Allan Edward Geddes (4 November 1903 – 12 December 1987) was an
Australian rules football
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player who played between 1922 and 1924 in the VFA for the
Williamstown Football Club
The Williamstown Football Club, nicknamed The Seagulls, is an Australian rules football club based in Melbourne. The club currently competes in the men's and women's Victorian Football League and VFLW competitions.
History
The Williamstown Fo ...
, and in the
VFL between 1925 and 1935 for the
Richmond Football Club
The Richmond Football Club, nicknamed the Tigers, is an Australian rules football team playing in the Australian Football League (AFL). Between its inception in the Melbourne suburb of Richmond in 1885 and 1907, the club competed in the Victo ...
.
VFA
He played with the VFA club Williamstown from 1922 to 1924, playing 51 games and scoring seven goals.
He also played one game for a combined VFA team that played against a
Perth Football Club
The Perth Football Club, nicknamed the Demons, is an Australian rules football club based in Lathlain, Western Australia, currently playing in the West Australian Football League (WAFL).
Representing the south-east area of the Perth metropol ...
team, at the
North Melbourne Cricket Ground on 2 August 1924; In a low scoring match, played in appalling conditions, the Perth team won by two points: 3.8 (26) to 3.6 (24). Geddes was one of Victoria's best players.
VFL (Firsts)
He was cleared from Williamstown to Richmond on 1 May 1925, and played on the wing in his first match for Richmond in
round one of the 1925 season, against the
Hawthorn Football Club
The Hawthorn Football Club, nicknamed the Hawks, is a professional Australian rules football club based in Mulgrave, Victoria, that competes in the Australian Football League (AFL). The club was founded in 1902 in the inner-east suburb of Hawt ...
, at
Glenferrie Oval
Glenferrie Oval is an Australian rules football stadium located in Hawthorn, a suburb of Melbourne, Victoria, Australia.
It is the historic home of, and is synonymous with, the Hawthorn Football Club, who played there from 1903 and as a VFL/AFL ...
on 2 May 1925 (the Hawthorn Club's first ever VFL match). Geddes played well in a team that beat Hawthorn 11.11 (77) to (5.9 (39).
Brownlow Medal
He was equal second, along with Geelong's
Carji Greeves
Edward Goderich "Carji" Greeves, Junior (1 November 1903 – 15 April 1963) was an Australian rules footballer who played for the Geelong Football Club in the Victorian Football League (VFL), now known as the Australian Football League (AFL). H ...
and Melbourne's
Bob Johnson, to
Ivor Warne-Smith
Ivor Warne-Smith (29 October 1897 – 4 March 1960), was an Australian footballer, who played for the Melbourne Football Club in the Victorian Football League and for the Latrobe Football Club in the North-Western Football Union in Tasmania. ...
in the 1926 Brownlow Medal.
VFL (Seconds)
Richmond
He played 45 games with the Richmond Second XVIII between 1936 and 1938. He was the team's captain/coach in 1936 and 1937, and was the team's coach in 1938 (although still playing, and still the team's coach, he was no longer its captain).
Carlton
He was the non-playing Coach of the
Carlton
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Seconds in 1939.
After football
He was appointed as a selector for Richmond in 1940.
Football, ''The Argus'', (Wednesday, 21 February 1940), p.21.
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See also
* 1927 Melbourne Carnival
The 1927 Melbourne Carnival was the sixth Australian National Football Carnival: an Australian rules football interstate competition.
New South Wales caused the biggest upset of the carnival when they defeated Tasmania by three points and, also, ...
Footnotes
References
* Hogan P: ''The Tigers Of Old'', Richmond FC, Melbourne 1996.
External links
*
Allan Geddes: ''Australianfotball.com''.
Richmond Football Club - Hall of Fame
''Boyles Football Photos'': Allan Geddes.
''The VFA Project'': Alan (sic) Geddes.
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1903 births
1987 deaths
Australian rules footballers from Melbourne
Australian Rules footballers: place kick exponents
Richmond Football Club players
Richmond Football Club Premiership players
Williamstown Football Club players
Two-time VFL/AFL Premiership players
People from North Melbourne