NORTH FREMANTLE
Current Affiliation: Western Australian Amateur Football League (WAAFL) since 1939
Home Ground: Gil Fraser Reserve
Formed: 1921
Colours: Black and white
Emblem: Magpies
Senior Premierships: Fremantle Suburban Football Association (FSFA) - 1927-8-9, 1931, 1936, 1938 (6 total); WAAFL A Grade - 1941, 1946-7, 1949, 1954-5, 1960, 2003 (8 total); WAAFL B Grade - 1939, 1984, 1986, 1990, 1993 (5 total)
Senior Competition Fairest and Best Player Awards: C.J. Jamieson Medal - W.James 1959; B.Lambert 1963 & 1966; S.Freeman 2001 (3 Medallists/4 Medals); WAAFL B Grade Best and Fairest - P.Grosser 1976; D.Herrington 1984 (2 total)
Today's North Fremantle Football Club was established in 1921 and spent the first eighteen years of its existence as a member of the Fremantle Suburban Football Association. Like its namesake, which had participated in the Western Australian Football League between 1901 and 1915, it adopted black and white as its colours, and although the design of the jumper has varied over the years it has retained these colours to the present day. Not surprisingly, it also boasts the nickname of the Magpies.
North Fremantle enjoyed considerable success in the FSFA, contesting the finals every year bar one, and winning half a dozen premierships. In 1931 the side went through the entire season unbeaten to earn the title of champions.
The 1939 season saw the Magpies pursuing a fresh set of challenges by transferring to the somewhat stronger, and higher profile Western Australian Amateur Football Association, precursor of the modern Western Australian Amateur Football League. Placed in B Grade, they promptly made the rest of the competition sit up and take notice by claiming a premiership at the first time of asking without losing a match. They did not waste much time making their presence felt in A Grade either, winning the flag in only their second season, which, owing to the war, also proved to be the WAAFA's last for five years.
The Magpies resumed where they had left off in 1946, winning what was effectively their second successive premiership. They then made it three straight in 1947, and four flags out of five in 1949. The club was well on the way to establishing itself as one of the competition's stalwarts, a status it undeniably, and proudly, holds today.
In 2007 the Magpies will be competing in A Grade, where they last went top four seasons earlier.
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