Talk:George Coulthard

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George Coulthard was the colonial equivalent of a Brownlow medallist. i.e. the best and fairest footballer in the most elite Aussie Rules competition. To have played Test cricket as well, is wonderful. And then to have been a Test Cricket umpire, and to have done so, before he made his Test playing debut is amazing. I suppose it was a thing a person could do in those times, which would be absolutely impossible today, more's the pity!

Football career
I added details of his football career which were sadly lacking. I inserted an AFL Footballer Infobox and moved the pic to that Infobox. My rationale being that the pic is actually taken from a poster of top Victorian footballers of 1884 (strange given his career finished in 1882!), and I felt the pic belonged with the sport it represented. Having moved the pic I then moved the football Infobox to the top so the pic is prominent. Hope noone is offended. Cheers. Pudgey 11:30, 13 March 2007 (UTC)

I have corrected the match details for which Coulthard umpired in white for teh first time and added the actual date. Davidflegg (talk) 00:59, 18 December 2007 (UTC)

The claim that he won Champion Of The Colony award is disputed as there is no evidence that such an award was ever given to Victorian footballers. RossRSmith (talk) 11:31, 25 April 2008 (UTC)