List of VFL debuts in 1904
Appearance
A total of 116 Australian rules footballers made their senior debut for one of the eight Victorian Football League (VFL) clubs in 1904; eighteen of which had previously played for a different VFL club.
Summary
Club | VFL debuts | Change of club |
---|---|---|
Carlton | 11 | 4 |
Collingwood | 12 | – |
Essendon | 7 | 2 |
Fitzroy | 9 | 1 |
Geelong | 14 | 1 |
Melbourne | 9 | 4 |
South Melbourne | 18 | 3 |
St Kilda | 18 | 3 |
Total | 98 | 18 |
Debuts
Name | Club | Age at debut | Round debuted | Games | Goals | Notes |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Billy Payne | Carlton | 22 years, 253 days | 1[1] | 127 | 0 | |
Ted Kennedy | Carlton | 26 years, 243 days | 1[2] | 106 | 13 | Brother of James Kennedy. Previously played for Essendon. |
Bob Boyle | Carlton | 27 years, 173 days | 4[3] | 36 | 4 | |
Harry Newbound | Carlton | 22 years, 232 days | 2[4] | 18 | 2 | Previously played for Collingwood. |
Eddie Prescott | Carlton | 23 years, 199 days | 8[5] | 11 | 9 | |
Percy Pitt | Carlton | 20 years, 249 days | 2[6] | 8 | 11 | |
Pat Pelly | Carlton | 26 years, 198 days | 4[7] | 8 | 0 | |
Henry Whight | Carlton | 22 years, 64 days | 2[8] | 7 | 0 | |
Arthur Ryan | Carlton | 23 years, 219 days | 1[9] | 4 | 0 | |
Rupe Bradley | Carlton | 3[10] | 4 | 4 | ||
Albert Gourlay | Carlton | 22 years, 330 days | 3[11] | 3 | 0 | Previously played for Melbourne. |
Jim Cullen | Carlton | 25 years, 333 days | 1[12] | 1 | 0 | Previously played for South Melbourne and Essendon. |
Jimmy Gaynor | Carlton | 27 years, 11 days | 4[13] | 1 | 0 | |
Sam Marron | Carlton | 20 years, 118 days | 5[14] | 1 | 0 | |
Ernie Ashton | Carlton | 21 years, 44 days | 15[15] | 1 | 0 | |
Robert Nash | Collingwood | 20 years, 85 days | 11[16] | 88 | 14 | Father of Laurie Nash. |
Bob Strachan | Collingwood | 17 years, 352 days | 1[17] | 52 | 27 | |
Don Fraser | Collingwood | 21 years, 269 days | 5[18] | 31 | 0 | |
Bill Homan | Collingwood | 23 years, 134 days | 1[19] | 12 | 8 | |
Grahame McConechy | Collingwood | 23 years, 336 days | 1[20] | 7 | 6 | |
Ivor Lawson | Collingwood | 21 years, 19 days | 1[21] | 7 | 2 | |
Harry Neil | Collingwood | 21 years, 286 days | 8[22] | 4 | 0 | |
Allan Belcher | Collingwood | 19 years, 227 days | 11[23] | 4 | 1 | Brother of Vic Belcher. |
Bob Burns | Collingwood | 1[24] | 2 | 0 | ||
Wally Sykes | Collingwood | 23 years, 5 days | 1[25] | 2 | 0 | |
Darcy McDougall | Collingwood | 18 years, 35 days | 3[26] | 1 | 0 | |
Les Abbott | Collingwood | 19 years, 16 days | 8[27] | 1 | 0 | |
Bill Busbridge | Essendon | 19 years, 98 days | 1[28] | 103 | 32 | |
Arthur Legge | Essendon | 22 years, 229 days | 3[29] | 69 | 30 | |
Bert Laxton | Essendon | 24 years, 266 days | 2[30] | 44 | 3 | |
Fred Robinson | Essendon | 19 years, 365 days | 2[31] | 35 | 0 | Brother of Alex, Bill and Gordon Robinson. |
Jim Phipps | Essendon | 9[32] | 22 | 0 | ||
Alex Robinson | Essendon | 17 years, 262 days | 1[33] | 9 | 5 | Brother of Bill, Fred and Gordon Robinson and father of Alexander and George Robnson. Played first-class cricket for Western Australia. |
Alf Swift | Essendon | 32 years, 290 days | 3[34] | 7 | 2 | |
Mick Pleass | Essendon | 29 years, 205 days | 5[35] | 4 | 0 | Previously played for South Melbourne. |
Norman Belcher | Essendon | 24 years, 302 days | 1[36] | 2 | 0 | Previously played for Geelong. |
Percy Sheehan | Fitzroy | 20 years, 307 days | 1[37] | 58 | 11 | |
Joe Johnson | Fitzroy | 21 years, 109 days | 1[38] | 55 | 15 | First known Indigenous Australian to play in the Victorian Football League. |
Edgar Kneen | Fitzroy | 21 years, 241 days | 1[39] | 48 | 33 | |
Gilbert Barker | Fitzroy | 21 years, 310 days | 5[40] | 42 | 4 | |
Jack McDonough | Fitzroy | 24 years, 314 days | 5[41] | 29 | 6 | Previously played for South Melbourne. |
Les Sharp | Fitzroy | 18 years, 248 days | 5[42] | 23 | 12 | |
Paddy Shea | Fitzroy | 18 years, 58 days | 2[43] | 13 | 8 | Also played first-class cricket for Victoria. |
Bill Kelly | Fitzroy | 21 years, 173 days | 2[44] | 7 | 0 | |
Hedley Tomkins | Fitzroy | 18 years, 338 days | 2[45] | 4 | 0 | |
Fred Lethbridge | Fitzroy | 20 years, 111 days | 3[46] | 3 | 1 | |
Dick Grigg | Geelong | 18 years, 334 days | 1[47] | 194 | 64 | |
George Doull | Geelong | 24 years, 190 days | 1[48] | 96 | 16 | |
Tom Rankin | Geelong | 23 years, 4 days | 1[49] | 47 | 12 | |
Jim Munday | Geelong | 16 years, 340 days | 7[50] | 33 | 1 | |
Jack Knell | Geelong | 25 years, 358 days | 9[51] | 32 | 12 | |
Mick Holligan | Geelong | 22 years, 339 days | 15[52] | 6 | 3 | |
Henry Molan | Geelong | 25 years, 34 days | 2[53] | 5 | 0 | |
Bert Clarke | Geelong | 20 years, 69 days | 6[54] | 4 | 3 | |
Bill Burns | Geelong | 20 years, 1 days | 15[55] | 2 | 0 | |
Reg Digby | Geelong | 25 years, 212 days | 15[56] | 2 | 1 | |
Joe Fox | Geelong | 26 years, 347 days | 15[57] | 2 | 0 | Previously played for South Melbourne. |
Jimmy Roberts | Geelong | 21 years, 21 days | 1[58] | 1 | 0 | |
George Horman | Geelong | 20 years, 254 days | 7[59] | 1 | 0 | |
Peter McMurrich | Geelong | 18 years, 72 days | 12[60] | 1 | 0 | |
Henry Cheeseman | Geelong | 28 years, 258 days | 17[61] | 1 | 1 | |
Joe Pearce | Melbourne | 19 years, 107 days | 2[62] | 152 | 5 | One of the first VFL footballers killed in the First World War. |
Bernie Nolan | Melbourne | 20 years, 197 days | 1[63] | 84 | 10 | |
Hugh Purse | Melbourne | 22 years, 218 days | 1[64] | 84 | 26 | |
Jim Conquest | Melbourne | 23 years, 343 days | 1[65] | 54 | 22 | |
Ted Leach | Melbourne | 21 years, 13 days | 1[66] | 23 | 9 | Previously played for Collingwood. |
Mark Gardner | Melbourne | 19 years, 288 days | 8[67] | 14 | 1 | |
Roy Adam | Melbourne | 21 years, 87 days | 6[68] | 12 | 3 | Previously played for St Kilda. |
Ernie Vollugi | Melbourne | 25 years, 122 days | 1[69] | 4 | 0 | |
Henri Jeanneret | Melbourne | 26 years, 134 days | 2[70] | 4 | 0 | Previously played for South Melbourne. |
Lionel Smale | Melbourne | 25 years, 164 days | 1[71] | 2 | 0 | |
Tom Watson | Melbourne | 30 years, 127 days | 1[72] | 1 | 0 | Previously played for Carlton. |
Alec Woods | Melbourne | 2[73] | 1 | 0 | ||
Ted Wade | Melbourne | 19 years, 151 days | 3[74] | 1 | 0 | |
Bill Strang | South Melbourne | 20 years, 276 days | 10[75] | 69 | 80 | Father of Allan, Colin, Doug and Gordon Strang, and grandfather of Geoff Strang. |
Dick McCabe | South Melbourne | 26 years, 327 days | 1[76] | 51 | 0 | Previously played for Fitzroy and St Kilda. |
Harry Gibson | South Melbourne | 25 years, 132 days | 1[77] | 41 | 11 | |
Charles Clements | South Melbourne | 22 years, 54 days | 2[78] | 32 | 68 | |
Bert Sharpe | South Melbourne | 26 years, 15 days | 3[79] | 17 | 17 | Previously played for Fitzroy. |
Bill Griffiths | South Melbourne | 25 years, 60 days | 5[80] | 9 | 0 | |
Jim Schellnack | South Melbourne | 5[81] | 7 | 6 | ||
John Catarinich | South Melbourne | 21 years, 274 days | 14[82] | 7 | 0 | |
Dave McColl | South Melbourne | 1[83] | 5 | 0 | ||
Henry Morley Kidgell | South Melbourne | 23 years, 113 days | 11[84] | 5 | 0 | |
Les Weate | South Melbourne | 19 years, 106 days | 9[85] | 4 | 1 | |
Syd Wright | South Melbourne | 21 years, 340 days | 15[86] | 3 | 0 | |
Herb Bruton | South Melbourne | 1[87] | 2 | 0 | ||
Artie Percy | South Melbourne | 24 years, 137 days | 15[88] | 2 | 0 | |
Leslie Hope | South Melbourne | 19 years, 195 days | 1[89] | 1 | 0 | |
Edmund Johnson | South Melbourne | 1[90] | 1 | 0 | ||
Robert Daykin | South Melbourne | 23 years, 183 days | 9[91] | 1 | 0 | |
Tom Hawkins | South Melbourne | 13[92] | 1 | 0 | ||
Peter McCann | South Melbourne | 22 years, 56 days | 15[93] | 1 | 0 | |
Jim Darcy | South Melbourne | 17[94] | 1 | 0 | Previously played for Essendon. | |
Con Hogan | South Melbourne | 17[95] | 1 | 0 | ||
Wally Scott | St Kilda | 19 years, 363 days | 8[96] | 108 | 4 | |
Dan Feehan | St Kilda | 24 years, 90 days | 1[97] | 85 | 9 | |
Jack Julian | St Kilda | 19 years, 202 days | 17[98] | 67 | 0 | |
Bill Mahoney | St Kilda | 19 years, 141 days | 03[99] | 17 | 9 | Previously played for Geelong. |
Jim King | St Kilda | 30 years, 194 days | 5[100] | 13 | 2 | Previously played for South Melbourne. |
Tommy Ryan | St Kilda | 32 years, 211 days | 1[101] | 11 | 8 | Previously played for Melbourne. |
Jack King | St Kilda | 25 years, 162 days | 8[102] | 8 | 0 | |
John Moloney | St Kilda | 22 years, 195 days | 4[103] | 3 | 0 | |
Alec Moffatt | St Kilda | 25 years, 213 days | 15[104] | 3 | 0 | |
Fred Whelpton | St Kilda | 19 years, 071 days | 3[105] | 2 | 0 | |
Jim Hallahan, Sr. | St Kilda | 26 years, 035 days | 10[106] | 2 | 0 | Father of Jim Hallahan, Jr. and Tom Hallahan. |
Frank Kenny | St Kilda | 26 years, 011 days | 15[107] | 2 | 0 | |
Jim Marshall | St Kilda | 1[108] | 1 | 0 | ||
David Starke | St Kilda | 24 years, 242 days | 2[109] | 1 | 0 | |
Des Griffin | St Kilda | 22 years, 252 days | 12[110] | 1 | 0 | |
Dan Scullion | St Kilda | 18 years, 71 days | 14[111] | 1 | 0 | |
Ivor Evans | St Kilda | 16[112] | 1 | 0 | ||
Gordon Downes | St Kilda | 26 years, 72 days | 17[113] | 1 | 0 | |
Lewis Jones | St Kilda | 17 years, 311 days | 17[114] | 1 | 0 | |
Joe Marchant | St Kilda | 17[115] | 1 | 0 | ||
Jimmy Sheehan | St Kilda | 17[116] | 1 | 2 |
References
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- ^ "Sam Marron statistics". AFL Tables. Retrieved 19 March 2013.
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- ^ "Dave McColl statistics". AFL Tables. Retrieved 15 March 2013.
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