The club was formed as the Clarendon Football Club in 1878 in connection with the cricket club of the same name,[1] before changing its name to East Melbourne in 1879;[2] some observers considered the club a resuscitation of an earlier East Melbourne Football Club which had played at a junior and later senior level during the early to mid-1870s.[3]
The club played two seasons as a junior club, and was the leading junior club in the colony in 1879, having beaten every junior club it played during the year.[3] It was elevated to senior status the following year, and played as a senior VFA club from 1880 until 1882.
However, the club never was competitive at senior level, and failed to win a game against a senior opponent in its three seasons with an overall record of four draws and twenty-five losses from twenty-nine matches.
They dropped out of the VFA and disbanded in August 1882 [4] having lost their six games against senior opponents that year and being goalless while having 35 goals kicked against them.
^"Football". The Age. Melbourne, VIC. 13 April 1878. p. 7.
^"Meetings of Football Clubs". The Argus. Melbourne, VIC. 9 April 1879. p. 7.
^ ab"Football – retrospect of the season". Weekly Times. Melbourne, VIC. 18 October 1879. p. 20.
^"Football Notes". The Argus. Melbourne, VIC. 2 September 1882. p. 10.
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