John McGuirk was one of the ex-Britannia players who featured in Collingwood’s debut season in

A handy forward who played one match for Collingwood in 1892, having previously notched up 43 games

Collingwood leant heavily on Tasmania as a source of recruits in its earliest days, with names such

Mackie started his football with a local Fitzroy club called Rainbow. In 1890 he was given an

It wasn’t unusual in the 1890s for a footballer to be good at other sports. But there weren’t too

Dick Langford crammed a lot of drama into a relatively short career at Collingwood. One of

Given the antipathy that existed between Collingwood and Fitzroy in the 1890s, there was actually a

Jack Joyce was known to some as ‘The Father of Collingwood’, such was his impact on our football

Only played two games for Collingwood, but one of them was the club's first game against Carlton in

Young defender who showed 'promise of excellence', according to press reports, but left for Fitzroy

John Hegarty holds an unwanted place in Collingwood history - as the first player to have died

Strong defender from Bairnsdale. Also possible he was known as