Claude Curtin
Appearance
Claude Curtin | |||
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Personal information | |||
Full name | Claude Frederick Curtin[1] | ||
Date of birth | 4 July 1920 | ||
Place of birth | Brunswick, Victoria | ||
Date of death | 13 December 1994 | (aged 74)||
Original team(s) | Fitzroy CYMS | ||
Height | 183 cm (6 ft 0 in) | ||
Weight | 83 kg (183 lb) | ||
Playing career1 | |||
Years | Club | Games (Goals) | |
1939–1947 | Fitzroy | 91 (268) | |
1948 | North Melbourne | 4 (7) | |
1949 | Fitzroy | 2 (1) | |
Total | 97 (276) | ||
1Playing statistics correct to the end of 1949. | |||
Sources:AFL Tables,AustralianFootball.com |
Claude Frederick Curtin(4 July 1920 – 13 December 1994)[2][3]was anAustralian rules footballerwho played withFitzroyin theVFL.
A full-forward, Curtin was the nephew of former Australian Prime MinisterJohn Curtin.[4]He kicked over fifty goals in a season on four separate occasions, from 1940 to 1942 and in 1946. In each of those seasons he topped Fitzroy's goalkicking. He would have been a member of the club's 1944 premiership side had he not be away on war service. His grandson is former Hawthorn player and Carlton coachJohn Barker
References
[edit]- ^"WW2 Nominal Roll".Australian Government.
- ^"Claude Curtin - Player Bio".Australian Football.Retrieved10 December2014.
- ^Gray, Darren (18 December 1994)."(For the Record)".The Age.p. 16.Retrieved24 January2011.
- ^Skulley, Mark (6 February 1992)."True-Blue Party Faithful Await Hawke Successor".The Sydney Morning Herald.p. 6.Retrieved24 January2011.
External links
[edit]- Claude Curtin's playing statisticsfrom AFL Tables
- Maroon and Blue article