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OLD HOBARTIANS ASSOCIATIONCurrent Affiliation: Old Scholars Football Association (OSFA) since 1987 Home Ground: Geilston Bay Oval Formed: 26th March 1919 Colours: Red, green and blue Senior Post-War Premierships: Tasmanian Amateur Football League Southern Division (TAFLSD) - 1948, 1967, 1969, 1972 (4 total); TAFL State Championship (Conder Shield) - 1967, 1969, 1972 (3 total); TAFLSD Old Scholars - 1982 (1 total); Old Scholars Football Association - 1988, 2008 (2 total) Senior Post-War Competition Best and Fairest Player Awards: Walter Howard Medal - Peter Turner 1955; Tony Andrews 1965; Robert Newton 1967, 1969 & 1971; Peter Bullock 1979 & 1985; Ted West 1982 (5 Medallists/8 Medals); Peter Fitzgerald Medal - Ricky McCulloch 1990; Paul Sheen 1994; Jason Fitzgerald 1996; Sean Williams 1997; Tim Scott 2001 (5 total) Most Games: 325 by Peter Mansfield The history of the Old Hobartians Association Football Club (OHA) dates back to 1919 when it competed in the Tasmanian Junior Football Association. Details of the club's early years are sketchy, and it was not really until the club joined the Tasmanian Amateur Football League's Southern Division competition in 1947 that records began to be assiduously maintained. OHA broke through for their first TAFLSD flag in only their second season, beating St Virgil's in the grand final by 32 points. This entitled them to play off for the state title against the Northern Division premier, St Patrick's Old Collegians, but the Launceston-based team proved too strong. The strongest teams in OHA's history were probably those of the late 1960s and early '70s which on three occasions achieved the 'double' of Southern Division and state premierships. In 1981 the TAFLSD split into Districts and Old Scholars sections, with OHA competing in the latter. In 1982 they beat Hutchins in the Old Scholars grand final, but lost to Districts premier Lindisfarne in the Divisional grand final. In 1986 the two sections divorced entirely, with the Old Scholars section becoming known as the Old Scholars Football Association. OHA won their first OSFA premiership in 1988 when they trounced Friends in the grand final by 80 points, 18.16 (124) to 6.8 (44), and their second twenty years later with a 14.9 (93) to 9.19 (73) grand final defeat of Richmond. Where now? or |