ROYAL MILITARY COLLEGE

Affiliated: CANFL 1942-4, 1946-7, 1950-64 & 1973-4; ACTAFL 1975-6

Colours:  Dark blue and red

Emblem:  Cordies

Premierships: 1943 & 1951

Mulrooney Medallists:  John Moody 1957 & 1958 (1 Medallist/2 Medals)

With the arrival of numerous southern states cadets during the early war years, RMC was able to form a strong football team which was accepted into the Canberra Australian National Football League in 1942.  After finishing third in its debut season, the club enjoyed spectacular success in 1943, winning all matches played culminating in a 16.10 (106) to 10.14 (74) grand final defeat of RAAF.  RMC was coached in 1943 by Roy Leaper, who had played 16 VFL games with St Kilda from 1936 to 1938.  The club had so many talented players available to it in 1943 and 1944 that it entered two sides in the competition.

Once the war was over, RMC began to struggle, and after slumping to the wooden spoon in 1947 it withdrew from the competition for a couple of years.  On its resumption in 1950 it again emerged as a power, thanks to the arrival once more of numerous cadets from the southern states with football backgrounds.  In 1951 RMC won its second flag with a 14.14 (98) to 12.11 (83) grand final defeat of Manuka, but thereafter it tended to struggle, and only twice in its remaining seventeen seasons in the competition did it make it as far as the finals.

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