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Over two deacades more than 200 articles have appeared on the Blueseum, you can find them all on this page. Article Writers By Rod Mitchell By Michael Olsen By Jamie Sanderson Round by Round Summaries Revisiting the Rounds! Rounds 1 to 5 Rounds 6 to 10 Rounds 11 to 14 Rounds 15 to 18 Rounds 19 to 22 Historical Events How the Blues become Blue 1868: Football's Earliest Image? 1870: A Football Match 1879: Forty for ever! Football in Prose 1882 Carlton AGM held at the Clyde Hotel, Elgin Street Carlton, April 04 1884: Carlton Football Club - Notes of their Adelaide Trip 1885: Football Rowdyism 1888: Carlton v England 1888: A Great Football Match 1890: Carlton on tour in NSW 1906-1908: Our Triple Premiers 1906: Our First VFL Premiership 1907: Our Second Premiership 1908: Three in a Row 1906-1908: Our Hat Trick Heroes 1909: The Big C of Carlton Doug Fraser and the 1910 Bribery Scandal 1934: A Carlton Reunion The 1938 Premiership: 70 years on - McIntyre Remembers 1947: A Historic Brownlow Count 1947: Remembering THAT Goal The 1970 Prelim Final 1980: George and Jezza depart 1991: Trading for Williams 1995 – 1999: The ‘Hyundai’ Years 2002: If the Cap Fits The Horrible Slide of 2002 The Great Turnover of 2003 2007: Youthful Blues 2008: Fevola’s Big Year A Change of Interchange 2012: The End of the Ratten Era 2015: The Re-Collapse 2015: X-Blues: Carlton reps playing finals elsewhere 2018: The Black Cat Spoon When Carlton Conquered Canberra 30 years on, Ian Rice tells Oh the Memories... The Old Blues Lily of Laguna: An older version? Every Picture tells a Story When Cocky Marr was Carlton King A Letter from Horrie The Charlie Parsons Project What’s in a Name? Time to immortalise Jezza’s jump Hello Bluebird Birth of the WOOF Carlton's Greatest Mark The Peanut Man, Carlton and Me The Carlton Aboriginal All-Stars A True Blue calls it a day A Splice of History The Magnificent Seven Waiting to play Finals Footy! Big Name Recruits to the CFC The Fish That Got Away Barren Blues - Few Goals in Long Careers Career Limiting Injuries Top 10 Players of the 1980’s Our 5 most popular games And there was controversy when... Tragedies in Blue The Carlton Smiths Despised to Blue Carlton’s Top Tenners Our First Draft Picks Each Year Great H&A Wins of the 1980's Great H&A Wins of the 1990's Great H&A Wins of the 2000's The BIG Numbers The Best Teams by Guernsey Number Carlton's Best Facial Hair! Moving on Up Triumphs and Tribulations of a Blue Debut Carlton Hyphens! Simmo Breaks the Number 6 Record Legends of the Fall - Carlton Style Cheersquad History Captured by the Camera of Kev Our song: Alby's book sheds further light Archive of Rod McGregor Articles The Tassie Link: Bolton and Valentine Named: Best Bluebeards Back to the Future Blueseum Special Series Articles by Teddy Hopkins Our Memorable Game series Footy Folklore Articles Our From the Outer series Outside the Centre Square Carlton Poetry Archive 1888-1889 US Baseball Tour 10 Years of the Blueseum 20 Years of the Blueseum Ultimate Carlton Premiership Party Mix Tape Historic finds for the CFC and Blueseum! I Got The Blues: Following Carlton

Against the Competition That Other Great War - Carlton v Collingwood Great Finals wins over the Bombers Carlton and Collingwood as friends Mutch Ado About Nothing Supernova - Our Explosion against the Suns The Top-Ups who turned up Elsewhere The Magical 'Three Goal Average' Commemorations Blues big man Sorrell Dies Vale Tom Simmons Vale Wes Lofts Vale George Ilsley Vale Allan Greenshields Vale Ken Hands Vale Michael Young Vale Keith McKenzie Blues' man of passion Millson remembered Vale Colin Holt Vale Rod Galt Vale Kevin O'Brien Vale Richard Gill Former Carlton rover Leo Brereton passes away Vale John Lloyd Vale Frank McGrath Vale Ken Aitken Vale John Heathcote Vale Max Wenn Vale Arthur Sleith Vale Harry Dern Vale Fred Stafford Vale Denning and Clarke Vale John James Carlton farewells 'Tubby' Clapton Vale Pat Farrelly Vale Tom Dillon Vale Jim Mooring Champion Wingman John Chick Dies Sports Visionary John Cheffers Dies RIP Ron Auchettl Carlton midfielder Max Howell dies Carlton farewells Chris Pavlou Time called for long-serving official Carlton tearaway Collins Dies Vale Richard Pratt Premiership Player Peter McLean dies Vale Ray Garby Carlton’s “dasher” Denis Zeunert dies Harry Gyles: Carlton and the Community Remembering Frank Hyett, 1883-1919 Carlton’s VFL Pioneers: Frank Gomez Carlton’s VFL Pioneers: Wally Powell Carlton’s VFL Pioneers: Otto Buck Weekends with Maurie 1864 Pioneer - Tom Power Revealed Carlton gains from Don's generosity Tumilty and the Tasmanian Tradition Pre-VFL: The 'Ivo' Crapp Story Pre-VFL: The John Gardiner Story Balharry comes through! Carlton War Hero Emerges: Andrew Dougall Carlton and the Brothers Curtis Jack Massey: Carlton’s MBE Recipient The Robert Heatley Story Here's Wally - The first Ocock Picture Koochew - Celebrated on Canvas The Peter Bevilacqua Story Remembering the Gillespie Twins Norman Clark: Carlton Legend The Blues at War Carlton's Little Big Man Willie Rogers remembered The Jack Worrall Story The Harcourt Dowsley Story Clen Denning’s Unique Record Barbiere Ufficiale de CFC Chitty plays Ned Kelly The lost painting of Bert Deacon Ken Hopper snaps Carlton’s history Bobby Green: Bobby's Boy Returns Our First Father/Son The Cyril Mann Story The George Harris Story Bob Lane: Blues Honour Policeman Big Blue Family - Finding Sankey The Cottrell Lineage Hands - Master Recruiter Kekovich - the Goal Kicking Hero of 1968 The Max Dixon Story - Welcome to Carlton (circa 1971) Alias Smith and Lukimitis Chris Pavlou: 50 years in Navy Blue Living in the Seventies ’Parko’: Coach of the Century The Rod Waddell Story Kouta’s Legacy From Cork to Carlton Glory with your first steps The Longest Route to Glory! Our Greatest Flagless Greats Murphy's Lore - 100 Game Grandson Zach follows in Freddy's footsteps Jeff breaks Robbo's record - Guernsey #38 Godfathers of the Goal Square Gibbs & Judd related? Den outdoes Ollie Simmo moves in to Top 10 (games played) From 'Lanty' to 'Simmo' - Blues Brothers 156-year unbroken run The Gardiner Stand - Frank Stapley's Grand Design All roads lead to Carlton for Crowe Brook Hannah: God's Footballer Guernsey 38: Jeff's Journey just the beginning Simmo breaks the No. 6 Record Wells clan follows in Jack's footsteps It's Clark in a photo How Carlton helped "Pompey" through