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The straw that stirs the drink
Official AFL stats show a Jimmy Nolan playing for Melbourne in Round 5, 1911
http://stats.afl.com.au/public/stat...und/1911/11/player_roundbyround_11_1911.shtml
However Jimmy Nolan doesn't show up in the Encyclopedia of AFL Footballers, and in the match report of the game (http://trove.nla.gov.au/ndp/del/article/10905711/366194) the three other Melbourne debutantes are mentioned by name but there is no mention of a Jimmy Nolan (or anybody named Nolan for that matter).
Could this be an error in official league records, or could Bernie Nolan (http://demonwiki.org/tiki-index.php?page=Bernie Nolan) who is shown as playing every year from 1904 to 1912 except 1911 have played under a different name?
To complicate the matters an old edition of the MFC magazine which had a list of related players showed him as Bernie's cousin. However there are no other mentions of him anywhere that I can find.
I'm interested in solving this mystery as it would have an effect on the MFC heritage numbers, but also wondering how many other 'one game players' were actually mistaken names or other players appearing under false names. There are certainly some suggestions in MFC match reports of the late 1890's and early 1900's that players were playing under assumed names.
http://stats.afl.com.au/public/stat...und/1911/11/player_roundbyround_11_1911.shtml
However Jimmy Nolan doesn't show up in the Encyclopedia of AFL Footballers, and in the match report of the game (http://trove.nla.gov.au/ndp/del/article/10905711/366194) the three other Melbourne debutantes are mentioned by name but there is no mention of a Jimmy Nolan (or anybody named Nolan for that matter).
Could this be an error in official league records, or could Bernie Nolan (http://demonwiki.org/tiki-index.php?page=Bernie Nolan) who is shown as playing every year from 1904 to 1912 except 1911 have played under a different name?
To complicate the matters an old edition of the MFC magazine which had a list of related players showed him as Bernie's cousin. However there are no other mentions of him anywhere that I can find.
I'm interested in solving this mystery as it would have an effect on the MFC heritage numbers, but also wondering how many other 'one game players' were actually mistaken names or other players appearing under false names. There are certainly some suggestions in MFC match reports of the late 1890's and early 1900's that players were playing under assumed names.