Firth William McCallum (27 December 1872 – 11 July 1910) was an
Australian rules football
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er who played with
Geelong
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in the
Victorian Football League
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(VFL).
At the end of the 1899 season, in the process of naming his own "champion player", the football correspondent for ''The Argus'' ("Old Boy"), selected a team of the best players of the 1899 VFL competition:
Backs:
Maurie Collins (Essendon),
Bill Proudfoot (Collingwood),
Peter Burns (Geelong); Halfbacks:
Pat Hickey (Fitzroy),
George Davidson (South Melbourne),
Alf Wood (Melbourne); Centres:
Fred Leach
John Frederick Leach (6 March 1878 – 14 April 1908) was an Australian rules footballer who played for the Collingwood Football Club in the Victorian Football League (VFL).
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The son of Thomas Leach (1847-1916), and Emma Bunkin Leac ...
(Collingwood), Firth McCallum (Geelong),
Harry Wright
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(Essendon); Wings:
Charlie Pannam (Collingwood),
Eddie Drohan
Edward Patrick Drohan (17 July 1876 – 28 July 1938) was an Australian rules footballer who played for the Fitzroy Football Club and Collingwood Football Club in the Victorian Football League (VFL) before becoming an umpire and a coach.
Droha ...
(Fitzroy),
Herb Howson
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Football
A wingman, Howson played with South Melbourne for four seasons in the Victorian ...
(South Melbourne); Forwards:
Bill Jackson (Essendon),
Eddy James
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James started his career as a backman, playing ...
(Geelong),
Charlie Colgan
Charlie Colgan (9 February 1878 – 25 July 1935) was an Australian rules footballer who played with South Melbourne in the Victorian Football League (VFL).
At the end of the 1899 season, in the process of naming his own "champion player", th ...
(South Melbourne); Ruck:
Mick Pleass
George Victor "Mick" Pleass (12 November 1874 – 27 August 1925) was an Australian rules footballer who played with South Melbourne and Essendon in the VFA and Victorian Football League (VFL).
Football
Pleass was a follower and played his ea ...
(South Melbourne),
Frank Hailwood
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Family
One of the eight children of Joseph Hailwood (1834–1912), and Ellen ...
(Collingwood),
Joe McShane
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Family
The son of Philip McShane (1835-1908), and Mary Ann McShane (1836-1912), née McCabe, Joseph Francis ...
(Geelong); Rovers:
Dick Condon
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(Collingwood),
Bill McSpeerin
William Joseph McSpeerin (25 September 1874 – 3 June 1943) was an Australian rules footballer who played for the Fitzroy Football Club in the Victorian Football League (VFL).
Family
The son of James McSpeerin (1846-1909), and Catherine McSp ...
(Fitzroy),
Teddy Rankin
Edwin Walter "Teddy" Rankin (11 March 1872 – 31 July 1944) was an Australian rules footballer, originally with Riversdale, who began playing with Geelong in the VFA in 1891, and later played in the Victorian Football League (VFL).
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(Geelong).
From those he considered to be the three best players — that is, Condon, Hickey, and Pleass — he selected Pat Hickey as his "champion player" of the season.
'Old Boy', "Football: A Review of the Season", (Monday, 18 September 1899), p.6.
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1872 births
1910 deaths
Australian rules footballers from Victoria (Australia)
Australian Rules footballers: place kick exponents
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