The Geelong Football Club, nicknamed The Cats, is a professional Australian rules football club, named after and based in the city of Geelong, playing in the Australian Football League ( AFL ).

Formed in 1859, Geelong is the second oldest club in the AFL after Melbourne and one of the oldest football clubs in the world.

The club's traditional guernsey colours are white guernseys with navy blue hoops, white shorts and navy and white hooped socks and the team song is " We Are Geelong ".

The VFL / AFL's award for the fairest and best player in a season is named after Charles Brownlow, a Geelong and VFL administrator who died in early 1924.

It is the administrative centre for the City of Greater Geelong municipality which covers the urban and surrounding areas and is home to over 181, 000 people.

95. 5 K-Rock ( call sign: 3CAT ) is a commercial FM radio station based in Geelong, Australia.

It is now known as Geelong Hospital.

Another Clifton Springs is a coastal residential township situated 20 km from the city of Geelong, Victoria, Australia.

There is a Kosciusko Avenue in Geelong, and one in Canberra, the capital of Australia.

He is a long-standing supporter of the Geelong Football Club in the Australian Football League ( Aussie Rules ).

A second new course is expected at Deakin University in Geelong, Victoria at the beginning of 2012.

Pinot noir is produced in several wine growing areas of Australia, notably in the Yarra Valley, Geelong, the Bellarine Peninsula, Beechworth, South Gippsland, Sunbury, Macedon Ranges and Mornington Peninsula in Victoria, Adelaide Hills in South Australia, Great Southern Wine Region in Western Australia, all Tasmania, and the Canberra District in the ACT.

Only a few courts exist outside Britain, most notably at Geelong Grammar School in Australia ( the school is often referred to as the ' Eton of Australia '); there are also courts in Geneva, Zurich, Lyceum Alpinum Zuoz, Switzerland, St. Paul's School, Darjeeling, India and Malay College Kuala Kangsar, Malaysia, and two brand new courts have recently been completed in the South of France, in the village of Grillon, Provence.

** Brownlow Medal is awarded to Bernie Smith ( Geelong )

* 18 July — Geelong Football Club is founded

Today Port Phillip is the most densely populated catchment in Australia with an estimated 3 million people living around the bay ; Melbourne's suburbs extend around much of the northern and eastern shorelines, and the city of Geelong sprawls around Corio Bay, in the bay's western arm.

Port Phillip is also home to a number of marinas, including large marinas at St Kilda, Geelong and Brighton.

Presently they skirted its shores south-westerly and came to what is now Corio Bay near Geelong.

* The inaugural Brownlow Medal is awarded to Edward Greeves of Geelong.

The James Harrison bridge spanning the Barwon River in Geelong is named in his honour.

The area between Geelong and Werribee is the driest part of southern Victoria: the crest of the Otway Ranges receives of rain per year and has myrtle beech rainforests much further west than anywhere else, whilst the area around Little River receives as little as annually, which is as little as Nhill or Longreach and supports only grassland.

Geelong holds a number of league records including the longest winning streak in AFL / VFL history ( 23 games ); the most goals kicked in a single game ( on two occasions-37. 17 ( 239 ) against Brisbane in 1992 and 37. 11 ( 233 ) against Melbourne in 2011 ); the highest score recorded in a single game ( 37. 17 ( 239 ) against Brisbane in 1992 ; the highest-ever aggregate season total for points scored ( 3, 334 points in 1992 ); the record for restricting an opponent to the lowest ever score in a game ( St Kilda 0. 1 ( 1 ) in 1899 ); the most consecutive 100-point victories ( 3 games in a row, in 1989 ); the longest winning streak in interstate games ( 12 games ) and achieved the longest home ground winning streak in VFL / AFL history — 29 games straight at Simonds Stadium ( also known as Kardinia Park ).

Geelong played most of its early home games at the Argyle Square, situated between Aberdeen Street and Pakington Street.

The Geelong Football Club was among the most powerful in the VFA ( Victorian Football Association ), winning seven VFA premierships up to the birth of the VFL ( Victorian Football League ) in 1897.

Although based in Geelong, it was notable for being receivable over most of the Melbourne metropolitan area.

He advised Frank to invest in Mac's education and he won a full scholarship to board and study at Geelong College, one of Victoria's most exclusive private schools.

The pedestrian subway was filled in post-closure, but the island platform still exists adjacent to the Millers Road overpass in Altona, and is visible from passing Geelong V / Line trains, and from suburban Werribee services, most of which ceased running on the loop through Altona in May 2011.

It is located in the Western District of Victoria and has always included the regional centre of Colac, but today most of its voters live in the southern suburbs of Geelong or coastal communities such as Anglesea and Queenscliff.

It is a primarily residential area occupying one of the highest points of urban Geelong, has always been a desirable place of residence and it is the location of many of Geelong's oldest and most valuable properties.

Queens Park is also the home ground for the Newtown and Chilwell Cricket Club, the most successful team in the Geelong Cricket Association in terms of senior premierships won.

This proved to be a most successful choice, and ushered in an era of creativity and massive expansion, following the purchase, in 1927, of Bostock House, the Geelong Church of England Grammar Preparatory School in Newtown, and Glamorgan Preparatory School in Toorak in 1928.

He took the school down a liberal path, most notably in early steps towards co-education, with girls from Geelong Church of England Girls ' Grammar School " The Hermitage " taking certain classes at Corio by the early 1970s, but also by making chapel non-compulsory ; a policy later reversed.

Indeed, Tredrea played some of his most explosive football ever highlighted by a dominant seven-goal haul on the All-Australian centre half back, Trent Croad, a pair of five-goal hauls on Matthew Scarlett of Geelong and Mal Michael of Brisbane ; and a best on ground performance against the Kangaroos in the Elimination Final after kicking four goals.

Geelong was the only congregation for many years, the most notable minister after Moore being H. K.

More likely however is that the overall difference would not be significant, as traffic that would previously have travelled through the centre of Geelong via the main Melbourne Road / Latrobe Terrace / James Harrison Bridge / Settlement Road / High Street / Princes Highway West corridor, would now travel via the Geelong Ring Road, improving the environmental condition for the majority of Geelong residents, by removing that traffic from the most heavily populated areas of the city.

Nankervis holds the record of most senior level games for Geelong with 325 VFL games.

For the year, he was named most improved player at Geelong.

They are third most popular Croatian backed club in Victoria behind the Melbourne Knights and North Geelong Warriors.

Dunedin ( ship ) | Dunedin, the first commercially successful refrigerated ship Meanwhile in Australia, James Harrison began operation of a mechanical ice-making machine in 1851 on the banks of the Barwon River at Rocky Point in Geelong, Victoria.

St Kilda's early years in the VFL were not successful and, in 1899, they had the lowest score ever recorded in a VFL / AFL match, one point against Geelong ( who scored 162 ).

At the end of 2006 Tasmanian and former Sydney Swan Daryn Cresswell was named coach of the club for 2007 after a successful career as an assistant coach at Geelong and the Brisbane Lions.

Within a few years he was a successful shopkeeper and wine merchant on the Geelong goldfields.