WinstonHills Soccer Club
1963-2002
WinstonHills was first known as Model Farms and the name was changed in around 1963 by Hookers when they opened up a housing estate using the WinstonHills name.
John Books chaired a Progress Association meeting in November 1969, when the idea was moted that some sporting Clubs should be established. The Progress Association Sports Committee then organised a meeting, which was held in a Hooker exhibition home at the corner of Lanhams Road and Hillcrest Avenue, on 17 March 1970. This meeting was arranged by Arthur Jackman (who had no children associated with the Club but who was keen to see sporting Clubs established in the area), who later became the first Club President. The meeting was well attended with some 30 to 40 people interested enough in forming the Club. A further meeting was held seven days later and the first Constitution was signed by the first Management Committee and approved by the first 32 members of the Club.
At the meeting, Wayne Muller and Jim Bird took responsibility for getting soccer going. There were a lot of Englishmen living in the area at the time and it was generally considered that getting a soccer Club going would not be too hard. The first registration day signed on 74 soccer players from which five teams were entered into the Granville Districts competition. By the time the season was only 50% complete, the number of teams had increased to 10, with 157 players registered. An all age social team had also been formed. Three teams qualified for finals this first year. In the second year of the Club, the number of teams playing soccer increased to 19 and the Winston Hills Soccer Club was off and running.
Once the Club has been entered into the Granville Association, because they had no shirts, the first games were played in a green and white strip, which had been borrowed, from Holroyd Rangers. When it came round to getting the colours organised, there were naturally a lot of differing opinions going around. People put forward various colour schemes while others actually brought in existing shirts to put forward their case. John Lowe wanted a one-colour strip and suggested that the all orange strip, the same as worn by Wolverhampton Wanderers, would be a good one to choose. He reasoned that teams dressed in the one colour always seemed to look taller and it was only the inability to obtain an orange coloured material for the shorts, which stopped that idea from going through. However, most people were eventually against the one colour idea and wanted a two-tone strip. They didn‟t want to be associated with any other Club, preferring to have their own identity. A number of colours were discarded because they clashed with other Clubs. Wayne Muller brought along a shirt from his old RegentsParkBaptistChurch team, which featured the tangerine colour we now wear and this was adopted along with black shorts. The colour of the shorts was chosen because a lot of the children at that time were wearing the shorts that were worn by Balmain in those days. The socks started out as an all orange affair before changing to orange with black hoops and then changing to our present colours of black socks with the orange hoops.