Newborough-Yallourn United SC

Having played for Luton Town, Bolton Wanderers and Arsenal, Elvey was arguably the most credentialed footballer to set foot in Australia at that point.

In 1920, Elvey had moved from Luton to Bolton for the then-record fee of GBP £2,500, but by 1925 had accepted an offer to come to Australia and be engaged as a bricklayer in the construction of the boilers in the Yallourn 'A' Power Station.

Elvey's footwork was superb, and his technique showed himself a professional, for we are informed that he is an ex-Bolton Wanderers player (one of England's leading first Division teams) and was bought by that club from Luton from the sum of 3,500 [sic] pounds."

[12][13] Yallourn SC also made the quarter-finals of the Dockerty Cup - twice - losing at that stage to Park Rangers in 1948 and eventual champions Moreland City in 1950.

The Championship was secured on the final day of the season (Saturday, August 4, 1951) when the side travelled to Melbourne to play South Yarra.

Whilst South Yarra scored soon after, Yallourn would run out 2-1 victors and become the first regional team to win an Australian state league championship.

[19] However, the club was unable to celebrate becoming champions on the day, for they would have to wait until their appeal against a two point fine for an incorrect team sheet entry against Box Hill in May was heard on August 13.

The appeal was successful, with Box Hill officials defending Yallourn and persuading the Victorian Amateur Soccer Football Association Council to drop the points deduction.

Yalloun were instead fined £3, and second-placed Sunshine United - who still had a match to play - were now four points behind, officially handing Yallourn the title.

[26] The club was the highest ranked of any Gippsland team until the 1978 season, when the Morwell Falcons were promoted to the Victorian Metropolitan League Division Three, finishing 3rd, three places ahead of Yallourn.

First was the "Eastern Oval", a location adjacent to the workers camp, east of the Yallourn 'A' Power Station, on land that previously was Saviges' farm.