Angelo Congear

Angelo Congear
Angelo Congear
	Congear in 1912
Personal information
Full name	Angelo Nicholas Goucar Congear
Nickname(s)	Congy
Date of birth	5 May 1885
Place of birth	Glanville, South Australia
Date of death	9 August 1986 (aged 101)
Original team(s)	Australs (1902–1906); Semaphore Centrals (1908)
Position(s)	Rover
Playing career
Years	Club
1908–1922	Port Adelaide
Representative team honours
Years	Team
1910–1919	South Australia
Career highlights
	Club 3x Champions of Australia team member (1910, 1913, 1914); 4x Port Adelaide premiership player (1910, 1913, 1914, 1921); 2x Port Adelaide leading goal-kicker (1909, 1915); Representative 15 games for South Australia; 1911 Carnival series championship (South Australia);
	Source: AustralianFootball.com

Angelo Nicholas Goucar Congear (5 May 1885 – 9 August 1986) was an Australian rules footballer who played for the Port Adelaide Football Club in the South Australian National Football League between 1908 and 1922.

Junior football (1902–1908)

Congear started playing football in 1902 with the Australs Football Club. In 1908 he started playing for Semaphore Centrals, an affiliate of the Port Adelaide Football Club who he would debut for later that year.^[5]

Port Adelaide (1908–1922)

Angelo Congear debuted in Port Adelaide's fifth match of the 1908 SAFL season against Norwood at Adelaide Oval. In front of a then record crowd of 25,000 at Adelaide Oval, Congear would kick a goal on debut but Port Adelaide would end up losing the match by 13 points.^[6]

During his career at Port Adelaide he played in seven Grand finals and won three Championships of Australia.^[7] Upon his induction into the Port Adelaide Football Club Hall of Fame he was listed as having played over 150 games.^[3]

A reporter for the Daily Herald of Adelaide considered him to be the best player during Port Adelaide's 1914 Championship of Australia victory over Fitzroy.^[8]

Reputation

Angelo Congear was considered to be one of the finest rovers in South Australia in his era.^[9]

Personal life

The Australian-born son of a Greek immigrant father from Kea, Cyclades Islands, Greece, John Angelo Congear, who migrated to Australia in 1861 and lived to be 101 years old.^[10] For work Congear would do manual labour on the Port Adelaide wharves, including on the mornings of days he played football.^[11]

References

^ "Congear - Public Member Photos & Scanned Documents - Ancestry.co.uk". www.ancestry.co.uk. Retrieved 15 June 2023.
^ "FamilySearch.org". FamilySearch. Retrieved 15 June 2023.
^ ^a ^b "Official AFL Website of the Port Adelaide Football Club". portadelaidefc.com.au. 2 December 2019. Retrieved 15 June 2023.
^ Devaney, John. "Angelo Congear". Australian Football.com.
^ "Thirteen Seasons". The Daily Herald. Vol. XII, no. 3581. Adelaide. 9 September 1921. p. 7. Retrieved 10 November 2016 – via National Library of Australia.
^ "FOOTBALL". The Register (Adelaide). Vol. LXXIII, no. 19, 211. South Australia. 9 June 1908. p. 8. Retrieved 19 November 2018 – via National Library of Australia.
^ "Thirteen Seasons". Daily Herald. Adelaide. 9 September 1921. p. 7. Retrieved 26 November 2014 – via National Library of Australia.
^ "Ports V. Carlton". Daily Herald. Adelaide. 5 October 1914. p. 2. Retrieved 15 July 2015 – via National Library of Australia.
^ Rucci, Michelangelo (31 July 2009). "Great game's top recruits".
^ "Mr. J. A. Congear Dies, Aged 101". The News. Adelaide. 12 October 1936. p. 7. Retrieved 26 November 2014 – via National Library of Australia.
^ ""Shine" Hosking's Reminiscenes". The Express and Telegraph. Vol. LIX, no. 17, 744. South Australia. 21 September 1922. p. 6 (5 O'CLOCK EDITION SPORTS NUMBER). Retrieved 20 September 2021 – via National Library of Australia.