Paddy Mills | |
Fullname: | Patrick Henry Mills |
Birth Date: | 17 March 1884 |
Birth Place: | Dandenong, Victoria |
Death Place: | South Melbourne, Victoria |
Originalteam: | Northcote, Rochester |
Height: | 174 cm |
Weight: | 77 kg |
Position: | Defense |
Statsend: | 1913 |
Years1: | 1903–09 |
Games Goals1: | 83 (15) |
Years2: | 1912–13 |
Games Goals2: | 20 (0) |
Games Goalstotal: | 103 (15) |
Paddy Mills (17 March 1884 – 12 July 1957) was an Australian rules footballer who played with Melbourne and Carlton in the Victorian Football League (VFL).[1]
Mills played with South Bendigo Football Club in 1910 and 1911,[2] then with Rochester Football Club from 1912 to 1915, with Mills coaching Rochester in 1913 and 1914 (premiers),[3] [4] in the Wednesday afternoon Goulburn Valley Football League competition.
During 1912 and 1913, Mills was playing with Carlton on Saturday’s and with Rochester on Wednesday’s.[5]
Mills was then captain-coach of Rochester when they moved across to play in the Bendigo Football League in 1915,[6] just prior to World War One, with the out break of the war ultimately finishing off his football career.