Vic Barwick

Vic Barwick
Cigarette card of Barwick in 1905
Personal information
Full name Victor Albert Ernest Joseph Barwick
Date of birth 17 June 1879
Place of birth Oatlands, Tasmania
Date of death 20 December 1963(1963-12-20) (aged 84)
Place of death Brighton East, Victoria
Original team(s) Linton / Union
Height 177 cm (5 ft 10 in)
Weight 81 kg (179 lb)
Position(s) Rover
Playing career1
Years Club Games (Goals)
1903–09, 1913 St Kilda 105 (66)
1 Playing statistics correct to the end of 1913.
Sources: AFL Tables, AustralianFootball.com

Victor Albert Ernest Joseph Barwick (17 June 1879 – 20 December 1963)[1] was an Australian rules footballer who played for St Kilda in the Victorian Football League (VFL).

Football

Barwick began his early football career in the Tasmanian town of Queenstown and was noticed for the quality of his play in 1900 in a match against the visiting Fitzroy team from Victoria.[2] Within a few years he ventured to the mainland and in 1903 joined St Kilda.[3] He made his debut in the round six match versus Melbourne.[4]

A strongly built rover, he was good enough to represent the VFL against Western Australia in 1904[5] and topped St Kilda's goal-kicking in 1909 with 16 goals. Barwick also was club captain for both the 1905 and 1909 seasons. Although he would return to St Kilda briefly in 1913, Barwick finished his career at Brighton in the Victorian Football Association.

He was one of the earlier Tasmanian players to have made a mark in the Victorian Football League and in 2005 he was inducted into his state's Football Hall of Fame.[6]

Notes

  1. ^ "Vic Barwick - Player Bio". Australian Football. Retrieved 21 November 2014.
  2. ^ "ITEMS OF NEWS". The Mount Lyell Standard And Strahan Gazette. Vol. 4, no. 632. Tasmania, Australia. 29 June 1900. p. 2. Retrieved 3 March 2018 – via National Library of Australia.
  3. ^ "FOOTBALL". The Argus (Melbourne). No. 17, 747. Victoria, Australia. 30 May 1903. p. 15. Retrieved 3 March 2018 – via National Library of Australia.
  4. ^ "AFL Tables - St Kilda v Melbourne - Sat, 6-Jun-1903 3:00 PM - Match Stats".
  5. ^ "THE WESTERN AUSTRALIAN TEAM". The Age. No. 15, 417. Victoria, Australia. 6 August 1904. p. 9. Retrieved 3 March 2018 – via National Library of Australia.
  6. ^ "3. Victor Barwick | AFL Tasmania Hall of Fame".

References

  • Holmesby, Russell and Main, Jim (2007). The Encyclopedia of AFL Footballers. 7th ed. Melbourne: Bas Publishing.
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