Alfred Ernest Tredinnick (16 June 1873 – 19 May 1910) was an
Australian rules footballer who played for the
Melbourne 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).
Tredinnick played football for
Rovers Football Club in the Western Australian Football Association in 1898 before moving to the Goldfields Football Association and playing for Kalgoorlie from 1899 to 1900, where he was an all-round sportsman who also played cricket and ran competitively as a
sprinter.
He was an employee of the
Western Australian Bank
The Western Australian Bank was a bank operating in Western Australia from 1841 to 1927.
It was formed amidst the aftermath of the sale of the first Bank of Western Australia (1837-1841), which had sold out to the Bank of Australasia, as pro ...
while living in
Kalgoorlie, which meant he had to run under the assumed name "Alf Hall".
He returned to Victoria in 1901 and played seven games for Melbourne in the Victorian Football League during that season. In 1902, he won the
Stawell Gift, Australia's most prestigious running race.
Tredinnick died after a short illness in 1910; his obituary remembered him as "one of the best footballers and athletes in the Castlemaine district".
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1873 births
Australian rules footballers from Western Australia
Rovers Football Club players
Goldfields Football League players
Melbourne Football Club players
Stawell Gift winners
Australian male sprinters
1910 deaths
Australian rules footballers from Victoria (Australia)
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