CAREY PARK (Pastimes)
Current Affiliation: South West Football League since the league's inception in 1957
Formed: 1914
Club Address: P.O. Box 9, Bunbury 6231, Western Australia
Colours: Navy blue and red
Emblem: Panthers
Senior Premierships: 1920, 1923-4-5, 1932, 1938, 1946-7, 1963, 1973, 1986, 2003, 2006 (13 total)
Most Games: 370 by Shaun O'Callaghan
Hayward Medallists: Reg Hayes 1946; Charlie Halkyard 1948; Ray Teede 1949-50-1; John Ellis 1953; John Cormack 1980; Mark Skehan 1988; Sean Widdeson 1995; James McRae 2003; Rhys Croxford 2004; Travis Edmonds 2006 (10 Medallists/12 Medals)
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The club known today as Carey Park has been at the forefront of the game in Western Australia's Bunbury region for close to a century. Formed in 1914 as a junior club, it acquired senior status after World War One and achieved its first premiership in 1920. At this stage in its history it was known as the Young Men's Pastimes Football Club, which from 1921 was abbreviated to just Pastimes.
The 1920s, '30s and '40s were all successful decades, with the club's 1923 premiership side being particularly noteworthy in going through the whole season unbeaten.
In 1956 the club changed its name to Carey Park after the Bunbury district of that name with which it was most closely associated. The following year saw the establishment of the South West National Football League, with Carey Park one of the founder members. In 1959, following the increasingly widespread adoption of American style nicknames by Australian football clubs, Carey Park became known as the Panthers.
The club's first senior flag in the new competition arrived in 1963, and it has enjoyed intermittent success since, including recent grand final triumphs over South Bunbury by 26 points in 2003 and Harvey-Brunswick-Leschenaltia by 4 points in 2006.
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