Aubrey MacKenzie | |
Fullname: | Aubrey Duckworth MacKenzie |
Birth Date: | 23 October 1894 |
Birth Place: | Durban, South Africa |
Death Place: | near Broadford, Victoria[1] |
Originalteam: | Brunswick Juniors |
Statsend: | 1924 |
Years1: | 1914 |
Club1: | Melbourne |
Games Goals1: | 2 (0) |
Years2: | 1922–1924 |
Club2: | St Kilda |
Games Goals2: | 35 (8) |
Games Goalstotal: | 37 (8) |
Aubrey Duckworth MacKenzie (23 October 1894 – 15 July 1933) was an Australian rules footballer who played with Melbourne and St Kilda in the Victorian Football League (VFL).
A Brunswick junior, MacKenzie appeared twice for Melbourne in the 1914 VFL season before enlisting in the armed forces and serving during the war.[2] [3]
MacKenzie was a member of Footscray's 1919 and 1920 Victorian Football Association premiership sides when he returned from the war and signed with St Kilda for the 1922 season.[4] The South African born ruckman spent three years with St Kilda and helped turn a struggling outfit into a winning team.[5]
In 1931, McKenzie was elected as President of the Corowa Football Club in the Ovens and Murray Football League. He also acted as their football coach in 1931, as a volunteer, receiving no remuneration.[6]
MacKenzie died on 15 July 1933, when he was beheaded in a motor vehicle accident near Broadford, Victoria.[7]
He was survived by his wife, Lillian, and his two children, Audrey and Maxie.[8]