Dimboola Football Club

The Dimboola Football Club are an Australian rules football club which compete in the Wimmera Football League (WFL).^[1] They are based in the town of Dimboola, Victoria.

History

Dimboola joined the Wimmera District Football League in 1923. In 1932 during the height of the Great depression the small town clubs suffering from financial pressures tried to get the league to change the way the gate taking were distributed to the clubs. The larger town clubs, knowing that they would be disadvantaged, blocked the motion. Nhill and Dimboola both went into recess.

In 1933 Dimboola was back, it formed the Mid Wimmera FL with Minyip, Murtoa, Nhill and Rupanyip. It won the 1933 and 1935 premierships. While the WDFL approached the Ballarat Football League to merge hoping that greater interest and better football would cause larger gate takings, so in 1934 the Wimmera FL and the Ballarat FL merged to form the Ballarat Wimmera FL. After three years in which the Wimmera clubs faced with greater costs and constantly losing on the footy field, feelers were put out to the smaller clubs, now playing in the Mid Wimmera FL. A peace deal was settled in September 1936 and the Wimmera Football League was reformed in 1937 making it a nine team competition.

VFL/AFL players

• Bert Rankin - ex-captain of the Geelong Football Club^[2]
• Larry Watson - Essendon, Fitzroy
• Tim Watson - Essendon

Publication

Wheatbelt Warriors. A Tribute To Wimmera Football League.

References