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Over two deacades more than 200 articles have appeared on the Blueseum, you can find them all on this page.



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By Tony De Bolfo
By Pete McLean
By Rod Mitchell
By Michael Olsen
By Jamie Sanderson
By Warren Tapner
By Stephen Williamson

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