Graham Diggle | |
Fullname: | Graham Diggle |
Birth Date: | 13 March 1889 |
Birth Place: | Flemington, Victoria |
Death Place: | Seymour, Victoria |
Originalteam: | Euroa |
Height: | 180 cm |
Weight: | 83 kg |
Statsend: | 1919 |
Years1: | 1907–09 |
Club1: | (VFL) |
Games Goals1: | 13 (1) |
Years2: | 1912–15, 1919 |
Club2: | Essendon A (VFA) |
Games Goals2: | 47 (49) |
Years3: | 1920–24 |
Club3: | Seymour (WNEFA)[1] |
Graham Diggle (13 March 1889 – 31 May 1971) was an Australian rules footballer who played with Collingwood in the Victorian Football League (VFL).[2]
The son of George Diggle (1860-1938), an undertaker,[3] and Lucy Diggle (1870-1946), née Bird,[4] Graham Diggle was born at Flemington, Victoria on 13 March 1889.
He married Agnes Mary Smith (1886-1959) on 11 April 1914.[5]
Recruited from the Euroa Football Club in the Euroa District Football League (EDFL), he played 13 games for Collingwood's First XVIII over three seasons: 9 games in 1907; 2 games in 1908; and 2 games in 1909.
Released by Collingwood in May 1909, he returned to the Euroa Football Club.[6]
Cleared from Collingwood to Essendon A in the VFA in July 1912,[7] Diggle played in 44 First XVIII matches for Essendon from 1912 to 1915, and 3 games in the post-war VFA competition in 1919.
From 1920 to 1924, he was captain-coach of the Seymour Football Club in the Waranga North East Football Association. The team won two premierships in Diggle's time as coach: in 1920, and in 1923 (unbeaten in the entire season).[8]
He died at Seymour, Victoria on 31 May 1971.[9]