AWARDS, TROPHIES and CUPS The Geelong College holds a large collection of awards, trophies, cups, award books and certificates awarded to students of the School. Some of these are on display at the Preparatory School, and Principal’s Drawing Room.
All donated or acquired awards and trophies as well as those withdrawn from current use have been catalogued and may be searched in the Archives Catalog which is accessible through the Heritage and History website.
Masters Trophy, 1891 (150 yard sprint)
won by Strickland.
Masters Trophy, 1878 (150 yard sprint)
won by J C Bell Made by Fischer,
this trophy was provided by W B Haines
and consists of half an emu egg
mounted in silver on a black stand
and having at the top a hinged ink-pot
surmounted by a silver emu.
The whole is covered by a glass dome.
This trophy was bequeathed to the School
in 1981 by the daughter of J C Bell
of Woolbrook, Teesdale - M K A Bell of Bellbrae.
Sources: Ad Astra June, 1981.