Eric_Poole_(footballer)

Eric Poole (footballer)

Eric Poole (footballer)

Australian rules footballer

Eric Poole (29 August 1903 – 23 February 1968) was an Australian rules footballer who played with South Melbourne in the Victorian Football League (VFL).[1]

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Poole originally played with Burnie in Tasmania[2] before moving to Victoria to play with Collingwood.[3][4] He did not manage to break in to the senior team and in the middle of the season was granted a permit to move to Camberwell in the Victorian Football Association.[5]

In 1928 he moved to Yarraville Football Club and after a successful 1928 season was recruited by South Melbourne.[6] He played four VFL games before dropping out of the South Melbourne team and he subsequently returned to Yarraville before the end of the season.

Notes

  1. [1]
    Holmesby, Russell; Main, Jim (2014). The Encyclopedia of AFL Footballers: every AFL/VFL player since 1897 (10th ed.). Seaford, Victoria: BAS Publishing. p. 712. ISBN 978-1-921496-32-5.
  2. [2]
    "FOOTBALL". The Advocate. Tasmania, Australia. 12 March 1926. p. 3.
  3. [3]
    "FOOTBALL". The Advocate. Tasmania, Australia. 1 May 1926. p. 3.
  4. [4]
    "FOOTBALL". The Argus. No. 24, 874. Victoria, Australia. 30 April 1926. p. 5.
  5. [5]
    "FOOTBALL". The Age. No. 22, 227. Victoria, Australia. 1 July 1926. p. 7.
  6. [6]
    "1929 - Melbourne's ruck tells". Trove Newspapers. Sporting Globe (Melbourne, Vic). 27 April 1929. p. 1. Retrieved 9 December 2020.

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