Horrie Farmer | |
Fullname: | Horace Charles Farmer |
Birth Date: | 28 August 1909 |
Birth Place: | Prahran, Victoria |
Death Place: | Warragul, Victoria |
Originalteam: | Warragul |
Height: | 178 cm |
Weight: | 67 kg |
Statsend: | 1937 |
Years1: | 1933 |
Club1: | Richmond |
Games Goals1: | 8 (14) |
Years2: | 1936–1937 |
Club2: | North Melbourne |
Games Goals2: | 19 (23) |
Games Goalstotal: | 27 (37) |
Horace Charles Farmer (28 August 1909 – 13 October 1981) was an Australian rules footballer who played with Richmond and North Melbourne in the Victorian Football League (VFL).[1]
Farmer was a forward and set a club record when he kicked six goals on his VFL debut for Richmond, against North Melbourne at Punt Road Oval in 1933.[2] He played seven more games that year, including the 1933 VFL Grand Final loss to South Melbourne, kicking two of Richmond's four goals.[3]
In 1934 he returned to the country and played for his original club, Warragul.
He began playing for North Melbourne in the 1936 VFL season and appeared in 17 of a possible 18 games.[3] In 1937 he played in the opening two rounds, then returned to Warragul.[4] His father, also named Horrie, played league football for St Kilda.[5]