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Bluey (nickname)
Bluey is Australian slang for a redhead (usually a man), derived from the large number of redheaded Irish immigrants in early colonial Australia who gained a reputation as being heavy drinkers and fighters who had to survive despite being beaten black and blue in the process. As a nickname, Bluey may refer to: *Bluey Adams (1935–2019), former Australian rules football player * Derek Arnold (born 1941), New Zealand former rugby union player *David Bairstow (1951–1998), English cricketer * Arthur Bluethenthal (1891–1918), American college football player and World War I pilot *Gregory Brazel (born 1954), Australian serial killer *Alex Burdon (1879–1943), pioneer Australian rugby league and rugby union footballer *Greg Mackey (born 1961), Australian former rugby league footballer * Jean-Paul Maunick (born 1957), British musician, founder of the band Incognito *Brian McClennan (born 1962), New Zealand former rugby league footballer and coach *Bob McClure (footballer) (1925&ndash ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nickname
A nickname is a substitute for the proper name of a familiar person, place or thing. Commonly used to express affection, a form of endearment, and sometimes amusement, it can also be used to express defamation of character. As a concept, it is distinct from both pseudonym and stage name, and also from a title (for example, City of Fountains), although there may be overlap in these concepts. Etymology The compound word ''ekename'', literally meaning "additional name", was attested as early as 1303. This word was derived from the Old English phrase ''eac'' "also", related to ''eacian'' "to increase". By the 15th century, the misdivision of the syllables of the phrase "an ekename" led to its rephrasing as "a nekename". Though the spelling has changed, the pronunciation and meaning of the word have remained relatively stable ever since. Conventions in various languages English nicknames are generally represented in quotes between the bearer's first and last names (e.g., '' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tim McGrath
Tim McGrath (born 7 October 1970) is a former Australian rules footballer for the North Melbourne Football Club from 1989 to 1991, and the Geelong Football Club from 1992 to 2002, in the Australian Football League (AFL), which was known as the Victorian Football League (VFL) when McGrath made his debut for North Melbourne in 1989. Career VFL career McGrath had a successful career in the VFL Under 19s when he won the Morrish Medal in 1988 as the best player in that competition. That same year under coach Denis Pagan, McGrath, along with future adversary, Wayne Carey, would play in North Melbourne's Under 19s Premiership team. VFL/AFL career McGrath made his VFL/AFL debut for North Melbourne in round nine of the 1989 VFL season, but only managed seven games in his three seasons with the club. He was traded to Geelong before the 1992 AFL season, where he debuted in the first round against . McGrath's first game was unimpressive, as he had found himself playing on Hawthorn's champi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Billy Wilson (Australian Rugby League)
Billy Wilson (30 May 1927 – 25 March 1993) was an Australian professional rugby league footballer who played in the 1940s, 1950s and 1960s. An Australia national and New South Wales state representative front-row forward, he captained the national team in two Tests against New Zealand in 1963 and captained-coached several of his club sides during a record length top-grade career over twenty seasons from 1948 to 1967. Much of his New South Wales Rugby League premiership career was spent with Sydney's St. George club where he was a pivotal member for the first half of that club's 11-year consecutive premiership run from 1956. Billy Wilson won six consecutive premierships with the Dragons between 1956 and 1962. Early career Wilson was a St. George junior, growing up in Blakehurst in Sydney. He was graded for the St. George Dragons in 1948 as a centre/lock. Regularly during his early career Wilson would take up the financial opportunities offered to captain/coach country firs ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bluey Wilkinson
Arthur George "Bluey" Wilkinson (27 August 1911 – 27 July 1940) was an international speedway rider. Wilkinson was Speedway World Champion in 1938 after narrowly missing out on winning the inaugural Championship in 1936. Early life Wilkinson was nicknamed "Bluey" because of his red hair (an Australian custom). At the age of four, Bluey's family moved to Bathurst, New South Wales which he really considered to be his home town. He was working as a butcher boy when speedway first started at the Bathurst Sports Ground in 1928. It was love at first sight for Wilkinson and he promptly gave up a promising rugby league career and invested his savings in a battered old belt driven Rudge. Career On the Rudge, Bluey Wilkinson wasn't a world-beater, but when Sydney and international star rider Lionel Van Praag came to Bathurst he loaned Wilkinson one of his spare bikes. In a battle of future World Champions, Wilkinson defeated Van Praag in a match race and his talent was recognis ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jack Watkins
Jack Cosgrove "Bluey" Watkins (1893-1974) was an Australian rugby league footballer. Career He played , with seven test matches for his country, including the 1921–22 Kangaroo tour of Great Britain. He is listed on the ''Australian Players Register'' as Kangaroo No. 92. Watkins played for just one club in the New South Wales Rugby Football League premiership throughout his career which spanned 14 years, interrupted by the First World War. He played in over 100 matches for the Sydney Roosters, Eastern Suburbs side between 1913 and 1926, winning National Rugby League, Premierships with that club in 1913 and 1923. Watkins also won City Cups with the Easts club in 1914, 1915 and 1916. After enlisting in the First World War, Watkins was chosen to play a series of matches for First Australian Imperial Force, Australian Imperial Forces (AIF) against England. Bluey Watkins died on 13 July 1974, age 82.Sydney Morning Herald - Death Notice- 15/07/1974 Sources * Heads, Ian and Midd ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Keith Truscott
Keith William "Bluey" Truscott, (17 May 1916 – 28 March 1943) was a World War II ace fighter pilot and Australian rules footballer with the Melbourne Football Club. After joining the Royal Australian Air Force in 1940, he became the second-highest-scoring Australian World War II ace, credited with 20 confirmed victories and 5 unconfirmed victories.Dennis et al (2008), p. 535. After completing flying training in Canada, Truscott served in Britain flying Spitfire fighters. He returned to Australia in early 1942 and served in New Guinea, where he fought during the climactic Battle of Milne Bay. He was killed in a joint Australian–US training exercise off the coast of Western Australia in March 1943, aged 26. Early life and sporting career Truscott was born in South Yarra, Victoria, on 17 May 1916, to William Truscott and Maude Truscott (née Powell). He attended Melbourne High School, where he captained the First XI in cricket and First XVIII in Football as well as being ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Steve Southern
Steve Southern (born 29 April 1982) is an Australian former professional rugby league footballer who played as a and forward in the 2000s and 2010s. He previously played for the North Queensland Cowboys and Newcastle Knights in the National Rugby League, and the Wakefield Trinity Wildcats (captain) ( Heritage No. 1310) in the Super League. Playing career Born in Wollongong, New South Wales, Southern played his junior football for Dapto before being signed by the St. George Illawarra Dragons.Steve Southern Signs For Newcastle Knights ''Herald Sun'' In 2004, Southern signed with the |
Ian Shelton (footballer)
Ian Stanley "Bluey" Shelton (24 February 1940 – 17 March 2021), known throughout his career as "Bluey", due to his thatch of red hair, was an Australian rules footballer, who played with Essendon in the Victorian Football League (VFL) during the 1960s. Family The son of Stanley Charles Shelton (1903–1983) and Jean Shelton (died 1978), née Dickens, Ian was born on 24 February 1940. He married Margery Henrietta Elliot on 26 March 1966. He is the nephew of John Thomas "Jack" Shelton (1905–1941), who played for St Kilda and South Melbourne, and the cousin of Bill Shelton, who played with Hawthorn. Ned Kelly As a young lad of 7, his grandfather, Richard Shelton, was saved from drowning in swollen Hughes Creek, Avenel by a young Ned Kelly, aged 10. VFL Footballer Recruited from the Avenel-Longwood Football Club, Shelton was a strong, courageous, and talented footballer, able to kick well with both feet, who played at centre half-back for Essendon for 91 games, in six seas ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Guy McKenna
Guy Lindsay McKenna (born 11 May 1969) is a retired Australian rules football player and the former senior coach of the Gold Coast Football Club in the Australian Football League (AFL). McKenna played 267 games for the West Coast Eagles, including the 1992 and 1994 premiership wins. He captained the club between 1999 and 2000 AFL season. WAFL career Educated at Carine Senior High School and originally from Carine Junior Football Club, McKenna was zoned to in the West Australian Football League (WAFL), where he played 49 games in four seasons from 1985 to 1987 and in 1992, including the Tigers' 1987 premiership. Playing career West Coast Eagles McKenna was recruited by the West Coast Eagles for the 1988 season with a pre-draft selection. He played for the Eagles from 1988 until 2000, notching up 267 games and booting 28 goals. He formed one of the most feared backlines in the AFL, along with John Worsfold, Ashley McIntosh, Glen Jakovich and Michael Brennan and was known for h ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bob McClure (footballer)
Robert Johnstone "Bluey" McClure (5 June 1925 – 17 July 2003) was an Australian rules footballer who played with Essendon Essendon may refer to: Australia *Electoral district of Essendon *Electoral district of Essendon and Flemington *Essendon, Victoria **Essendon railway station **Essendon Airport *Essendon Football Club in the Australian Football League United King ... in the VFL. A ruckman, McClure served in the navy during World War II prior to joining Essendon. He became a key component in a successful Essendon side, winning premierships in 1946, 1949 and 1950. A knee injury forced him to retire during the 1951 season. References External links *Profile at Essendonfc.com [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bluey Adams
Frank Adams (12 June 1935 – 11 August 2019), known as Bluey Adams, was an Australian rules football player, who played in the Victorian Football League (VFL) for the Melbourne Football Club The Melbourne Football Club, nicknamed the Demons, is a professional Australian rules football club that competes in the Australian Football League (AFL), the sport's elite competition. It is based in Melbourne, Victoria, and plays its home g .... Football His prime positions were in the forward pocket, where he was a regular, damaging goal-kicker, and as a rover and a wing-man, where he was able to use his great pace to advantage in the open spaces of the MCG. He was one of the fortunate few Melbourne players to be part of all six premierships the club gained during its ten 'golden years' from 1955 to 1964. Athletics Adams was a national champion professional sprinter. Adams won the 1957, 75 yards/130 yards Gift double at Cobram then a week later won the Lilydale Gift (130 yds) be ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Brian McClennan
Brian "Bluey" McClennan (born 16 February 1962) is a New Zealand former professional rugby league footballer and coach. He was previously the head coach of the New Zealand national team (with whom he won the 2005 Tri-nations) and then England's Leeds Rhinos club (with whom he won the 2008 and 2009 Super League championships). McClennan also coached the Exiles rugby league team, Exiles team in the inaugural International Origin match in 2011 before being appointed head coach of National Rugby League club, the New Zealand Warriors but failing to complete the first season of his contract. McClennan is the son of former St Helens R.F.C., St. Helens coach Mike McClennan. Playing career McClennan started his playing career at Mt Albert Lions, Mt Albert under the guidance of his dad, Mike McClennan, Mike. He played at Stand Off and also kicked goals.Coffey and Wood ''The Kiwis: 100 Years of International Rugby League'' When his dad moved to Northcote Tigers, Northcote in 1989, Brian ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
