George Davidson | |||
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Personal information | |||
Full name | George Davidson | ||
Date of birth | 13 June 1872 | ||
Place of birth | Bealiba, Victoria | ||
Date of death | 25 August 1945 | (aged 73)||
Place of death | Corryong, Victoria | ||
Playing career1 | |||
Years | Club | Games (Goals) | |
1897–1900 | South Melbourne | 37 (0) | |
1 Playing statistics correct to the end of 1900. | |||
Sources: AFL Tables, AustralianFootball.com |
George Davidson (13 June 1872 – 25 August 1945) was an Australian rules footballer who played with Collingwood in the Victorian Football Association and South Melbourne in the Victorian Football League (VFL).[1] His football career ended prematurely when he broke his leg in 1900.
The eighth of the ten children of David Davidson (1824-1895),[2][3] and Hellen Davidson (1828-1887), née Forrest,[4] George Davidson was born at Bealiba, Victoria, on 13 June 1872.
He married Alice Margaret Graves (1879-1962), at Rutherglen, Victoria, on 25 October 1904.[5] They had four children.
Recruited from Mission Ramblers in 1894,[6] he played in 13 games (kicked 2 goals) for Collingwood in the VFA over the team's last three seasons in the VFA competition (1894-1896).[7]
He played his first match for South Melbourne, against Geelong, at the Lake Oval on 24 July 1897.[8]
In his second-last match, playing on the half-back flank, he was one of the best players in the South Melbourne 1899 Grand Final team that lost to Fitzroy by one point: 3.8 (26) to 3.9 (27).[9]
In the final quarter of his last match for South Melbourne, against Essendon on 5 May 1900 — he had been appointed the team's captain for the 1900 season[10] — he fell and broke his leg.[11] He did not play VFL football again.[12][13]
At the end of the 1899 season, in the process of naming his own "champion player", Reginald Wilmot, the football correspondent for The Argus (i.e., "Old Boy"), selected a team of the best players of the 1899 VFL competition:[14]
He died (suddenly) at Corryong, Victoria on 25 August 1945.[15][16][17]