Arthur Thomas Maskell (28 March 1894 – 16 June 1970) was an Australian rules footballer who played for the Melbourne Football Club in the Victorian Football League (VFL).[1]

Arthur Maskell
Personal information
Full name Arthur Thomas Maskell
Date of birth (1894-03-28)28 March 1894
Place of birth Tatura, Victoria
Date of death 16 June 1970(1970-06-16) (aged 76)
Place of death Heidelberg, Victoria
Original team(s) Leongatha
Height 177 cm (5 ft 10 in)
Weight 78 kg (172 lb)
Playing career1
Years Club Games (Goals)
1913 Melbourne 1 (0)
1 Playing statistics correct to the end of 1913.
Sources: AFL Tables, AustralianFootball.com

Family

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The son of Arthur Maskell (1849–1917),[2] and Elizabeth Margaret Maskell (1856–1921), née Fuzzard,[3][4][5][6] Arthur Thomas Maskell was born at Tatura, Victoria on 28 March 1894.

He married Teresa Daphne Duggan (1894–1967) on 21 October 1916. They had three children: Edna Jean Maskell (b.1917), Kevin Joseph Maskell (b.1921), and Marie Teresa Maskell (b.1929).

Football

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Recruited from Shepparton, he played on the half-back flank in his only senior VFL match for Melbourne, against University, at the MCG, on 28 June 1913, replacing the injured Norm McDougall.[7]

McDougall was fit enough to play in the following match, Maskell was "dropped", and the Herald's football correspondent noted that "Maskell Is not likely to play again with Melboune".[8]

Maskell returned to play in Shepparton's 1913 Goulburn Valley Football League's premiership. [9]

Notes

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  1. ^ Holmesby & Main (2009), p.556.
  2. ^ Deaths: Maskell, (Saturday, 15 September 1917), p.5.
  3. ^ Marriages: Maskell—Fuzzard, The Leader, (Saturday, 4 December 1875), p.25.
  4. ^ Her father, John Hickey (1825-1856), died three months after her birth, and her mother Jane Hickey (1836-1912), née Colliver, remarried — to John Newman Fuzzard (1829-1909) — on 30 June 1857; consequently, by the time of her marriage to Arthur Maskell, she was known as "Elizabeth Margaret Fuzzard", rather than "Elizabeth Margaret Hickey".
  5. ^ Deaths, The Age, (Wednesday, 29 June 1921), p.10.
  6. ^ Obituary: Mrs. E.M. Maskell, The Shepparton Advertiser, (Thursday, 30 June 1921), p3.
  7. ^ Melbourne (7.20) Beat University (7.11), The Age, (Monday, 30 June 1913), p.13.
  8. ^ Play and Players, The Herald, (Friday, 4 July 1913), p.4.
  9. ^ "1913 - Goulburn Valley FL: Shepparton again Premiers". Trove Newspapers. The Bendigo Independent (Vic). 25 September 1913. p. 6. Retrieved 10 January 2021.

References

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  • Holmesby, Russell; Main, Jim (2009). The Encyclopedia of AFL Footballers: every AFL/VFL player since 1897 (8th ed.). Seaford, Victoria: BAS Publishing. ISBN 978-1-921496-00-4.
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