Ernie Hug
Personal information
Full name Ernie Hug
Date of birth (1944-03-04)4 March 1944
Date of death 17 June 1978(1978-06-17) (aged 34)
Place of death Heyfield, Victoria
Original team(s) St Pat's
Height 193 cm (6 ft 4 in)
Weight 87 kg (192 lb)
Position(s) Ruck / Defence
Playing career1
Years Club Games (Goals)
1963–65, 1967–70 Collingwood 59 (5)
1971 South Melbourne 15 (0)
Total 74 (5)
1 Playing statistics correct to the end of 1971.
Sources: AFL Tables, AustralianFootball.com

Ernie Hug (4 March 1944 – 17 June 1978) was a former Australian rules footballer who played with Collingwood and South Melbourne in the Victorian Football League (VFL).[1]

Hug's son, Ernie, Jr. was drafted to Collingwood under the father-son rule in 1989 but failed to play a senior match for Collingwood. His other son Peter, died in 1999 from injuries sustained during a football match.[2]

Hug died in 1978 after a tractor accident on his cattle farm in Heyfield, Victoria.[3]

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. 415. ISBN 978-1-921496-32-5.
  2. ^ Daffey, Paul (22 November 2003). "A bitter draft, without a debut".
  3. ^ "Football Loses Four Identities". Football Record (Round 12): 13. 24 June 1978.

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1991 AFL mid-season draft
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