During the off-season the club hired Leigh Matthews, who in 1990 had delivered Collingwood its first premiership since 1958.

Nevertheless, they still managed to battle their way to a 6th successive grand final with wins over Footscray by 8 points in the first semi final and Collingwood by 2 points in the preliminary final.

In a remarkable season, Carlton languished with a record of 3 – 6 after nine weeks, but won ten of the remaining eleven home-and-away matches to finish fourth ; Carlton then comfortably beat in the first semi-final, overcame a 28-point deficit in the final quarter to beat Collingwood in the preliminary final, then beat South Melbourne in the notoriously brutal and violent Bloodbath Grand Final.

Collingwood played its first game in the Victorian Football Association ( VFA ) against on 7 May 1892.

Collingwood won its first premiership in 1902, defeating by 33 points.

The 2009 season saw Collingwood finish inside the top four for the first time since 2003, but in the qualifying final were beaten by minor premiers St Kilda convincingly.

In 2010, Collingwood finished as minor premiers, and after wins in the qualifying and preliminary finals, reached the first Grand Final against.

After a slow start to the 2012 season in which Collingwood lost two of their first three matches, the Magpies have since steadied and currently sit on 15 wins and 6 losses their largest win this season has been against the GWS giants by 120 points

After the 2012 match, Collingwood have won this contest 10 times and Essendon 7 times, with the first match being drawn.

The first signs of a Collingwood / Brisbane rivalry originated in 1999, when Brisbane comprehensively beat the

The team had its first finals win since 1913, against Richmond, but were eliminated in the 1939 finals series by Collingwood in the preliminary final.

The first home game at the new home ground was a 6 point win over Collingwood 8.

In 1968, he guided Carlton to its first premiership in 21 years, and in 1970, in front of the biggest ever VFL crowd, he led Carlton to arguably footy ’ s most famous comeback defeating Collingwood who were leading by 44 points at half-time.

After losing their first game against Hawthorn by 50 points and a narrow defeat to Collingwood, Melbourne strung together three consecutive wins against Adelaide, Richmond and Brisbane, making it the first time they have won three games in a row since 2006.

Finally, in 1919, the Tigers made their first Grand Final appearance, losing to Collingwood.

Richmond stoked a rivalry with the Magpies by recruiting their former skipper Dan Minogue as playing coach and the Tigers gained vengeance by beating Collingwood in the 1920 Grand Final to secure a first flag in the big league.

From 1927 to 1929 Richmond became the first club in the VFL to lose three consecutive Grand Finals, all of which were to neighbouring arch rivals, Collingwood.

Results on the field were slow in coming, with Collingwood finishing 16th, the last position (" wooden spoon "), in his first year in charge.

The first match resulted in a draw, prompting McGuire to say before the replay that " he had seen more drawn Collingwood Grand Finals ( 1977 and 2010 ) than he had seen premierships ".

Founded in 1972 as the first purpose-built, mixed-sex college in Durham, it is named after the mathematician Sir Edward Collingwood ( 1900-70 ), who was also for a time Chair of the Council of Durham University.

* James Collingwood Tinling ( 1900 – 1983 )-RAF Officer, who co-built the first jet engine

Other main contributors in the first half of the 20th century were Lars Ahlfors, André Bloch, Henri Cartan, Edward Collingwood, Otto Frostman, Frithiof Nevanlinna, Henrik Selberg, Tatsujiro Shimizu, Oswald Teichmüller,

This comical ceremony was inspired by the rumour that Geelong's premiership players of 1937 had buried a magpie in the middle of the ground after their premiership win over Collingwood that year.

They made their debut in an away game against Collingwood on 8 May 1897, which they lost 2. 4.

Still smarting from the loss of star players to Collingwood, the Tigers set themselves for war with the Magpies in 1984 by signing three of their players: John Annear, Craig Stewart and Phil Walsh.

As late as 1862 the Wurundjeri were " often seen in their possum skin coats, armed with spears, and retreating mainly to the unsold hill north of Collingwood where they camped with their dogs, played football with a possum-skin ball and fought with other Aborigines ", according to researchers McFarlane and Roberts, reported on in the Herald Sun.

Collingwood was telegraphed for assistance and sent their fire engine by train, but the downtown area was gutted long before it could arrive.

During the next two years Collingwood cruised in the Pacific, visiting the Sandwich Islands ( Hawaii ), Mexico, and Tahiti, where Markham attempted to assist the nationalist rebels against their French governor.

The residents were soon wading in ( their ) own muck ... Collingwood became a cesspool for refuse.

By 1851, gold diggers began making their way through the area, on their journey from the populous suburbs of Fitzroy and Collingwood.

There are bus services that transport students to surrounding high schools of their choice ( either Collingwood Collegiate Institute, Stayner Collegiate Institute, Jean Vanier Catholic High School or Elmvale District High School ).

* Collingwood Football Club-in 1999 played their last game at Victoria Park in Collingwood and moved to the larger and more central Melbourne Cricket Ground.

He requested to be relieved of his command that he might return home, however the government urgently requested an admiral with the experience and skill of Collingwood to remain, on the grounds that his country could not dispense with his services in the face on the still potent threat that the French and their allies could pose.

Between Nelson and Collingwood a close friendship existed, from their first acquaintance in early life until Nelson's death at Trafalgar ; and they lie side by side in St Paul's Cathedral.

Lord Cuthbert Collingwood, 1st Baron Collingwood ( 1748-1810 ), a notable naval commander, and Edward Collingwood ( 1734 – 1806 ), a barrister who ordered the construction of Dissington Hall, had their seat at Chirton Hall in Chirton, now a western suburb of North Shields.

The town raised $ 8000 for its portion of the railway from Clarkstown to Glencairn, about half way to Collingwood.

Transport within Collingwood consists mainly of narrow one way streets.

The house became a public house called The Collingwood Arms, which was demolished in early 2005 to make way for a retirement home.

He was in no way responsible for the narrow streets which later were formed in Fitzroy, Collingwood and Richmond.

Joyce – Collingwood Station is on the old right-of-way once used by the old British Columbia Electric Railway Central Park Line ; this line ran from just west of Nanaimo Station all the way to where the current New Westminster Station is located.

He looked to be on his way to the fifth-fastest ODI century, having hit 94 off 51 balls, but eventually hit one expansive stroke too many as he was bowled by Collingwood.

He looked to be on his way to the fifth-fastest ODI century, having hit 94 off 51 balls, but eventually hit one expansive stroke too many as he was bowled by Collingwood.