Alf Wood (Australian footballer)
| Alf Wood | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Personal information | |||
| Full name | Alfred Mathew Wood | ||
| Date of birth | 15 February 1875 | ||
| Place of birth | Glenlyon, Victoria | ||
| Date of death | 16 November 1945 (aged 70) | ||
| Place of death | East Melbourne, Victoria | ||
| Original team(s) | Maryborough | ||
| Position(s) | Defence | ||
| Playing career1 | |||
| Years | Club | Games (Goals) | |
| 1897–1899 | Melbourne | 43 (4) | |
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1 Playing statistics correct to the end of 1899. | |||
| Sources: AFL Tables, AustralianFootball.com | |||
Alfred Mathew Wood (15 February 1875 – 16 November 1945) was an Australian rules footballer who played for the Melbourne Football Club in the Victorian Football League (VFL).[1]
Football[edit]
On many occasions the press (mistakenly) identified him as "Woods", rather than "Wood".[2]
Melbourne (VFL)[edit]
His first game for Melbourne was on the half-back flank, against South Melbourne, at the Lake Oval, on 8 May 1897, the first round of the first year of the new VFL competition.
VFL representative[edit]
Wood played in the VFL team against Ballarat Football League in 1898.[3]
1899 team of "champions"[edit]
At the end of the 1899 season, in the process of naming his own "champion player", the football correspondent for The Argus, Reginald Wilmot ("Old Boy"), selected a team of the best players of the 1899 VFL competition:
- Backs: Maurie Collins (Essendon), Bill Proudfoot (Collingwood), Peter Burns (Geelong);
- Halfbacks: Pat Hickey (Fitzroy), George Davidson (South Melbourne), Alf Wood (Melbourne);
- Centres: Fred Leach (Collingwood), Firth McCallum (Geelong), Harry Wright (Essendon);
- Wings: Charlie Pannam (Collingwood), Eddie Drohan (Fitzroy), Herb Howson (South Melbourne);
- Forwards: Bill Jackson (Essendon), Eddy James (Geelong), Charlie Colgan (South Melbourne);
- Ruck: Mick Pleass (South Melbourne), Frank Hailwood (Collingwood), Joe McShane (Geelong);
- Rovers: Dick Condon (Collingwood), Bill McSpeerin (Fitzroy), Teddy Rankin (Geelong).
From those he considered to be the three best players — that is, Condon, Hickey, and Pleass — Wilmot selected Pat Hickey as his "champion player" of the season. [4]
Death[edit]
He died at a private hospital in East Melbourne, Victoria on 16 November 1945.[5]
Notes[edit]
- ^ Holmesby & Main (2014), p. 968.
- ^ For instance, The (Melbourne) Herald, 28 July 1899.
- ^ "1898 - The League v. Ballarat". The Argus (Melbourne, Vic). 1 August 1898. p. 7. Retrieved 12 May 2024.
- ^ "Old Boy" (18 September 1899). "1899 - Football: A Review of the Season". Trove Newspapers. The Argus (Melbourne, Vic). p. 6. Retrieved 12 May 2024.
- ^ Deaths: Wood, The Age, (Saturday, 17 November 1945 ), p. 11.
References[edit]
- Holmesby, Russell; Main, Jim (2014). The Encyclopedia of AFL Footballers: every AFL/VFL player since 1897 (10th ed.). Seaford, Victoria: BAS Publishing. ISBN 978-1-921496-32-5.
- Pennings, Mark (2016), Origins of Australian Football: Victoria's early History: Volume 4: Tough Times: Victorian Football loses its Way, 1891 to 1896, Brunswick, Victoria: Grumpy Monks Publishing. ISBN 978-0-646-93604-8
External links[edit]
- Alf Wood's playing statistics from AFL Tables
- Alf Wood at AustralianFootball.com
- Alf Wood, at Demonwiki.
- Alf. Wood, at Blueseum.
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