Alf Wood | |||
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Personal information | |||
Full name | Alfred Mathew Wood | ||
Date of birth | 15 February 1875 | ||
Place of birth | Glenlyon, Victoria | ||
Date of death | 16 November 1945 | (aged 70)||
Place of death | East Melbourne, Victoria | ||
Original team(s) | Maryborough | ||
Position(s) | Defence | ||
Playing career1 | |||
Years | Club | Games (Goals) | |
1897–1899 | Melbourne | 43 (4) | |
1 Playing statistics correct to the end of 1899. | |||
Sources: AFL Tables, AustralianFootball.com |
Alfred Mathew Wood (15 February 1875 – 16 November 1945) was an Australian rules footballer who played for the Melbourne Football Club in the Victorian Football League (VFL).[1]
On many occasions the press (mistakenly) identified him as "Woods", rather than "Wood".[2]
His first game for Melbourne was on the half-back flank, against South Melbourne, at the Lake Oval, on 8 May 1897, the first round of the first year of the new VFL competition.
Wood played in the VFL team against Ballarat Football League in 1898.[3]
At the end of the 1899 season, in the process of naming his own "champion player", the football correspondent for The Argus, Reginald Wilmot ("Old Boy"), selected a team of the best players of the 1899 VFL competition:
From those he considered to be the three best players — that is, Condon, Hickey, and Pleass — he selected Pat Hickey as his "champion player" of the season. [4]
He died at a private hospital in East Melbourne, Victoria on 16 November 1945.[5]