Ernest John McIntyre (19 April 1921 – 10 April 2003) 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
St Kilda and
Collingwood in the
Victorian Football League (VFL) during the 1940s. He was born at
Albert Park, Victoria, a suburb of
Melbourne, in 1921.
McIntyre, a ruckman, began his football career at
Sandringham in 1939 before crossing to the VFL where he joined St Kilda. A dentist by profession, he played his football as an amateur and didn't appear at all for St Kilda in 1942 due to Navy commitments. He represented Victoria in an interstate match against South Australia at Adelaide in 1945.
Noted for his sportsmanlike conduct on the field, on one occasion during a game he helped an opponent
Don Cordner to his feet and also once applauded another opponent
Bill Morris after he took a good mark. This rubbed coach
Fred Froude and the St Kilda committee up the wrong way and when McIntyre was relegated to 19th man for a game in 1948 he resigned and switched to Collingwood. He appeared in his first ever final series that year, kicking two goals in Collingwood's losing Preliminary Final against Melbourne.
A club cricketer for St Kilda during the 1940s,
[Ernest McIntyre]
CricketArchive. Retrieved 11 March 2023. McIntyre also played two
first-class cricket matches for
Victoria as a right-arm fast-medium pace bowler, taking 11 wickets at a
bowling average
In cricket, a player's bowling average is the number of runs they have conceded per wicket taken. The lower the bowling average is, the better the bowler is performing. It is one of a number of statistics used to compare bowlers, commonly use ...
of 16.45 runs per wicket. Both his first-class matches were against Tasmania in December 1946 in non-
Sheffield Shield matches.
[ In the second fixture, at Hobart, McIntyre took 4/52 in the first innings which were his career best figures.][Ernest McIntyre]
CricInfo
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. Retrieved 11 March 2003.
References
External links
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Ernest McIntyre's playing statistics
from The VFA Project
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1921 births
2003 deaths
St Kilda Football Club players
Collingwood Football Club players
Sandringham Football Club players
Australian cricketers
Victoria cricketers
Australian dentists
Cricketers from Melbourne
Australian rules footballers from Melbourne
20th-century dentists
Royal Australian Navy personnel of World War II
People from Albert Park, Victoria
Military personnel from Melbourne