Albert Hollingworth | |
Fullname: | Albert Edward Hollingworth |
Birth Date: | 16 August 1910 |
Birth Place: | Rosewater, South Australia |
Death Place: | Woodville, South Australia |
Position: | Centre half-forward |
Years1: | 1934–1940 |
Games Goals1: | 91 (193) |
Sooyears1: | 1935, 1937–38 |
Sooteam1: | South Australia |
Soogames Goals1: | 6 |
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Albert Edward Hollingworth (16 August 1910 – 1 October 1968) was an Australian rules footballer for the Port Adelaide Football Club in the 1930s.[1]
Hollingworth was a strong marking, long kicking centre half forward who made his league debut in 1934, and enjoyed a very successful season which earned him the club’s best and fairest award. His inaccurate shooting for goal, however, yielding a tally of 4.7, was a factor in Port Adelaide's grand final loss that year.[2]
Hollingworth won another club best and fairest award in 1936,[3] and, after being moved to full forward following Jack Prideaux’s retirement, he topped the Magpies' goal-kicking list in 1938 with 45 goals and in 1939 with 78. A South Australian interstate representative on half a dozen occasions, including both matches at the 1937 Perth carnival, he played a total of 91 league games including five Grand Finals.