Angelo Congear
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| Personal information | |||
| Full name | Angelo Nicholas Goucar Congear | ||
| Nickname(s) | Congy | ||
| Date of birth | 5 May 1885 | ||
| Place of birth | Glanville, South Australia | ||
| Date of death | 9 August 1986[1][2] | ||
| Original team(s) |
Australs (1902–1906) Semaphore Centrals (1908) | ||
| Position(s) | Rover | ||
| Playing career | |||
| Years | Club | Games (Goals) | |
| 1908–1922 | Port Adelaide | 160 (222)[3] | |
| Representative team honours | |||
| Years | Team | Games (Goals) | |
| 1910–1919 | South Australia | 15 (35)[4] | |
| Career highlights | |||
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| Source: AustralianFootball.com | |||
Angelo Nicholas Goucar Congear (5 May 1885 – 9 August 1986) was an Australian rules footballer who played for the Port Adelaide Football Club in the South Australian National Football League between 1908 and 1922.
Junior football (1902–1908)
Congear started playing football in 1902 with the Australs Football Club. In 1908 he started playing for Semaphore Centrals, an affiliate of the Port Adelaide Football Club who he would debut for later that year.[5]
Port Adelaide (1908–1922)
Due to a lack of definitive records, it is not know how many games he played, but it is claimed that he only missed one game during his fifteen seasons with Port Adelaide[6] and that he played over 200 games, including seven Grand finals.[7] Upon his induction into the Port Adelaide Football Club Hall of Fame he was listed as having played over 150 games.[3]
A reporter for the Daily Herald of Adelaide considered him to be the best player during Port Adelaide's 1914 Championship of Australia victory over Fitzroy.[8]
Reputation
Angelo Congear was considered to be one of the finest rovers in South Australia in his era.[9]
Personal life
The Australian born son of a Greek immigrant from an island in Greece, John Angelo Congear, who lived to be 101 years old.[10]
References
- ^ All Public Member Photos & Scanned Documents results for Congear
- ^ https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:QVMZ-2YJT
- ^ a b Hall of Fame
- ^ Devaney, John. "Angelo Congear". Australian Football.com.
- ^ "Thirteen Seasons". The Daily Herald. Vol. XII, no. 3581. Adelaide. 9 September 1921. p. 7. Retrieved 10 November 2016 – via National Library of Australia.
- ^ "Charity Football". The News. Adelaide. 30 September 1924. p. 3 Edition: Home Edition. Retrieved 26 November 2014 – via National Library of Australia.
- ^ "Thirteen Seasons". Daily Herald. Adelaide. 9 September 1921. p. 7. Retrieved 26 November 2014 – via National Library of Australia.
- ^ "Ports V. Carlton". Daily Herald. Adelaide. 5 October 1914. p. 2. Retrieved 15 July 2015 – via National Library of Australia.
- ^ Rucci, Michelangelo (31 July 2009). "Great game's top recruits".
- ^ "Mr. J. A. Congear Dies, Aged 101". The News. Adelaide. 12 October 1936. p. 7. Retrieved 26 November 2014 – via National Library of Australia.