Editing Essendon Football Club (section)

=== "Same Olds" ===
[[File:Dave smith essendon.jpg|thumb|upright|[[David Smith (sportsman)|Dave Smith]] captained Essendon to premiership success in 1911.]]
The club is recorded as having played at McCracken's Paddock, Glass's Paddock, and Flemington Hill. It is likely that these are three different names for the one ground, given that McCracken's Paddock was a parcel of land that sat within the larger Glass's Paddock, which in turn was situated in an area widely known at the time as Flemington Hill. In 1882, the club moved home games to the [[East Melbourne Cricket Ground]] (since demolished) after an application to play on the Essendon Cricket Ground (later known as Windy Hill) was voted down by Lord Mayor of the [[City of Essendon]], James Taylor, on the basis that the considered the Essendon Cricket Ground "to be suitable only for the gentleman's game of cricket".<ref>{{cite web|url=http://shawfactor.com/reference/history-of-windy-hill-Essendon/ |title=History of Windy Hill (Essendon Recreation Reserve) |publisher=Shawfactor.com |access-date=17 October 2012}}</ref>

The club became known by the nickname "the Same Old Essendon" from the title and [[hook (music)|hook]] of the principal song performed by a band of supporters which regularly occupied a section of the grandstand at the club's games.<ref>{{cite news|newspaper=North Melbourne Advertiser|page=3|date=3 August 1889|title=Football – Essendon v. North Melbourne|publication-place=North Melbourne}}</ref> The nickname first appeared in print in the local ''[[North Melbourne Advertiser]]'' in 1889,<ref>{{cite news|newspaper=North Melbourne Advertiser|page=3|date=31 August 1889|title=Football – Essendon v. Carlton|publication-place=North Melbourne}}</ref> and ended up gaining wide use, often as the diminutive "Same Olds".<ref>{{Cite book|title=The Full Points Footy Encyclopedia of Australian Football Clubs|last=Devaney|first=John|publisher=Lulu.com|year=2008|isbn=978-0-9556897-0-3|pages=174}}</ref>

This move away from Essendon, at a time when fans would walk to their local ground, didn't go down too well with many Essendon people; and, as a consequence, a new team and club was formed in 1900, unconnected with the first (although it played in the same colours), that was based at the Essendon Cricket Ground, and playing in the [[Victorian Football Association]]. It was known firstly as [[Essendon Association Football Club|Essendon Town]] and, after 1905, as Essendon (although it was often called Essendon A, with the A standing for association).<ref>Maplestone, M., ''Flying Higher: History of the Essendon Football Club 1872–1996'', Essendon Football Club, (Melbourne), 1996. {{ISBN|978-0-9591740-2-1}}</ref>