The Dederang/Mt Beauty Football Club held a golden anniversary reunion at the Dederang Recreation Reserve to celebrate 50 years of football and affiliation with the Tallangatta League. Celebrations also included the Bogong and Tawonga football clubs.The Alpine Times 8 page Special Feature Supplement titled the 'Dederang/Mt Beauty Football Club / Golden Jubilee Celebrations' published July 29, 1998. Includes articles and photos.dederang/mt beauty football club, kiewa valley football, bogong and tawonga football clubs, tallangatta football league

The Dederang-Mt. Beauty Football Club, nicknamed the Bombers, is an Australian rules football club playing in the Tallangatta & District Football League. The club is based in Dederang, Victoria and Mount Beauty, Victoria. It was formed in the early1900s and disbanded in 1976 when it merged with Mount Beauty to form Dederang-Mount Beauty football club. In 1948 the competition received a boost with an influx of new players who came to work on the Kiewa Hydro Scheme. George and Gordon Hobbs were the famous Hobbs brothers of Dederang which two Premierships were built around. Four brothers starred in Dederang’s First Flag in the Tallangatta League in 1958. Dederang Football Club was one of the earliest recorded football clubs in the Kiewa Valley area. Many players came from pioneering farming families in the area and there were often several boys from the same family playing in the team. Dederang won its first flag in the Tallangata League in1958 led by the Hobbs brothers Rex, Colin, Ken and Jack2 original black and white photographs of Dederang football club teams. Mounted on heavy card 1. Dederang Football Team – 1923 2. Dederang Football Team – 1919 Glued underneath photo, Typed names of team players 1. Dederang Football Team – 1923 Standing- Dick Hore, Jack Creamer, Jim Thompson, Alex Speers, Rex Hollands, Harry Goonan, Son Hobbs, Andy McQuilton, Alie Briggs, Charlie Grealy, Walter Keat. Front- Tom Baker, Tom Arter, Chris Quonoey, Hyram Ivers,Norman Coad, Bill Arundel, Clarrie Jeffs, David Briggs. Umpire unknown. Lent by Mrs D Coad Yackandandah 2. Dederang Football Team – 1919 Standing- Tom Hollands, Mick Tooey, Rex Hollands, Charlie Grealey,Jack Charles, HyramIvers, Mr Hewitt, Andy McQuilton, Alex Speers, Jack Creamer, Andrew Nettie. Front- Norman Coad, Bill Goonan, Rex Ellis, Davis, Umpire, V Donaghu, Bev Day, Barny Keegan, Mick Hynes. Lent by Mrs D Coad, Yackandandah dederang, football

Tawonga's first recorded game was against Yackandandah in 1893 at Tawonga. Tawonga folded up in 1957 enabling Bogong to have 2 teams, the firsts and seconds in 1958. Bogong merged with Dederang in 1976 and became the Dederang-Mt Beauty Football Club. Bogong joined the Yackandandah league in 1947. In 1954 Bogong entered the Ovens & King League. In 1960 Bogong United was in the Tallangatta League with Tallangatta, Kiewa, Kergunyah, Dederang, Lavington, Bandiana, Bullioh, Mitta United, Barnawartha, Sandy Creek and Yackandandah. The Kiewa league was formed in 1923. In the 1930's Tawonga was in the Chiltern League then the Dederang League, then the Yackandandah League and then the Tallangatta League.The papers are a primary source of the history of the Bogong, Tawonga, Dederang and Mt Beauty Football Clubs. They include family names of players and families living in the Kiewa Valley at the time and increase an understanding of the social changes country areas have undergone during the period covered.Paper records for local (Upper Kiewa Valley) football clubs' history including minute books, notes, journals, newspaper cuttings, footy records and booklet produced for the Dederang-Mt Beauty Golden Jubilee in 1998.football clubs; upper kiewa valley; sport

Kergunyah is a small town in the Kiewa Valley in north east Victoria. It is 10km south of Kiewa (town) and 23 km north of Dederang (town). it is farming country commencing in 1838, developing into a small community in 1974 with a School, Church, Post Office, Football Club, Young Farmer Club C.W.A. Netball Club, Card Club and Fire Brigade.Kergunyah is in the Kiewa Valley. Its history is important in the valley as it developed from a large pastoral run in 1838 into a small community supporting the local farming industry with essential organisations eg. school, fire brigade and social organisations eg. sporting teams, C.W.A.. Its history is significant as this leaflet has details of the organisations up to 1974 and this detail can be compared to organisations at Kergunyah today and can be compared to the history of other small rural communities. White stiff paper, folded to A4 size, with black and white photos on each of the 4 pages. Each page has detailed information under headings of community buildings and clubs in the small town. kergunyah; kiewa valley; small community; rural town;

Ian McKendrick was secretary of the Mt Beauty Football Club on 8th Aug. 1974. He compiled important papers re the club's history and stored them in an envelope for future reference and preservation with the idea of each secretary passing the envelope on to the next secretary.Mt Beauty football club was formed at a meeting on 19th Sept. 1974 attended by Bogong Tawonga Football club when the club changed its name. The Mt Beauty football club has since amalgamated with the Dederang football club. List of footballers in 1975 is helpful for researching local families living in the Kiewa Valley. An envelope titled 'Notice to Secretary' and 'List of Documents'. Enclosed 15 pages comprising of 1. Newspaper cuttings, 2.Typed pages with the title - 'Recreation Reserve pavilion - Mt Beauty', 3. Typed page title 'Mt Beauty Recreation Reserve Drainage', 4. Plan of Mt Beauty Recreation Reserve pavilion sketch 1975, 5. Handwrittten page title re P. O'Brien Years of Association 1950 - 1974 and names of teams on the back.. There is more than one copy of some pages. 1970smt beauty football club, ian mckendrick, bogong tawonga football club

Dederang won the football premiership in 1912. Many country towns had a local football team that played against others in the district. Towns in the Kiewa Valley were big enough to field a football team. Sport was a popular way of relaxing and socialising on the weekends.Sepia photo of 'Dederang Football Premiers 1912 with : - list of players named left to right in 3 rows. 'Lent by Mrs D. Coad, Yackandandah' - all of which is on attached paper below the photo. The photo is glued to thick grey cardboard and thus framed. Made 1912 - Thelma Studio Beechworth embossed in gold on photo This photo is published on Page 56 of 'A History of the Kiewa Valley' by Esther Temple and David Lloyd dederang football club