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Harry Purdy (footballer, born 1867)

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Australian rules footballer For his son, who also played football for South Melbourne, see Harry Purdy (footballer, born 1898).

Australian rules footballer
Harry Purdy
Personal information
Full name Henry Robert Purdy
Date of birth (1867-08-28)28 August 1867
Place of birth Learmonth, Victoria
Date of death 26 November 1922(1922-11-26) (aged 55)
Place of death Gardenvale, Victoria
Original team(s) South Ballarat
Position(s) Rover
Playing career
Years Club Games (Goals)
1885 South Ballarat 13 (0)
1886-1890, 1892–1896 South Melbourne (VFA) 124 (0)
1897–1901 South Melbourne (VFL) 72 (16)
Total 209 (16)
Playing statistics correct to the end of 1901.
Career highlights
  • VFA premiership player 1888-1890
Sources: AFL Tables, AustralianFootball.com

Henry Robert Purdy (28 August 1867 – 26 November 1922) was an Australian rules footballer who played with South Melbourne in the Victorian Football Association (VFA) and the Victorian Football League (VFL).

Family

The son of William Frederick Purdy (1834-1918), and Hannah Purdy (1835-1931), née Coates, Henry Robert Purdy was born at Learmonth, Victoria on 28 August 1867.

He married Louisa Hannah Seeley (1870–1937), at South Melbourne, on 27 February 1895. Their son, Henry Frederick Burnett Purdy (1898-1978), also known as "Harry", played nine games for South Melbourne in the 1910s.

Football

Originally from the South Ballarat Football Club, he moved to Melbourne in 1886.

The knee injury that he sustained in a charity game, against Fitzroy, on 20 September 1890, meant that he was unable to play in the 1891 season.

Purdy later played for Brighton in the Metropolitan Junior Football Association (MJFA), including in the club's 1902 grand final loss to Collegians.

Death

He died at Gardenvale, Victoria on 26 November 1922.

Notes

  1. Holmesby & Main (2014), p. 723.
  2. Death: Purdy, The Ballarat Star, (Monday, 8 July 1918), p. 4.
  3. Obituary, The Ballarat Courier, (Monday, 8 July 1918), p. 7.
  4. Deaths: Purdy, The Argus, (Saturday, 29 August 1931), p 13.
  5. Births Deaths and Marriages Victoria Births Registration No.22646/1867.
  6. Marriages: Purdy—Seeley, The Leader, (Saturday, 20 April 1895), p. 35.
  7. Deaths: Purdy, The Sun News-Pictorial, (Monday, 16 August 1937), p. 34.
  8. "Football". Record. Vol. XXII, no. 18. Victoria, Australia. 5 May 1917. p. 2. Retrieved 13 September 2016 – via National Library of Australia.
  9. Football: Fitzroy v. South Ballarat, The Ballarat Courier, (Monday, 21 July 1884), p. 4.
  10. South Ballarat Football Club, The Ballarat Courier, (Saturday, 20 March 1886), p. 4.
  11. Football: South Melbourne v. Union Jack (23), The (Melbourne) Herald, (Friday, 30 April 1886), p. 4.
  12. ^ "Mr Harry Purdy's Death Mourned: Impressive Funeral". The (Emerald Hill) Record. Vol. XXVII, no. 48. Victoria, Australia. 2 December 1922. p. 4. Retrieved 13 September 2016 – via National Library of Australia.
  13. Harry Purdy: A Prominent Footballer, The Sportsman, (Wednesday, 27 August 1890), p. 6.
  14. South Melbourne Team (photograph), The Weekly Times, (Saturday, 22 August 1896), p. 10: Purdy is third player from left front row.
  15. Pennings (2016), p. 20.
  16. On 9 May 1891, "Markwell", of The Australasian, remarked that " knee is so bad that the chances are against him ever playing football again".
  17. Presentation to Mr. Harry Purdy, The (Emerald Hill) Record, (Saturday, 24 December 1898), p. 4.
  18. "PREMIERSHIP LIST, SEASON 1902". Leader. 27 September 1902. p. 17. Retrieved 13 October 2024. On both sides two or three ex-League players appeared, notably Cumberland for Collegians and Harry Purdy for Brighton.
  19. Deaths: Purdy, The Argus, (Tuesday, 28 November 1922), p. 1.
  20. Deaths: Purdy, The Ballarat Star, (Tuesday, 28 November 1922), p. 4.

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