Collegians Football Club, nicknamed the Lions, is an Australian rules football club based in the Melbourne suburb of Albert Park.

In 1891, Lawrence Adamson established a Wesley College Old Boys' XVIII, which formally became Collegians Football Club in 1892.

In 1892, Adamson established the Metropolitan Junior Football Association (MJFA), of which he was president for 37 years, which later was renamed to the VAFA.

[7] The lyrics were written by Lawrence Arthur Adamson set to the tune of a traditional Irish Folk Tune, "Irish Jaunting Car", and the later tune "The Bonnie Blue Flag", a song from the Confederacy during the American Civil War.

[8] The original lyrics refer to the interim school colours "Blue and White", which returned to "Gold and Purple" at the end of 1902.