OAK PARK
Current Affiliation: Essendon District Football League (EDFL) since 1959 (under-age sides had competed since 1960)
Formed: 1957 as an under-fifteen team; the seniors were formed in 1959
Home Ground: J.P. Fawkner Reserve, Oak Park
Club Address: P.O. Box 311, Glenroy 3046, Victoria
Colours: Royal blue and white
Emblem: 'Roos
Senior EDFL Premierships: A Grade 2002-3 (22 total); B Grade 1983 (1 total)
League Best and Fairest Awards: A Grade (Reynolds Medal) - K.Boxhall 1966-7; E.Rybalko 1969; G.Whelan 1970; D.Milner 1995; L.MacNamara 2001; N.Chalmers 2003 (6 Medallists/7 Medals); B Grade (W.Hutchison Medal) - J.Cronin 1959; G.Whelan 1975 (2 total); A3 Grade (Vin Sharpe Medal) - M.Asprea 1985 (1 total)
In 2007 the Oak Park Football Club will be fifty years old, although its senior team did not take its bows until 1959, when it was admitted to the Essendon District Football League's B Grade competition. It quickly established itself as a power, and spent the majority of the ensuing decade in A Grade. The club has won well over twenty premierships at all levels, with the seniors emerging as a real A Grade force since the turn of the century, winning consecutive A Grade flags in 2002 and 2003. In 2006, under the coaching of former Brunswick, North Melbourne and West Torrens player Daryl Schimmelbusch, the 'Roos won 8 of their 18 home and away matches to finish in 5th place in A Grade. A year later they were slightly less consistent and dropped to 6th place on the ladder with a 6-12 record.
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