Episode 1878
Champion of the Colony
Sat, 2022-Jun-25 00:32 UTC
Length - 1:50
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Welcome to random Wiki of the Day where we read the summary of a random Wikipedia page every day.
The random article for Saturday, 25 June 2022 is Champion of the Colony.
The Champion of the Colony Award is a list that was compiled in the 1940s and 1950s by Australian rules football historian Cecil Clarence Mullen (1895–1983) for Mullen's Australasian Footballers' Almanac in 1950, for Mullen's Footballers' Australian Almanac in 1951, and for the History of Australian Rules Football in 1958. According to Mullen's 1950 almanac, the Champion of the Colony was an annual award was originally based on votes by club captains and later by Melbourne's leading football journalists, which was the accepted historical interpretation of the title for many decades.
More recent research has failed to uncover any contemporary evidence of any such an award having ever existed; and it is now generally accepted that the list was compiled entirely by Mullen, based on newspaper reports that he had collected over many years.
This recording reflects the Wikipedia text as of 00:32 UTC on Saturday, 25 June 2022.
For the full current version of the article, see Champion of the Colony on Wikipedia.
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