Box Hill Football Club was formed in 1921 as the Box Hill Junior Football Club. The club is currently playing in the Victorian Football League. They have an alliance with the Hawthorn Hawks Football club in the Australian Football League. Image File history File linksMetadata Boxhillhawks. ... Image File history File linksMetadata Boxhillhawks. ... The Victorian Football League is regarded as one of Australias most important professional football leagues. ... Hawthorn Football Club logo The Hawthorn Football Club, known by their nickname The Hawks are an Australian rules football club playing in the Australian Football League. ... This is a page about the national league in Australian Rules Football. ...
BoxHill was first settled by the squatter Arundel Wrighte, formerly of Van Diemen's Land, who in 1838 took up a pastoral lease on the land he had previously explored in the Bushy Creek area.
In 1871 BoxHill township's population was 154 and the district relied on orchards, vineyards and mixed farming.
BoxHill city was amalgamated with Nunawading city on 15 December, 1994, to form Whitehorse city renewing the boundaries that began with the Nunawading parish and subsequent shire.
BoxHill Football Club was formed in 1936 and played in the Eastern Suburban League prior to its admission to the VFA, along with Moorabbin, in 1951.
The grand final of that year pitted BoxHill against Oakleigh and resulted in a resounding (and indeed record) 135 point win for the Mustangs, 32.23 (215) to 11.14 (80).
In 2000 BoxHill forged an alliance with AFL club Hawthorn as the VFL competition underwent a radical overhaul.
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