[2] Believed to have formed in 1902, the club initially played in the Warrnambool District Football Association competition in 1904 against Allensford, Rainbow and West End.

[7] The admission of Hamilton into the Western District FA in 1926,[8] caused additional traveling costs and problems with extra time away from home.

In 1926, Camperdown members joined the Colac Football Association,[9] only to rejoin the Western District FA after a couple of seasons.

The Hampden Football League was formed in 1930,[11] when the four founding clubs broke away from the Western District FL.

Terang and Camperdown did not want to continue to travel to Hamilton because their players were farmers who could not spend all day away from the farm to play football.