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Club State VIC
Club Name POWER HOUSE
Club Commenced 1930's
Club Ceased 1951
Club Uniform Green, black and white vertical stripes with gold coronet
Club History In the late 1920’s His Excellency Lord Somers (Then Governor of Victoria) and a very old friend, Dr. C. Gordon McAdam, planned and started an annual camp for boys. This camp was duly named Lord Somers Camp, situated at Lord Somers Road, Somers (Mornington Peninsula) and the one hundred lads who attend it each year are selected, fifty from industrial firms and fifty from public schools. The village was originally called Balnarring East but it was changed to Somers in 1925.It was named after Lord Somers, Governor of Victoria, who had established a boys camp at Coolart. Any boy who passes through an annual camp automatically becomes a member of Power House, the club being so called because it is its aim, among other things, to develop young leaders. Early in the 1930’s the club began to extend its activities, and lacrosse was soon included, the team entered in the V.L.A. competition, meeting with moderate success. Today Power House is primarily involved in AFL football, rugby union and rowing. Interest in the game soon increased, and in 1937 a second team was entered and the senior team was promoted to “B” grade. Two years later, when the club was rapidly gaining strength, war was declared, and almost every member joined the forces. The war over, thought was given to the reforming of the club, but a number of our members having paid the supreme sacrifice and seven years having elapsed since the club was at its peak, it was quite apparent that active players would be hard to muster. Nothing ventured, nothing gained; a team was entered and a number of the old stalwarts came to the rescue. They did well, climaxing their efforts with an undefeated 1949 season to take the “B” grade pennant. This year (1950) youth has again started to take its place in our side, and though we are at the moment rebuilding the hard way, we hope that it will not be very long before we are on the upgrade again. Secretary is Mr G. Thompson. The last record of this lacrosse club is found in “The Age” on 10 September 1951 where Power House defeated Caulfield to take out the “D” grade premiership. Most of the above is an extract from the souvenir programme from the All-Australian Lacrosse Carnival held in Melbourne in July 1950, kindly provided by Roy Sloggett.