DES DARCY MEMORIAL MEDAL

The stories that could be told about the late Des. Darcy would fill this website over and over again.

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A larger-than-life character, Darcy was a sporting administrator of enormous capacity, specialising in the fields of football, racing and cricket.

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The spectacular success of his long secretarial association with the former V.C.F.L. president Allan Dunstan has been well documented, and is written indelibly into North-Central history.

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As secretary and president respectively, they led the Donald Football Club when it won its triple premiership in 1963.

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A decade later, holding those same positions in the administration of the North-Central League, they teamed with Merv. Young (Mallee League president), Frank Tuck (District coach) and Maurie Wood (team captain) to set up North-Central's "finest hour" - the 1974 Country Championships victory.

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Darcy died in 1980. The Des Darcy Memorial Medal, for the best and fairest player in the North-Central League's senior grand final each year, fittingly perpetuates his memory.