Archibald William Wilson (25 April 1888 – 7 July 1961) was an
Australian rules football
Australian football, also called Australian rules football or Aussie rules, or more simply football or footy, is a contact sport played between two teams of 18 players on an oval field, often a modified cricket ground. Points are scored by k ...
er who played for the
Carlton Football Club
The Carlton Football Club, nicknamed the Blues, is a professional Australian rules football club that competes in the Australian Football League (AFL), the sport's top professional competition.
Founded in 1864 in Carlton, an inner suburb of Mel ...
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
The son of James Watson Wilson (1859-1939), and Mary Young Wilson (1855-1927), née Forsyth, Archibald William Wilson was born at
Tatura
Tatura is a town in the Goulburn Valley region of Victoria, Australia, and is situated within the City of Greater Shepparton local government area, north of the state capital (Melbourne) and west of the regional centre of Shepparton. At the 2 ...
, Victoria on 25 April 1888.
He married Elsie Jane Clydesdale (1890-1973) on 20 February 1915.
Football
(Carlton VFL)
He was recruited from Tatura Football Club by the Carlton Secretary,
Arthur Ford, who, having been alerted to the potential of the Shepparton player,
Tom McCluskey
Thomas Miller "Tammas" McCluskey (31 August 1890 – 4 October 1917) was an Australian rules footballer who played with Carlton and Fitzroy in the Victorian Football League, and with Footscray in the Victorian Football Association (VFA).
Fa ...
, had gone to see a match between Tatura and Shepparton on Wednesday 24 August 1910, and was so impressed that he immediately signed up both Shepparton's McClusky and Tatura's Wilson.
Wilson and McClusky both made their debut for Carlton
against Richmond, at Princes Park, on the following Saturday, 27 August 1910, and both played for
the Carlton First XVIII that lost to Collingwood in the 1910 Grand Final.
Death
He died at the Mooroopna Hospital on 7 July 1961.
Deaths: Wilson, ''The Age'', (Saturday, 8 July 1961), p.19.
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External links
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Archie Wilson's profile
at Blueseum
1888 births
Australian rules footballers from Victoria (state)
Carlton Football Club players
Tatura Football Club players
1961 deaths
People educated at Geelong College
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