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FEDERAL
Affiliated: FTARFL 1924-6; CANFL 1927
Formed: 1924
Colours: Black and red
Premierships: 1925-6 (2 total)
The Federals team that won the 1926 FTARFL premiership. Jerry Dillon is standing at the far right.
The Federal Football Club - popularly known as Federals - was a founder member in 1924 of the Federal Territory Australian Rules Football League. The club's players were all labourers and miners working on the construction of Canberra's first sewerage system. The man responsible for hiring these workers was FTARFL president Jerry Dillon, who by coincidence was also heavily involved with Federals. It was reputed that Dillon would only take on a sewerage worker if he had demonstrable football talent, and, whatever the truth of the matter, Federals was certainly a strong team, winning premierships in 1925 and 1926. The club's existence was to be short-lived, however: once work on the sewers had ended in 1927, Federals disbanded.
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