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Australian rules footballer
Bill Luff
Luff in 1910
Personal information
Full name William John Luff
Date of birth (1886-01-15)15 January 1886
Place of birth Hawthorn, Victoria
Date of death 6 September 1952(1952-09-06) (aged 66)
Place of death Blackburn, Victoria
Original team(s) Richmond Imperials
Height 191 cm (6 ft 3 in)
Weight 73 kg (161 lb)
Playing career
Years Club Games (Goals)
1908–10 Richmond 39 (0)
Playing statistics correct to the end of 1910.
Sources: AFL Tables, AustralianFootball.com

William John Luff (15 January 1886 – 6 September 1952) was an Australian rules footballer who played with the Richmond in the Victorian Football League (VFL).

Family

The son of Richmond City Councillor, Charles Osborne Luff (1851-1922), and Charlotte Luff (1854-1943), née Entwhistle, William John Luff was born on 15 January 1886.

He married Sarah Ross (1888-1976) in 1909. Their son, William Norman Charles Luff, a.k.a. "Bill Luff" played with Camberwell in the VFA and, then, with Essendon in the VFL.

He died on 6 September 1952.

Football

He was a "tall, lightly-built" half-back flanker, "who was a fine high mark possessed sound judgement and a good football brain".

Richmond (VFA)

Along with his brother Jim, Luff played for Richmond in the VFA competition from 1905 to 1907.

Richmond (VFL)

Richmond entered the VFL competition in 1908; and Luff played with 39 senior games for Richmond over three seasons (1908-1910). He was the first Richmond (VFL) footballer to represent Victoria — he played three games for Victoria in the Jubilee Australasian Football Carnival of 1908.

Prahran (VFA)

He transferred to Prahran in 1911. Where he played one game.

Beverley (MAFA)

In 1914, he was cleared from Prahran to the Beverley Football Club, in the Metropolitan Amateur Football Association.

See also

Footnotes

  1. Holmesby & Main (2014), p.531.
  2. Deaths: Luff, The Age, (Wednesday, 10 May 1922), p.1; Deaths: Luff, The Age, (Saturday, 13 May 1922), p.11.
  3. Deaths: Luff, The Age, (Wednesday, 4 August 1943), p.6.
  4. Deaths: Luff, The Argus, (Monday, 8 September 1952), p.14; Deaths: Luff, The Argus, (Monday, 8 September 1952), p.7.
  5. Hogan (1996), p.128.
  6. Football: Victorian Association: Permits Granted, The Age, (Friday, 28 April 1911), p.10.
  7. https://thevfaproject.org/pages/Players/Luff,_William_b1886.php VFA project - Luff, William b1886
  8. Metropolitan Amateur Association, The Argus, (Saturday, 27 June 1914), p.22.

References

  • Hogan P: The Tigers Of Old, Richmond FC, (Melbourne), 1996. ISBN 0-646-18748-1
  • Holmesby, R. & Main, J., The Encyclopedia of AFL Footballers: every AFL/VFL player since 1897 (Tenth Edition), BAS Publishing, (Seaford, Victoria), 2014. ISBN 978-1-921496-32-5

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