Albert Anderson (26 August 1894 – 20 November 1980) was an Australian rules footballer who played for the St Kilda Football Club and Richmond Football Club in the

Victorian Football League The Victorian Football League (VFL) is an Australian rules football league in Australia serving as one of the second-tier regional semi-professional competitions which sit underneath the fully professional Australian Football League (AFL). It ...

(VFL).

Family

One of the ten children of John Anderson (1846-1915), and Georgina Anderson (1854-1922), née Hacon, Albert Anderson was born at

Wagga Wagga Wagga Wagga (; informally called Wagga) is a major regional city in the Riverina region of New South Wales, Australia. Straddling the Murrumbidgee River, with an urban population of more than 56,000 as of June 2018, Wagga Wagga is the state's la ...

, New South Wales on 26 August 1894.

Military service

He enlisted in the First AIF on 20 April 1916 and served overseas in France, returning to Australia in 1919.

Football

::"Albert was a strongly built, versatile player who could play in the ruck and as a ruck-rover or centre-half-forward." Anderson played for

Mangoplah Mangoplah is a town approximately south of Wagga Wagga in the Riverina region of New South Wales, Australia. At the 2016 census, Mangoplah had a population of 309. The name of the town is believed to mean "Kooris singing" in the Wiradjuri ab ...

from 1919 to 1922, including their 1919 premiership, then with Royal Stars in the 1923 Wagga United Football Association Grand Final that was won by the Federals, prior to playing with St. Kilda in 1924. In 1925, Anderson spent the season with Hume Weir FC in the

Ovens & Murray Football League The Ovens and Murray Football Netball League (O&MFNL) is an Australian rules football and netball competition containing ten clubs based in north-eastern Victoria, the southern Riverina region of New South Wales and the Ovens and Murray ar ...

, with former Mangoplah & St. Kilda teammate

Tim Archer Thomas Timothy Archer (13 February 1897 – 24 September 1990) was an Australian rules footballer who played with St Kilda in the Victorian Football League (VFL). In 1925, Archer was appointed as coach of the Hume Weir Football Club in the O ...

, who was the coach of Hume Weir in 1925., Hume Weir lost the 1925 grand final to

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. Anderson then returned to the VFL, playing 4 senior games and 7 reserve games with Richmond in the 1926 season. In late April 1927, Anderson was granted a permit by from Richmond to the

Albury Football Club The Albury Football Club, nicknamed the ''Tigers'', is an Australian rules football and netball club based in Albury, a major regional city in New South Wales. Albury football and netball squads compete in the Ovens & Murray Football League. C ...

in the

. He then coached

Corowa Football Club The Corowa Football Club, nicknamed the Spiders, was an Australian rules football club based in Corowa, New South Wales, that competed in the Ovens & Murray Football League. The club merged with the Wahgunyah Football Club on several occasions d ...

in the

in 1928 and 1929. Anderson subsequently transferred to the

Hampden Football League The Hampden Football Netball League is an Australian rules football and netball league based in South-Western Victoria, with clubs located in towns along or near the Princes Highway from Camperdown to Portland. The league is a major country ...

to play with

Warrnambool Football Club The Warrnambool Football Netball Club, nicknamed the ''Blues'', is an Australian rules football and netball club based in the city of the same name. Warrnambool teams compete in the Hampden Football Netball League, where the football squad has ...

from 1934 to 1936, playing in the 1935 premiership and leading them into the 1936 grand final as captain / coach, that they lost to Mortlake. Anderson then stayed in Warrnambool, working for the Shell Petrol Company.

Notes

References

* Hogan P., ''The Tigers Of Old'', Richmond FC, (Melbourne), 1996. *
First World War Nominal Roll: Driver Albert Anderson (28084), collection of the ''Australian War Memorial''.First World War Embarkation Roll: Driver Albert Anderson (28084), collection of the ''Australian War Memorial''.

First World War Service Record: Driver Albert Anderson (28084), ''National Archives of Australia''.

External links

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1928 - O&MFL Runners Up: St. Patrick's FC team photo
{{DEFAULTSORT:Anderson, Alby 1894 births 1980 deaths Australian rules footballers from New South Wales St Kilda Football Club players Richmond Football Club players Australian military personnel of World War I