Collegians Football Club ("The Lions") is the oldest club in the VAFA, formed in 1891. Their home ground is the Harry Trott Oval in the Melbourne suburb of Albert Park.
In 1891, L.A.Adamson established an Wesley College Old Boys’ XVIII which formally became Collegians Football Club in 1892. Adamson, who was for thirty years the Headmaster of Wesley College, was the President of the club for its first forty years. In 1892, Adamson established the Metropolitan Junior Football Association (of which he was President for thirty-seven years), which in 1932 became the Victorian Amateur Football Association. Their 17 "A" grade premierships is more than any other club.
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