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Discussion Unusual short playing careers
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Every single player who has ever played in the VFL/AFL has a Wikipedia page.
Braeden Campbell doesn't, and he's played just as many games as the mighty Relton Roberts.
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To be fair they are a bit slow on adding the new rookies. Everyone pre-2021 should be on there.
He does have a page, but indeed there are a few 2021 debutants (e.g. Tanner Bruhn, James Rowe) who don't have one yet.
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Wollermann 9 games for essendon
Would be intereseted to see a 30s picture of him (big?)
as only one trove is from Horsham in 1946
Would be intereseted to see a 30s picture of him (big?)
as only one trove is from Horsham in 1946
This should be him in a Dimboola 1930 team photo: Stawell, Premiers of Wimmera football League: Dimboola, Runners Up - Weekly Times (Melbourne, Vic. : 1869 - 1954) - 4 Oct 1930
He doesn't look all that big to me! Very solid, but no bigger all-round than any of the others along the back row.
Australian Football - the same old essendon
According to the game's records he was:
102 kg at that height does seem rather heavy!
I'm sure a lot of people already know about Malcolm Greenslade and Mick Nunan. Both star South Australian footballerts who were called up for National Service back in 1971 (when that was still a thing), posted to Victoria, and so decided to try their luck with Richmond. Greenslade played 2 games, one against St Kilda, where he did this:
and one game against South Melbourne, where he kicked 6 goals.
Mick Nunan also played the game against South, and kicked 3 goals.
Both returned to SA after their National Service stints and and continued their stellar local careers. Nunan later became Fitzroy's last 'appointed' coach (he quit when the Brisbane Bears merger was announced, and assistant Alan McConnell took over for the rest of the year).
Interestingly, there were quite a few VFL players called up for National service (including Kevin Sheedy, Carl Ditterich and Royce Hart), but most were able to use club 'influence' to stay in Melbourne and continue playing the VFL. Very few actually served in Vietnam. Hart was the only one I know of who got posted interstate - to SA. He trained with Glenelg during the week and got a flight back to Melbourne to play each week (he still won the B&F that year - he was good - and Richmond won the flag).
Anyway, after the VFL GF, he was back in Adelaide, and Glenelg worked a fiddle to get him to play in the SANFL Grand Final (which was NOT popular). Glenelg got thrashed by Sturt and BOG with 9 goals for Sturt was - Malcolm Greenslade. (Mick Nunan was also in the Sturt Premiership side).
and one game against South Melbourne, where he kicked 6 goals.
Mick Nunan also played the game against South, and kicked 3 goals.
Both returned to SA after their National Service stints and and continued their stellar local careers. Nunan later became Fitzroy's last 'appointed' coach (he quit when the Brisbane Bears merger was announced, and assistant Alan McConnell took over for the rest of the year).
Interestingly, there were quite a few VFL players called up for National service (including Kevin Sheedy, Carl Ditterich and Royce Hart), but most were able to use club 'influence' to stay in Melbourne and continue playing the VFL. Very few actually served in Vietnam. Hart was the only one I know of who got posted interstate - to SA. He trained with Glenelg during the week and got a flight back to Melbourne to play each week (he still won the B&F that year - he was good - and Richmond won the flag).
Anyway, after the VFL GF, he was back in Adelaide, and Glenelg worked a fiddle to get him to play in the SANFL Grand Final (which was NOT popular). Glenelg got thrashed by Sturt and BOG with 9 goals for Sturt was - Malcolm Greenslade. (Mick Nunan was also in the Sturt Premiership side).
and Brenton Miels
I'm sure a lot of people already know about Malcolm Greenslade and Mick Nunan. Both star South Australian footballerts who were called up for National Service back in 1971 (when that was still a thing), posted to Victoria, and so decided to try their luck with Richmond. Greenslade played 2 games, one against St Kilda, where he did this:
and one game against South Melbourne, where he kicked 6 goals.
Mick Nunan also played the game against South, and kicked 3 goals.
Both returned to SA after their National Service stints and and continued their stellar local careers. Nunan later became Fitzroy's last 'appointed' coach (he quit when the Brisbane Bears merger was announced, and assistant Alan McConnell took over for the rest of the year).
Interestingly, there were quite a few VFL players called up for National service (including Kevin Sheedy, Carl Ditterich and Royce Hart), but most were able to use club 'influence' to stay in Melbourne and continue playing the VFL. Very few actually served in Vietnam. Hart was the only one I know of who got posted interstate - to SA. He trained with Glenelg during the week and got a flight back to Melbourne to play each week (he still won the B&F that year - he was good - and Richmond won the flag).
Anyway, after the VFL GF, he was back in Adelaide, and Glenelg worked a fiddle to get him to play in the SANFL Grand Final (which was NOT popular). Glenelg got thrashed by Sturt and BOG with 9 goals for Sturt was - Malcolm Greenslade. (Mick Nunan was also in the Sturt Premiership side).
Jack Oatey, the famous coach of those Sturt players, did something similar a few decades earlier, playing 5 games for South Melbourne in 1944 (while on WWII service): AFL Tables - Jack Oatey - Stats - Statistics
Jack Sheedy was at sth melbourne at the same time as Oatey
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Gil Langley (away from SA on WW2 service) played four games with Essendon in 1943
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Australian Football - Gil Langley - Player Bio
Not really short, but unusual. Pat Odea in the 1890s played 70 odd games then went to the US. It's unusual because it was him who is the reason for most punting rules in modern gridiron
mianfei
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There were quite a few other well-known footballers from South Australia and Western Australia who played a few games in the VFL during World War II when stationed in Melbourne. Jack Cockburn, who won a Magarey Medal and was a leading player in South Adelaide’s most successful era since 1900, played ten times for Essendon in 1943 and 1944, including the former season’s losing Grand Final. Laurie Cahill, uncle of coaching great John, played seven games for Richmond in 1943, including the winning Grand Final, and triple Claremont premiership star Johnny Compton played three games for Melbourne in 1944. Earlier, West Perth star wingman Stan “Pops” Heal played eight games for Melbourne, including their Grand Final win, in 1941, Marcel “Nugget” Hilsz, a WANFL star with Perth, and future Norwood premiership player Neville Way each played eight games for St. Kilda in 1942, whilst Doug Oliphant, WANFL leading goalkicker as far back as 1931, played seven times for Fitzroy in 1942 when transferred to Melbourne. (Haydn Bunton senior’s two 1942 games with Fitzroy, whom he had left in 1937 after winning three Brownlows, were also due to being stationed in Melbourne.)
Possibly the most famous one-game player in VFL/AFL history, however, was Colin Churchett, who played one remarkable game for South Melbourne in 1944. That was of course the Round 13 game against Geelong at the Junction Oval, where the Swans won by the amazing scoreline of 8-30 (78) to 8-8 (56) — the biggest win with equal goals in VFL/AFL history. Churchett had previously played several games with the South Melbourne Reserves, kicking five goals against Hawthorn in one of them, before his solitary senior appearance at the age of eighteen. In that Geelong game on a very windy day, Churchett did not kick a goal, and I cannot find any records of behinds kicked. Churchett would leave Victoria in the following week, but upon his return to South Australia would become the SANFL’s leading full forward, and the only man to kick 100 goals between 1945 and 1968.
I have never seen a comprehensive list of interstate players (including any from states other than South Australia and Western Australia) who played in the VFL on war service — does anyone know where this might be found as I would be very interested to have such?
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Would you include Nashos? I believe Mick Nunan played on National Service . I thought so
His solitary VFL senior game came while he was on National Service training in Melbourne. The previous week he had played in the Richmond reserves side while fellow Sturt footballer and conscript, Malcolm Greenslade, played in the senior side. The next week they both played in the seniors. Both then returned to the SANFL.
[?]FOR A FORWARD! - [?] Win By Record Number of Minors - Record (Emerald Hill, Vic. : 1881 - 1954) - 5 Aug 1944
"A game of wasted effort" aptly describes South's win over Geelong at Kilda last Saturday, the Red and [?] winning by the almost incredible ...
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Thanks! I was looking for details of this remarkable game! I sometimes joke that the two most notable games ever played at the Junction Oval wereView attachment 1875039
[?]FOR A FORWARD! - [?] Win By Record Number of Minors - Record (Emerald Hill, Vic. : 1881 - 1954) - 5 Aug 1944
"A game of wasted effort" aptly describes South's win over Geelong at Kilda last Saturday, the Red and [?] winning by the almost incredible ...
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Five behinds from five shots is remarkable given that, when back at Glenelg, Churchett became renowned for his accurate kicking. I wonder if that was five behinds from five actual kicks??
I've long wondered what happened with Marc Lock. He was captain of the suns before their AFL debut and appeared to be a good player.
He just seemed to disappear until I saw him playing for Box Hill several years later. It certainly wasn't his fault they got annihilated in his only game at the top level.
