Don Seymour (footballer)
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Personal information | |||
Full name | Don Seymour | ||
Date of birth | 16 March 1916 | ||
Date of death | 23 July 1986 | (aged 70)||
Original team(s) | Albury | ||
Height | 170 cm (5 ft 7 in) | ||
Weight | 67 kg (148 lb) | ||
Playing career1 | |||
Years | Club | Games (Goals) | |
1939 | Footscray | 2 (0) | |
1 Playing statistics correct to the end of 1939. | |||
Sources: AFL Tables, AustralianFootball.com |
Don Seymour (16 March 1916 – 23 July 1986) was a former Australian rules footballer who played with Footscray in the Victorian Football League (VFL).[1]
Seymour was recruited from the Albury Football Club in the Ovens & Murray Football League.
Seymour won the Footscray Football Club Reserves Eighteen best and fairest award in 1938 and 1939. [2]
Seymour was also a professional athletic foot-runner who ran in the Stawell Gift. [3]
Seymour also played with the South Sydney Football Club during the war years. [4]
Seymour was a World War Two veteran from 1940 to 1945. [5]
Notes
- ^ Holmesby, Russell; Main, Jim (2014). The Encyclopedia of AFL Footballers: every AFL/VFL player since 1897 (10th ed.). Seaford, Victoria: BAS Publishing. p. 803. ISBN 978-1-921496-32-5.
- ^ "1939 - Footscray FC - Best & Fairest". Trove Newspapers. Border Morning Mail.
- ^ "1941 - Ex Albury footballer for Stawell Gift". Trove Newspapers. Border Morning Mail.
- ^ "1942 - South Sydney FC History". https://www.nswfootballhistory.com.au/great-football-in-sydney-during-wwii/. NSW Football History.
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- ^ Seymour, Donald. "Mr". Department of Veteran Affairs. DVA.
External links
- Don Seymour's playing statistics from AFL Tables
- Don Seymour at AustralianFootball.com