Keith Osmond Explained

Keith Osmond
Fullname:Percy Ernest Keith Osmond
Birth Date:26 January 1899
Birth Place:Sale, Victoria
Death Place:Austin Hospital,
Heidelberg, Victoria
Originalteam:Richmond United F.C.
Height:165 cm
Weight:67 kg
Statsend:1926
Years1:1921, 1923–24
Games Goals1:12 (0)
Years2:1926
Games Goals2:4 (0)
Games Goalstotal:16 (0)

Percy Ernest Keith Osmond (26 January 1899 – 8 March 1969) was an Australian rules footballer who played with Richmond and Collingwood in the Victorian Football League (VFL).[1]

Family

The son of Ernest John Osmond (1869-1951),[2] and Catherine Osmond (1869-1938), née Goodie,[3] Percy Ernest Keith Osmond was born at Sale, Victoria on 26 January 1899.

He married Isabella Small Walker (1894-1981) in 1938.

Football

Richmond (VFL)

Recruited from the Richmond United Football Club in 1919. In his six seasons with the Richmond Football Club he played in 12 games with the First XVIII, and in 62 games with the Second XVIII (scoring 9 goals), including the 1923 Second XVIII Grand Final team that lost to Geelong 5.10 (40) to 9.12 (66), in which he was one of Richmond's best players.[4] [5]

Hamilton Y.M.C.A.

In 1925 he was appointed coach of the Hamilton Y.M.C.A. Football Club in the Hamilton and District Football Association.[6] [7]

Collingwod (VFL)

In May 1926 he was cleared to play with Collingwood.[8]

Death

He died at the Austin Hospital, in Heidelberg, Victoria on 8 March 1969.[9]

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Notes and References

  1. Holmesby & Main (2014), p.680.
  2. http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article206385492 Deaths: Osmond, The Age, (Saturday, 21 April 1951), p.2.
  3. http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article205187413 Deaths: Osmond, The Age, (Saturday, 8 October 1938), p.17.
  4. Hogan (1996), pp.169, 311.
  5. http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article166012316 Second Eighteen wins Premiership: Richmond well beaten in Grand Final: Geelong plays with Seventeen Men, The Geelong Advertiser, (Monday, 22 October 1923), p.7.
  6. http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article223166047 Hamilton Preparations, The Weekly Times, (Saturday, 2 May 1925), p.83.
  7. http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article223293806 Hamilton Matches, The Weekly Times, (Saturday, 25 July 1925), p.81.
  8. http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article201639810 Football: League Permits Granted, The Age, (Thursday, 27 May 1926), p.5.
  9. https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=z8hYAAAAIBAJ&sjid=epMDAAAAIBAJ&pg=2308%2C2038945 Deaths: Osmond, The Age, (Monday, 10 March 1969), p.12.