Mitta United Football Club

Australian rules football club

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The Mitta United Football Netball Club, nicknamed the Mountain Men or the Blues, is an Australian rules football and netball club playing in the Tallangatta & District Football League. The club is based in Mitta Mitta, Victoria and Eskdale, Victoria.

History

The club is a merger of Mitta Town and Eskdale football teams, which initially occurred in 1940, then again in 1945, after World War Two

The club then was de-merged in 1947, into Mitta Town and Mitta Valley Football Club's.^[1]

The club's then remerged in 1952 as a merger of Mitta Town and Eskdale (formerly Mitta Valley).^[2]

A Gard won the club's inaugural best and award in 1952.^[3]

Mitta Mitta Football Club - Timeline

1883–1898: – local games^[4]
1899: Benambra Football Association
1900 - 1901: Nobel's Hamburg Trophy^[5]^[6]
1902 - 1906: Local games ?
1907: Mitta Mitta Football League
1908: Tallangatta & District Football League
1909–1923: Club in Recess
1924–1926: Mitta Mitta Football League
1927–1931: Club in Recess
1932: Yackandandah & District Football League
1933: Tallangatta & District Football Association
1934–1935: Club in Recess
1936: Chiltern & District Football Association
1937 & 1938: Club in Recess. Mitta applied to join the Dederang & District Football League in 1937, but were refused and went into recess in 1937 & 1938^[7]
1939: Mitta Mitta Junior FC active playing matches against other local teams.^[8]
1940: Kiewa & Mitta Football League as Mitta Valley
1944: Mitta Valley Patriotic Football Association^[9]

Premierships

Benambra Football Association
- 1899: 1st - Mitta FC^[10]
Nobel's Hamburg Football Trophy
- 1900 - Mitta Mitta d Eskdale^[11]
Kiewa & District Football Association
- 1928 - Mitta Valley: 12.8 - 80 d Granya: 4.11 - 35^[12]
Yackandandah & District Football League
- 1932: Mitta Mitta: 12.9 - 81 defeated Tallangatta: 8.4 - 52^[13]

Eskdale Football Club - Timeline

1907: Mitta Mitta Football League
1908: Tallangatta & District Football League
1913: Mitta Valley Football Association
1935–1939: Dederang District Football Association
1940: Kiewa & Mitta Football League as Mitta Valley
1944: Mitta Valley Patriotic Football Association^[14]
1945–1946: Tallangatta & District Football League as Eskdale-Mitta
1947–1950: Tallangatta & District Football League as Mitta Valley
1951: Tallangatta & District Football League as Eskdale

Premierships

Dederang & District Football Association
- 1935 - Eskdale: defeated Tawonga: by 4 goals^[15]
- 1938 - Eskdale: 16.14 - 110 d Kiewa: 5.6 - 36^[16]
Kiewa & Mitta Football League (1940)
- 1940 - Mitta Valley: 12.8 - 80 d Tallangatta: 9.12 - 66^[17]^[18]

Football Premierships

The Mitta United FC has won five senior football T&DFL grand finals by one point and was the first club in T&DFL to win four consecutive Grand Finals in - 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007.

Seniors

Tallangatta & District Football League (22)
- 1952, 1953, 1959, 1960, 1961, 1963, 1967, 1968, 1973, 1975, 1978, 1982, 1986, 1988, 1992, 1993, 1996, 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2012.

League Best & Fairest Awards

Kiewa & Mitta Valley Football Association
- 1940 - W Hodgkin: Mitta Mitta & Norm Webb: Granya - 12 votes each^[19]^[20]

Tallangatta & District Football League

Seniors - Barton Medal
- 1947 - Colin Scales (Mitta Town)^[21]^[22]
- 1948 - W L "Raff" Webb^[23]^[24]^[25]
- 1966 - D Dower
- 1976 - G Fox
- 1984 - P Tobin
- 1985 - John Smith
- 1988, 1989, 1991 - Hughie Giltrip
- 2003 - Justin Nelson
- 2007 - Chris Nelson
- 2012 - Nathan Reynoldson

Reserves

VFL / AFL Players

The following footballers played with Mitta prior to playing senior VFL / AFL football.

1921 - Joe Scales - Fitzroy
1923 - Jack Scales - Fitzroy
1948 - Gordon Yea - North Melbourne
2018 - Ben Paton - St Kilda

The following footballers played VFL / AFL prior to playing with Mitta.

1975 - Frank Hodgkin - St Kilda

References

^ "1947 - Registered Players". Upper Murray and Mitta Herald (Vic). 8 July 1947. p. 3. Retrieved 25 August 2024.
^ "Mitta United FC profile". australianfootball.com. Retrieved 17 August 2024.
^ "1952 - MITTA TOWN FOOTBALL CLUB'S BEST & FAIREST". Upper Murray and Mitta Herald (Vic). 17 April 1952. p. 4. Retrieved 25 August 2024.
^ "1886 - MEMORIES OF THE PAST". Upper Murray and Mitta Herald (Vic). 26 April 1886. p. 3. Retrieved 20 August 2024.
^ "1900 - NOBEL'S HAMBURG FOOTBALL COMPETITION". Upper Murray & Mitta Herald (Vic). 5 July 1900. p. 4. Retrieved 2 September 2024.
^ "1901 - Granya: Noble's Hamburg Football Trophy". The Albury Banner & Wodonga Express (NSW). 13 September 1901. p. 16. Retrieved 1 September 2024.
^ "1937 - Mitta refused entry". Trove Newspapers. The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express (NSW). 28 May 1937. p. 37. Retrieved 11 October 2020.
^ "1939 - Junior Football Match Tallangatta v. Mitta Mitta". Upper Murray and Mitta Herald (Vic). 15 June 1939. p. 2. Retrieved 20 August 2024.
^ "1944 - Football". Upper Murray and Mitta Herald (Vic). 27 April 1944. p. 3. Retrieved 29 August 2024.
^ "1899 - Benambra Football Association". The Albury Banner & Wodonga Express (NSW). 15 September 1899. p. 23. Retrieved 22 August 2024.
^ "1900 - Obituary". The Yackandandah Times (Vic). 14 September 1900. p. 2. Retrieved 2 September 2024.
^ "1928 - Mitta Valley v Granya". Upper Murray and Mitta Herald (Vic). 23 August 1928. p. 2. Retrieved 23 August 2024.
^ "1932 - Football Final". Upper Murray and Mitta Herald (Vic. : 1885 - 1955). 15 September 1932. p. 2. Retrieved 13 August 2024.
^ "1944 - Football". Upper Murray and Mitta Herald (Vic). 27 April 1944. p. 3. Retrieved 29 August 2024.
^ "1935 - Gundowring". The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express (NSW). 16 August 1935. p. 37. Retrieved 19 August 2024.
^ "1938 - Dederang Association: Eskdale Wins Premiership". Upper Murray and Mitta Herald (Vic). 11 August 1938. p. 2. Retrieved 20 August 2024.
^ "1940 - Premiership to Mitta". Border Morning Mail (Albury, NSW). 6 August 1940. p. 5. Retrieved 8 September 2024.
^ "1940 - Football". Border Morning Mail (Albury, NSW). 30 July 1940. p. 5. Retrieved 20 August 2024.
^ "1940 - Football". Upper Murray & Mitta Herald (Vic). 11 July 1940. p. 2. Retrieved 30 August 2024.
^ "1940 - Mitta Valley FA - Best & Fairest Award". Border Morning Mail. 21 September 1940 – via Trove Newspapers.
^ "1947 - Mitta Mitta People". Weekly Times (Melbourne, Vic. : 1869 - 1954). 3 September 1947. p. 15. Retrieved 29 August 2024.
^ "1947 - MITTA MITTA MUBMURINGS". Upper Murray and Mitta Herald (Vic). 9 October 1947. p. 2. Retrieved 30 August 2024.
^ "1948 - Football Notes". Upper Murray & Mitta Herald (Vic). 9 September 1948. p. 3. Retrieved 29 August 2024.
^ "1948 - BANQUET AT FERNVALE". Upper Murray and Mitta Herald (Vic). 23 September 1948. p. 2. Retrieved 29 August 2024.
^ "1948 - MITTA TOWN FOOTBALL CLUB'S BANQUET". Upper Murray & Mitta Herald (Vic). 28 October 1948. p. 3. Retrieved 29 August 2024.