OLD LAUNCESTONIANS
Current Affiliation: Northern Tasmanian Football Association (NTFA) and precursors since 1931
Home Ground: Bethune Park
Formed: 1931
Colours: Blue, black and white
Emblem: Blues
Senior Premierships: Tasmanian Amateur Football League Northern Division (TAFLND) - 1951-2-3, 1958-9-60, 1962, 1964, 1970-1, 1982 (11 total); TAFL State Championship (Conder Shield) - 1952-3, 1960, 1964, 1982 (5 total); NTFA Division Two - 1997 (1 total)
Senior Competition Best and Fairest Player Awards: TAFL Best and Fairest - R.Thornton 1934; E.Brooks 1939; J.Hunter 1941 (3 total); Max Allen Cup - P.Shepherd 1954; B.Foster 1957 (2 total); W.C. Curran Medal - G.Cuff 1973; C.Foon 1982 (2 total); NTFA Division Two Best and Fairest - James Proverbs 1997 (1 total - records incomplete)
Most Games: 321 by David Howie
Highest Score: 64.53 (437) vs. Quandeine 0.0 (0) in 1964
Old Launcestonians was a founder member in 1931 of the Launceston-based Tasmanian Amateur Football League. The team finished runner-up in its debut season, as it would do a total of seven times in the ten years from 1931 to 1940, increasing to eight in all by the time it broke through for its first flag in 1951. The 1950s would go on to be a productive decade, with further local premierships following in 1952, 1953, 1958 and 1959, plus a pair of state titles. The Blues actually contested every grand final in the 1950s, a sequence they extended by reaching the first five play-offs of the subsequent decade, winning premierships in 1960, 1962 and 1964. In both 1960 and 1964 they claimed the Conder Shield as well.
The 1970s started off in highly promising fashion thanks to grand final defeats of St Patrick's Old Collegians in both 1970 and 1971. Thereafter, however, the Blues endured a bleak spell of unprecedented proportions that did not end until 1982 when they landed both the northern and state flags.
Old Launcestonians currently compete in Division Two of the Northern Tasmanian Football Association, a competition which commenced in 1997, and in which the Blues won the first ever premiership after a 21.4 (130) to 9.3 (57) grand final defeat of old sparring partners St Patrick's.
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