Polly
Australian football legend, Graham ‘Polly’ Farmer is being celebrated at the Geelong Sports Museum. Presented by the Museum and Bob Gartland OAM, the Museum’s latest exhibition includes artefacts and images from the Bob Gartland collection, and the Polly Farmer Foundation.
The exhibition invites visitors to look back into a time when Polly football cards were traded for marbles, Polly posters were plastered on bedroom walls and newspaper clippings were pasted into scrapbooks. Visitors are also invited to share their own stories about Polly on the memory wall.
While Polly’s impact on football was significant, his greatest legacy is the Polly Farmer Foundation. Started in 1997 in the Pilbara with 23 students, the Foundation’s Follow the Dream program now empowers more than 3000 Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander students at 150 schools across Australia, including Northern Bay College and Western Heights College in Geelong, to succeed at school and achieve their career aspirations.
Today and every day we pay our respects to the Traditional Owners of the land on which we live, work and play, the Wadawurrung people. We pay respects to their Elders past, present and future. We recognise Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples as the First Nations people and their continuous and inseparable connection to the land, its waterways and skies. Visitors should be aware that this museum may contain images, voices or names of deceased persons in photographs, film, audio recordings or printed material.
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