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Harry Purdy (footballer, born 1898)

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Harry Purdy
Personal information
Full name Harry Purdy
Date of birth (1898-03-18)18 March 1898
Date of death 7 April 1978(1978-04-07) (aged 80)
Height / weight 168 cm / 62 kg
Sources: AFL Tables, AustralianFootball.com

Harry Purdy (18 March 1898 – 7 April 1978) was an Australian rules footballer who played with South Melbourne in the Victorian Football League (VFL). [1]

His father, also named Harry Purdy, was a renowned footballer for South Melbourne in the 1890s.[2]

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. 723. ISBN 978-1-921496-32-5.
  2. ^ "Football". Record. Vol. XXII, , no. 18. Victoria, Australia. 5 May 1917. p. 2. Retrieved 13 September 2016 – via National Library of Australia.{{cite news}}: CS1 maint: extra punctuation (link)