Henry James Watson McPetrie (14 March 1877 – 1 November 1937) was a former Australian rules footballer who played for the St Kilda Football Club in the Victorian Football Association (VFA) and the Carlton Football Club in the Victorian Football League (VFL).[1]
| Henry McPetrie | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Personal information | |||
| Full name | Henry James Watson McPetrie | ||
| Date of birth | 14 March 1877 | ||
| Place of birth | Glasgow, Scotland | ||
| Date of death | 1 November 1937 (aged 60) | ||
| Place of death | Castlemaine, Victoria | ||
| Original team(s) | Richmond City | ||
| Position(s) | Forward | ||
| Playing career1 | |||
| Years | Club | Games (Goals) | |
| 1894 | Richmond City | ||
| 1895 | St Kilda (VFA) | 3 (1) | |
| 1896 | West Beach | ||
| 1897 | Carlton (VFL) | 5 (2) | |
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1 Playing statistics correct to the end of 1897. | |||
| Sources: AFL Tables, AustralianFootball.com | |||
Family
editThe son of the Master mariner, Captain Alexander McPetrie (1840-1892),[2][3] — who was in command of the iron-hulled clipper ship, Ben Voirlich, when it set the record of 64 days between Plymouth and Port Phillip in January 1875[4] — and Elizabeth Simpson Petrie (1850-1915), née Mathieson,[5][6][7] Henry James Watson McPetrie was born in Glasgow, Scotland on 14 March 1877.
One of his brothers, William Martin McPetrie (1880–1951) played cricket for Victoria.
Football
editSt Kilda (VFA)
editRecruited from Richmond City, he played in 3 games (1 goal) for St Kilda in the 1895 VFA competition.[8]
West Beach
editHe played for the West Beach Football Club,[9] in the St Kilda District, in 1896.[10]
Carlton (VFL)
editRecruited from West Beach, he played in 5 games for Carlton, in 1897, the first year of the VFL competition, and played against Fitzroy, at the Brunswick Street Oval, on 8 May 1897, Carlton's first game in the VFL.
Death
editHe died (suddenly) at Castlemaine, Victoria on 1 November 1937.[11]
Notes
edit- ^ Holmesby & Main (2009).
- ^ Deaths: McPetrie, The Australasian, (Saturday, 30 July 1892), p. 238.
- ^ Items of News, The (Port Melbourne) Standard, (Saturday, 30 July 1892), p. 2.
- ^ Lubbock (1921), pp. 235-236.
- ^ Births Deaths and Marriages Victoria Marriages Registration no.4280/1869.
- ^ Death: McPetrie, The (Melbourne) Herald, (Wednesday, 30 June 1915), p.10.
- ^ Death of Mrs. McPetrie, The Dubbo Liberal and Macquarie Advocate, (Friday, 16 July 1915), p. 6.
- ^ Pennings (2016), p. 465.
- ^ N.B.: no connexion with West Beach, South Australia.
- ^ "West Beach" was an ill-defined area — covering the large area of swampy ground that, eventually, became today's West St Kilda, Middle Park, and Albert Park — the administrative control of which, according to Cooper (1931, passim.), intermittently moved from St Kilda City Council to the Emerald Hill (later, South Melbourne) City Council, and back again. The West Beach Football Club ([1]) was a "Junior" team from the St Kilda area that regularly played against other "Junior" teams.
- ^ Deaths: McPetrie, The Argus, (Monday, 8 November 1937), p. 15.
References
edit- Cooper, J.B. (1931), The History of St. Kilda: From its First Settlement to a City and After: 1840 to 1930 (Volume II), St. Kilda, Victoria: St. Kilda City Council.
- 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.
- Lubbock, B. (1921), The Colonial Clippers (Second Edition), Glasgow: James Brown & Son.
- Pennings, Mark (2016), Origins of Australian Football: Victoria's early History: Volume 4: Tough Times: Victorian Football loses its Way, 1891 to 1896, Brunswick, Victoria: Grumpy Monks Publishing. ISBN 978-0-646-93604-8
External links
edit- Henry McPetrie's playing statistics from AFL Tables
- Henry McPetrie at AustralianFootball.com
- Henry McPetrie's profile at Blueseum.
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