About
Ivanhoe Football Club has a long and proud history which has spawned numerous premierships, many fine players, and a fair number of memorably colourful characters. The club was formed in 1910, but during its first couple of years only engaged in social matches. When the Heidelberg District Football Association was established in 1912 Ivanhoe took its place as an inaugural member, with the team donning, for the first time, the black and white jumpers that have been associated with it ever since.
When the HDFA disbanded in 1922, Ivanhoe crossed to the Sub-District Football League (SDFL), where it remained until it joined the VAFA in 1934.
Probably the best known personality associated with Ivanhoe during the club’s initial half a century and more of involvement in the VAFA was not a player or coach but a larger than life supporter who was “the epitome of the love, friendship and camaraderie that exists at amateur level”.
Ida Marcon – popularly known as ‘Dame Ida’ or ‘Ivanhoe Ida’ – was actually just more than just a supporter. From the early 1930s until her death in 1990 she demonstrably imbued and immersed herself in all things Ivanhoe, invariably referring to the club’s players as “my boys”, and devoting long hours, plus copious amounts of energy and drive, to raising funds and performing innumerable behind the scenes tasks. Despite manifesting an apparent, and very vocal, detestation of everything on the field of play not bedecked in an Ivanhoe jumper, she was widely respected, even loved, by opponents almost as much as her beloved Hoes.
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Ivanhoe
Home Ground
Ivanhoe Park, The Boulevard, Ivanhoe
Location
Ivanhoe is a suburb of Melbourne, located 10 km northeast of Melbourne’s CBD. The land occupied by Ivanhoe was one of several portions near the Warringal (later Heidelberg) village surveyed in 1837. Sales occurred the following year and, the Ivanhoe portion was considered to be of unusual fertility and landscape appeal. It had Darebin Creek on the west and the Yarra River on the south. By the 1850s there was an Ivanhoe village, a name derived from Sir William Scott’s novel.
Premierships
A Section: 1956
B Section: 1936, 1954, 1969
C Section: 1935
D Section: 1934
