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Alf Wood (Australian footballer)

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Alf Wood
Personal information
Full name Alfred Mathew Wood
Date of birth (1875-02-15)15 February 1875
Place of birth Glenlyon, Victoria
Date of death 16 November 1945(1945-11-16) (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)
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

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On many occasions the press (mistakenly) identified him as "Woods", rather than "Wood".[2]

Melbourne (VFL)

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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

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Wood played in the VFL team against Ballarat Football League in 1898.[3]

1899 team of "champions"

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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:

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

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He died at a private hospital in East Melbourne, Victoria on 16 November 1945.[5]

Notes

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  1. ^ Holmesby & Main (2014), p. 968.
  2. ^ For instance, The (Melbourne) Herald, 28 July 1899.
  3. ^ "1898 - The League v. Ballarat". The Argus (Melbourne, Vic). 1 August 1898. p. 7. Retrieved 12 May 2024.
  4. ^ "Old Boy" (18 September 1899). "1899 - Football: A Review of the Season". Trove Newspapers. The Argus (Melbourne, Vic). p. 6. Retrieved 12 May 2024.
  5. ^ Deaths: Wood, The Age, (Saturday, 17 November 1945 ), p. 11.

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