Four new members inducted into Hampden league's Hall of Fame

Terang's Dick Wearmouth and Ian Blackburn, Port Fairy's George Swarbrick and Koroit's Brian Collins will be inducted into the HFNL's Hall of Fame on Wednesday, August 28.

The quartet joins 20 icons - three of those legends - the league's prestigious group.

- Recruited from Rupanyup to the Victorian Football League in Melbourne by Footscray

- 1944, aged 17, won the VFL reserves best and fairest - Gardiner Medal - and played two senior games

- Missed football for season 1945 due to his commitments with the Royal Australian Airforce during World War II

- Player 100 senior games for Footscray in the VFL between 1944 and 1952

- Kicked 27 goals throughout his VFL career

- Represented Victoria in 1951

- In 1951 he polled the second highest amount of Brownlow votes for Footscray, 12th overall

- Extremely accurate disposal meant he never wasted a kick

- At the end of 1952, aged just 26, accepted the coaching role at Terang Football Club

- He received 15 pounds a week at Terang, compared to the three pounds a week he was receiving at Footscray

- Coached Terang from 1953 to 1958

- Captain-coached Terang to grand final in 1954 against South Warrnambool

- Captain-coach and best player for Terang in 1955 premiership over Colac

- Captain-coach and best player for Terang in 1956 premiership over Port Fairy

- Spent time as a selector and committee member when coaching career came to an end at Terang

- Never won a Terang club best and fairest, only because its coach was never eligible for votes

- Life member of Terang Football Club

- Life member of Footscray Football Club

- Upon retiring Hampden Football League President George Mathierson was quoted as saying: "As a player and leader Dick Weamouth had no peer. As Sir Donald Bradman is to Australian cricket, so also is Dick Wearmouth to the Hampden Football League".

- Coached Noorat under 17s to premiership in 1967

- Coached Mt Noorat League Representative Junior team 1967

- Secretary of Terang sub-branch of the Australian Labour Party

- Premiership captain of Terang's under 18s in 1955

- Played 122 senior matches for Terang

- Played over 200 reserves matches for Terang

- Played most of his career in the centre or on a wing

- Lew Kelly Cup winner for Hampden League reserves best and fairest in 1963 with only 12 votes after missing nine games. Won on a countback from South Warrnambool's John Irving

- Coached Terang's reserves team during the 1960s

- Mid-season 1964 took over as caretaker senior coach of Terang, replacing Lionel Ryan (Footscray)

- Coached Terang's under 16's in the mid 70s

- Chairman of selectors at Terang for 12 years from 1974-85

- During his tenure as chairman of selectors Terang made the finals in 1976, 1977, 1978, 1979, 1980, 1981 and 1982

- Terang played in seven consecutive Hampden League grand finals between 1976-82

- Whilst chairman of selectors Terang won premierships in 1979 and 1981

- Life member of Terang Mortlake Football Netball Club

- Selector for Hampden Football League interleague team for five years

- Hampden Football Netball League tribunal member for 18 years

- Chairman Hampden Football Netball League tribunal for 13 years

- Life member of Hampden Football Netball League

- Many years service to the Terang Recreation Reserve Committee of Mangement

- Captain-coach of Noorat Football Club for three years in the early 70s

- A grade cricketer for Terang Cricket Club

- A grade squash player at Terang

- Board of Management Member at Terang and Mortlake Healthcare

- Member of Terang College School Council

- Member of Terang Lions Club

- Over 240 senior games for Koroit

- Playing career commenced in 1963 and concluded in 1981

- Playing career commenced at age 12 with the Koroit's under 15's

- Progressed to under 17's, finishing premiers and champions in 1967

- Senior debut at 16 in 1968 under coach Noel Raitt, playing all 18 games in debut season

- Koroit's senior best and fairest in 1975

- Runner-up as Koroit's senior best and fairest on three occasions to Rob Brian, Ian Chambers and Neil McLeod

- Vice-captain Koroit's senior premiership teams of 1971 and 1973

- Played on the wing for captain-coach Les Cameron in 1971 premiership victory over Port Fairy

- Lined up at centre-half back for captain-coach Gary Cameron in 1973 premiership win over Colac

- Represented Koroit in finals campaigns in 1971, 1973, 1974, 1978, 1979 and 1981

- Represented Hampden Football League at interleague level on three occasions; 1973 and 1974 - twice under coach Brian McCarthy

- Half-back flank in 1973 at Reid Oval against Kowree-Naracoorte Football League

- Named in best players, kicking three goals from half-forward flank in 1974 at Colac against Latrobe Valley Football League

- Kicked three goals in 1974 against North Central Football League at Reid Oval

- Koroit's reserves coach in 1976 whilst still playing seniors

- Playing senior captain-coach at Koroit in 1980 and 1981, finishing sixth and first respectively

- Koroit's under 18 coach in 1983

- Senior selector under coach Paul Stafford 1984 -1986

- Koroit's under 16 coach 1987-90

- Senior coach at Koroit in 1991

- Koroit's under 13/14 coach 1992, 1993 and 1994, winning back-to-back premierships in 1993-94

- Was involved at Koroit in a coaching or selection capacity from 1980 to 1994

- 1993 Hampden Region Coaches Association's youth coach of the year

- Life member of the Koroit Football Netball Club

- Member of Koroit's Team of Half Century announced in 2012

- 2013, when finished dairying, reacquainted with Koroit as a Volunteer

- Playing career commenced in 1947 with Hawkesdale's under 18s

- Debuted in Hawkesdale's senior team in 1949

- Played for Geelong in the VFL 1952 and 1953 - playing 23 Senior games and kicking eight goals

- Senior playing-coach of Penshurst Football Club in Western Border League in 1954

- Senior playing-coach of Heywood Football Club in Western Border League in 1955

- Senior playing-coach of Hawkesdale in Portland/Port Fairy League 1956 and 1957

- Four seasons of senior football at Port Fairy Football Club

- Playing career at Port Fairy commenced in 1958 finishing in 1961

- Ruckman - at 6 ft 4 inches - in Port Fairy's inaugural premiership team of 1958 defeating Colac

- Port Fairy only made the 1958 finals by percentage and survived playing every finals match

- Won four consecutive senior best and fairest awards at Port Fairy - 1958, 1959, 1960 and 1961

- Back-to-back Hampden Football League Maskell Cup winner 1958 and 1959 with 29 votes each year

- Finished with votes in 13 of 1958's 18 matches defeating Colac's Fred Lynch and Camperdown's Peter Stephens by 15

- Season 1959 he polled votes in 13 of 15 games to win by five votes from Mortlake's Ken Beardsley

- Back-to-back Maskell Cup runner-up 1960 and 1961

- Runner-up to Terang's Ian Scott in 1960 with 23 votes and runner-up with 22 votes to Fred Lynch in 1961

- Averaged one and half Maskell Cup votes for every game he played

- Committee member at Port Fairy in the mid 80s

- Life member of the Port Fairy Football Netball Club

- A fine player who used his height and leap to achieve his best

- Claimed by many that he was at his "peak" in his time with the Seagulls

- Coach Hawkesdale's under 18 team 1962

- Member of Hawkesdale's senior premiership team of 1966

- Playing career finished in 1967 with Hawkesdale

- Long-serving administrator with Hawkesdale

- Chairman of selectors at Hawkesdale in 1979 and 1980

Have you signed up to The Standard's daily newsletter and breaking news emails? You can register below and make sure you are up to date with everything that's happening in the south-west.