 1919-1934 Learmonth District Football League
1935-1939 Burrumbeet & District Football Association
1940 Clunes Football Association
1945 Ballarat Football League
1946-1974 Lexton Football League
1975-1978 Clunes Football League
1979 Central Highlands Football League
Club Championships:
Brief history of club:
Waubra's emphatic triumph over Hepburn in the 2006 Central Highlands Football League grand final was the culmination of several seasons of steady improvement. In 2003 the 'Roos managed just six wins from 18 matches to finish eighth (of 13). They improved marginally in 2004 (seven wins), and in 2005 got as far as the first semi final before losing to Clunes. In 2006, however, with the exception of a round 11 reversal at Learmonth, they emerged victorious from every match, more often than not by a hefty margin. Two cases in point were the second semi final, where they outclassed Daylesford by 49 points, and the grand final where they handed out an 85 point hiding to Hepburn.
If it had been a long time - 24 years - between drinks for Waubra, that is not the same as suggesting that the club was unused to premiership celebrations.
Back in the 1920s the 'Roos went top on three occasions, while the ensuing decade brought four grand final appearances for two more flags.
After the war, during the course of 30 season stint in the Lexton Football League, Waubra proved repeatedly proved itself one of the competition's leading forces, particularly during the first decade and a half of its involvement.
Between 1946 and 1961 the seniors contested 13 out of a possible 16 grand finals, winning eight of them.
In 1975, Waubra transferred from the LFL to the Clunes Football League. Four years later, the CFL merged with the Ballarat and Bacchus Marsh Football League to form the Central Highlands Football League, which is where the 'Roos have competed ever since.
Their first senior flag in the new competition arrived in 1982 when they just held off a fast-finishing Dunnstown to win a gruelling grand final by three points, 16-14-110 to 15-17-107.
Aside from praise for the victor's gutsy performance, the match attracted headlines of the wrong sort following a behind the play incident in which Waubra's Stephen Head was felled, and ended up in hospital with his jaw, which had been broken in four places, wired up, and 20 stitches in his mouth.
Premierships –
Learmonth District Football Association (LDFA) – 1922, 1923, 1925;
Burrumbeet and District Football Association (BDFA) – 1938, 1939;
Lexton Football League (LFL) - 1946-1947-1948, 1950, 1955, 1956, 1957, 1960;
CHFL - 1982, 2006
Senior: 1922 – 1923 – 1925 – 1938 – 1939 – 1946 – 1947 – 1948 – 1950 – 1955 – 1956 - 1957 –
1960 – 1982 - 2006 –
1922 Grand Final: Waubra d.
1923 Grand Final: Waubra d.
1925 Grand Final: Waubra d.
1938 Grand Final: Waubra d.
1946 Grand Final: Waubra d. Moonambel
1947 Grand Final: Waubra 19.13.127 d.Navarre 15.18.108
1948 Grand Final: Waubra 18.12.120 d. Beaufort 10.14.74
1950 Grand Final: Waubra 15.12.102 d. Lexton 12.8.80
1955 Grand Final: Waubra 12.15.87 d. Navarre 9.13.67
1956 Grand Final: Waubra 9.15.69 d. Navarre 8.11.59
1957 Grand Final: Waubra 15.13.103 d. Moonambel 4.7.31
1960 Grand Final: Waubra 15.12.102 d. Lexton 9.9.63
1982 Grand Final: Waubra 16-14-110 d. Dunnstown 15-17-107
Best (Waubra):
Goals (Waubra):
2006 Grand Final: Waubra 23-13-151 d. Hepburn 8-16-64
Best (Waubra):
Goals (Waubra):
Reserves:
Under 18:
Under 17:
Under 16:
Under 15:
Under 14:
Maffescioni Award in Lexton Football League:
1966: Pat Bourke
1969: Blue Kennedy
Lexton Football League Best & Fairest:
Seniors: Nil
Reserves: 1960: K Morvell
Under 15: 1968: R Cordon, 1972: Joe Cullinan