Claude Curtin | |
Fullname: | Claude Frederick Curtin[1] |
Birth Date: | 4 July 1920 |
Birth Place: | Brunswick, Victoria |
Originalteam: | Fitzroy CYMS |
Height: | 183 cm |
Weight: | 83 kg |
Statsend: | 1949 |
Years1: | 1939–1947 |
Club1: | Fitzroy |
Games Goals1: | 91 (268) |
Years2: | 1948 |
Club2: | North Melbourne |
Games Goals2: | 4 (7) |
Years3: | 1949 |
Club3: | Fitzroy |
Games Goals3: | 2 (1) |
Games Goalstotal: | 97 (276) |
Claude Frederick Curtin (4 July 1920 – 13 December 1994)[2] [3] was an Australian rules footballer who played with Fitzroy in the VFL.
A full-forward, Curtin was the nephew of former Australian Prime Minister John Curtin.[4] He kicked over fifty goals in a season on four separate occasions, from 1940 to 1942 and in 1946. In each of those seasons he topped Fitzroy's goalkicking. He would have been a member of the club's 1944 premiership side had he not be away on war service.His grandson is former Hawthorn player and Carlton coach John Barker