Box Hill Hawks
Australian rules football club
The Box Hill Hawks Football Club is an Australian rules football club based in the Melbourne suburb of Box Hill, competing in the Victorian Football League (VFL) and the VFL Women's (VFLW).
Since 2000, Box Hill has had a reserves affiliation with Australian Football League (AFL) club Hawthorn.
History
Early Australian rules football in Box Hill (1903–1935)
Organised Australian rules football within the municipality of Box Hill can be traced back to 1903 and the founding of the Reporter District Football Association (RDFA). The six inaugural clubs were Bayswater, Box Hill, Canterbury, Ferntree Gully, Mitcham and Ringwood. This Box Hill team played on a ground approximately 400 metres south of where Box Hill City Oval is located today, the site is now partly occupied by the Box Hill High School and the Box Hill Cemetery. This team is wholly unrelated to the Box Hill Hawks Football Club of today but was the first team to be known as Box Hill and was the first Australian rules football team in the municipality.
In 1921, a team known as the Box Hill Junior Football Club participated in local competitions and in 1923 the Eastern Suburban Protestant Churches Football Association was formed with two teams representing Box Hill; Box Hill United and Box Hill City. The Box Hill City Football Club was the fore-runner of the present day club and was the first to wear the brown and gold uniform associated with later Box Hill teams. In 1932 the Eastern Suburban Football League formed with Box Hill City as a foundation member. In 1935 Box Hill City merged with Box Hill East.
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