Students, Blues and Griffins

AFL Canberra / ANU Griffins

When the ANUAFC was established in 1961, the team was referred to as “University” or the “Students”. Over time this became the “Blues”, until in 1976, the Committee decided a membership badge should be struck for the ANUAFC.

Eric Martin, an architect and regular ANUAFC first’s player, suggested a Griffin would be a suitable emblem for the Club given tradition considered the Griffin to be king of the beasts and the location of the ANU campus on the shore of Lake Burley Griffin.

The Committee at the time was largely comprised of economics, law and political science students and graduates so they readily deferred to Eric’s superior knowledge of matters artistic, heraldic and mythical, and endorsed his proposal. Badges were struck and from that day the “Blues” became the “Griffins”.

POS	TEAM	% Won
1	Molonglo Juggernauts	85.71
2	Molonglo Juggernauts	85.71
3	ANU Griffins	76.92
4	ANU Griffins	78.57
5	Ainslie Tricolours	71.43
6	Ainslie Tricolours	71.43
7	Woden Blues	71.43
8	Woden Blues	71.43
9	UC Magpies	14.29
10	ADFA/RMC Rams	64.29
11	ADFA/RMC Rams	64.29
12	Batemans Bay Seahawks	50.00
13	Cootamundra Blues	28.57
14	Batemans Bay Seahawks	53.85
15	Googong Hogs	14.29
16	Cootamundra Blues	28.57
17	Googong Hogs	14.29
18	Goulburn Swans	13.33
19	Goulburn Swans	13.33
20	UC Magpies	14.29

POS	TEAM	% Won
1	Yass Roos	93.33
2	Ainslie Tricolours	87.50
3	ANU Griffins	86.67
4	ADFA/RMC Rams	60.00
5	Southern Cats	53.33
6	Woden Blues	46.67
7	UC Magpies	40.00
8	Tuggeranong Hawks	33.33
9	Batemans Bay Seahawks	31.25
10	Molonglo Juggernauts	13.33
11	Googong Hogs	6.25

POS	TEAM	% Won
1	Eastlake Demons	92.31
2	Belconnen Magpies	76.92
3	Queanbeyan Tigers	69.23
4	Gungahlin Jets	61.54
5	Riverina Lions	53.85
6	Tuggeranong Hawks	38.46
7	Molonglo Juggernauts	38.46
8	Ainslie Tricolours	30.77
9	ADFA/RMC Ewes	23.08
10	ANU Griffins	15.38

Students, Blues and Griffins

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