Alf Tredinnick Explained

Alf Tredinnick
Fullname:Alfred Ernest Tredinnick
Birth Date:16 June 1873
Birth Place:Campbells Creek, Victoria
Death Place:East Melbourne, Victoria
Originalteam:Goldfields League
Height:174 cm
Position:Defender
Statsend:1901
Years1:1901
Games Goals1:7 (1)

Alfred Ernest Tredinnick (16 June 1873 – 19 May 1910)[1] was an Australian rules footballer who played for the Melbourne Football Club in the Victorian Football League (VFL).

Tredinnick played football for Rovers Football Club in the Western Australian Football Association in 1898[2] before moving to the Goldfields Football Association and playing for Kalgoorlie from 1899 to 1900,[3] where he was an all-round sportsman who also played cricket and ran competitively as a sprinter.[4] He was an employee of the Western Australian Bank while living in Kalgoorlie, which meant he had to run under the assumed name "Alf Hall".[5]

He returned to Victoria in 1901 and played seven games for Melbourne in the Victorian Football League during that season. In 1902, he won the Stawell Gift, Australia's most prestigious running race. Tredinnick died after a short illness in 1910; his obituary remembered him as "one of the best footballers and athletes in the Castlemaine district".[6]

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Notes and References

  1. Web site: Alf Tredinnick – Player Bio. Australian Football. 18 December 2014.
  2. News: Rovers v. East Fremantle. . The Inquirer And Commercial News . LVIII . 3,190 . Western Australia . 20 May 1898 . 12.
  3. News: Football Notes. . The Evening Star . II . 323 . Kalgoorlie, Western Australia . 7 April 1899 . 4.
  4. News: Athletics. 1 September 2015. Kalgoorlie Western Argus. 15 April 1902. 38.
  5. News: Memories of Postle and Day Revived. 1 September 2015. The Mirror. 2 March 1935. 12.
  6. News: Obituary . 1 September 2015. Bendigo Advertiser. 23 May 1910. 5.