George Davidson (footballer)

George Davidson
George Davidson
	Davidson in 1899
Personal information
Full name	George Davidson
Date of birth	13 June 1872
Place of birth	Bealiba, Victoria
Date of death	25 August 1945 (aged 73)
Place of death	Corryong, Victoria
Playing career1
Years	Club
1897–1900	South Melbourne
	1 Playing statistics correct to the end of 1900.
	Sources: AFL Tables, AustralianFootball.com

George Davidson (13 June 1872 – 25 August 1945) was an Australian rules footballer who played with South Melbourne in the Victorian Football League (VFL).^[2]

At the end of the 1899 season, in the process of naming his own "champion player", the football correspondent for The Argus ("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 — he selected Pat Hickey as his "champion player" of the season. ('Old Boy', "Football: A Review of the Season", (Monday, 18 September 1899), p.6).

Notes

^ "Family Notices". The Argus. No. 30, 889. Victoria, Australia. 30 August 1945. p. 2.
^ Holmesby, Russell; Main, Jim (2014). The Encyclopedia of AFL Footballers: every AFL/VFL player since 1897 (10th ed.). Seaford, Victoria: BAS Publishing. p. 209. ISBN 978-1-921496-32-5.

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