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Billy Cole (footballer)

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Billy Cole
Personal information
Full name Billy Cole
Date of birth (1909-08-09)9 August 1909
Date of death 24 August 1958(1958-08-24) (aged 49)
Original team(s) Northcote
Height 170 cm (5 ft 7 in)
Weight 68 kg (150 lb)
Position(s) Wing / Half Forward
Playing career1
Years Club Games (Goals)
1935–37 St Kilda 29 (19)
1 Playing statistics correct to the end of 1937.
Sources: AFL Tables, AustralianFootball.com

Billy Cole (9 August 1909 – 24 August 1958) was an Australian rules footballer who played with St Kilda in the Victorian Football League (VFL).[1]

Cole began his senior career in the Victorian Football Association with the Northcote Football Club, where he played 101 games.[2] He then joined VFL club St Kilda in 1935, and played 29 games in three years.

Notes

  1. ^ Holmesby, Russell; Main, Jim (2014). The Encyclopedia of AFL Footballers: every AFL/VFL player since 1897 (10th ed.). Seaford, Victoria: BAS Publishing. p. 163. ISBN 978-1-921496-32-5.
  2. ^ Marc Fiddian (2003), The Best of Football Trivia, Hastings, VIC: Galaxy Print and Design, p. 45