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Basil McCormack
Australian rules footballer
Basil Milton McCormack (3 August 1904 – 19 February 1973) was an Australian rules footballer who played in the Victorian Football League (VFL) between 1925 and 1936 for the Richmond Football Club.
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McCormack 1926 football card | |||
| Personal information | |||
| Full name | Basil Milton McCormack | ||
| Date of birth | (1904-08-03)3 August 1904 | ||
| Place of birth | Rochester, Victoria | ||
| Date of death | 19 February 1973(1973-02-19) (aged 68) | ||
| Place of death | Bentleigh, Victoria | ||
| Original team(s) | Rochester | ||
| Height | 180 cm (5 ft 11 in) | ||
| Weight | 79.5 kg (175 lb) | ||
| Position(s) | Half-back flank | ||
| Playing career1 | |||
| Years | Club | Games (Goals) | |
| 1925–1936 | Richmond | 200 (1) | |
| 1937–1940 | New Town Football Club | 57 (21) | |
| Coaching career3 | |||
| Years | Club | Games (W–L–D) | |
| 1937–1939 | New Town Football Club | ||
| 1947 | Franklin Football Club | ||
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1 Playing statistics correct to the end of 1940. 3 Coaching statistics correct as of 1947. | |||
| Career highlights | |||
| Sources: AFL Tables, AustralianFootball.com | |||
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Back Row: Jack Moriarty, Albert "Leeter" Collier, Hugh Dunbar, Gordon "Nuts" Coventry, Bob Johnson, Jack Baggott.
Second Row: Jack Vosti, Charlie Stanbridge, Arthur Stevens, Alex Duncan, Dick Taylor, Ted Baker.
Front Row: Basil McCormack, Arthur Rayson, Alan Geddes (vice-captain), Syd Coventry (captain), Barney Carr, Arthur “Bull” Coghlan, Herbert White.
The son of Michael McCormack and Mary McCormack (1865–1950), née Foley,[1] he was born at Rochester, Victoria on 3 August 1904.
A left-foot kick, recruited from Rochester,[2] he played 200 senior games for the Richmond Football Club as a half-back flanker,[3] and represented Victoria on 13 occasions.[4]
Double debut
Granted his clearance from Rochester to Richmond on Friday, 1 May 1925,[5] he played his first match for Richmond, selected on the half-back flank, against Hawthorn, on 2 May 1925 (round 1). He played well; with the match report noting that "McCormack … who marks and kicks well, [was] looking a very likely man".[6]
It was also the Hawthorn team's first match in the VFL competition, the former VFA club having been admitted (along with Footscray and North Melbourne) in the January of that year.[7]
He was suspended on two occasions: the first arose from the final on 14 September 1929 for striking (eight weeks), and the second was on 6 May 1933 for elbowing (six weeks).
Approached by Cananore in 1936, he was appointed captain-coach of the Tasmanian Football League's New Town Football Club in 1937.[8] He was captain-coach for three seasons (1937 to 1939), and played a number of senior games in 1940.
In 1947 he was appointed coach of the Franklin Football Club in the Huon Football Association.[9]
He coached St. Virgil's in the Tasmanian Amateur Football League from 1948 to 1950.
Having enlisted in the militia in 1939, the transferred to the Second AIF in 1943, and saw action in the Pacific Islands.
- Until 2020, the VFL/AFL records claimed 199 games, whereas the records of the Richmond Football Club showed 200 games (Hogan (1996), p.137).
- The decision to admit the three former VFA teams into the VFL had been made at a full meeting of the VFL on 16 January 1925: League Football: Applications for Admissions: Decision Again Deferred, The Geelong Advertiser, (Monday, 12 January 1925), p.5; Old Boy, "Football League: Admitting More Teams: Old Scheme Revised: Decision Left to Clubs", The Argus, (Tuesday, 13 January 1925), p.13; Football: Three New Clubs Admitted, The Age, (Saturday, 17 January 1925), p.14; League: Three Clubs Admitted, The Argus, (Saturday, 17 January 1925), p.31.
- Hogan P: The Tigers Of Old, Richmond FC, Melbourne 1996
- Richmond Football Club – Hall of Fame
- Basil McCormack's playing statistics from AFL Tables
- Basil McCormack at AustralianFootball.com
- Boyles Football Photos: Basil McCormack
- Photograph: Victorian Football League (Team), Visit to Western and South Australia, 1 to 16 July 1929 (State Library of Victoria).
- Militia Enlistment Form: Basil Milton McCormack (TX14087), National Archives of Australia.
- World War Two Nominal Roll: Staff Sergeant Basil Milton McCormack TX14087 (T492357)