About The University of Tasmania Lions Football Club
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The University of Tasmania Lions Football Club was established in 1923 by Fred Archer as the Mowbray Football Club. The club was formed to play in social rosters among other Northern sides, with most games being played in the middle of the Mowbray Racecourse.
In 1930 the Mowbray Football Club established clubroom in the wharf end of Forster Street Invermay.
Heinricke became the first Mowbray player to reach 100 club goals in a season when he scored 8 goals against Technical College in 1936.
In 1946 the Mowbray Football Club joined the Northern Amateur League competition and won the premiership in their first year.
Mowbray was stripped of the Northern and State Premiership they had won in 1949. Where Terry Cowley was deemed ineligible on the grounds that he had forfeited his amateur status by playing for and coaching Mowbray for a reward. The decision was later overturned by an admission from the divisional secretary that the meeting was unconstitutional.
1954 saw the club moved to a new home ground at Birdwood Oval, Brooks High School Mowbray.
Mowbray Football Club re-joined the Northern Amateur League in 1964 and won the premiership the following year in 1965.
The club left the Invermay Clubrooms in 1970 and based itself at the Retreat Hotel. Due to the development of the university, they lost their home ground at Brooks High School in 1980. They began playing home games at the N.T.C.A Ground and St Patricks, which they returned to the University Oval in 1984. At this time, they also joined the NTFA Division 2.
The new clubrooms at the Universal Oval began construction in 1987 and was completed in 1988.
In 1993, the Club changed its name to University-Mowbray to form a partnership with the University. This change allowed them to have a permanent residence on the University grounds.
The University Mowbray Football Club sold their clubrooms in 2010 and moved into the new clubrooms built for the University Sports Club, which is where we are now