Received life membership in 1974.
Barry McCabe who passed away on Sunday 8 December at the age of 93, was a pivotal figure in Canberra‘s Australian Rules football community. As the inaugural Secretary and Licensee of the Ainslie Football […]
Received life membership in 1973.
Keith’s over forty years of service to the football club took many forms. After arriving at the club in 1960 and retiring from playing in 1974, Keith played 106 senior games. His playing highlights included […]
Received life membership in 1972.
Norm “Nifty” Neeson was playing AFL at a senior level from a young age, by his mid 20s he had already played for both North Melbourne in the AFL and Coburg in the VFA. These two […]
Received life membership in 1971.
Beginning his work with Ainslie in 1959 Fred initially was a member of the clubs table tennis team but would go on to work with the club in multiple roles including team manager, committee member between […]
Received life membership in 1970.
John Rowe only played with Ainslie in 1960 but he was still committed to developing the club, becoming a committee member in 1960 he would work hard to earn join the vice presidents in 1963 alongside […]
Received life membership in 1967.
Allan Hawke began playing at Ainslie with the junior team back in 1946, continuing to play there until he reached the senior team in 1952, picking up a few best and fairest awards along the way […]
Received life membership in 1966.
Barry was a player at Ainslie starting in 1945 and would continue to play for 20 years, retiring from the field in 1965. During that time he played in premiership teams in the years 1958, 59, […]
Received life membership in 1965.
Lionel James Jnr started to play for Ainslie roughly around the same time his father finished coaching the teams, passing the torch from father to son. Lionel would play for Ainslie between 1951 and 1956 playing […]