Arch McDonald (footballer)

Archibald William Campbell McDonald (25 December 1882 – 20 July 1932) was an Australian rules footballer who played for the Essendon Football Club in the Victorian Football League (VFL).[1]

Arch McDonald
Personal information
Full name Archibald William Campbell McDonald
Date of birth (1882-12-25)25 December 1882
Place of birth Nagambie, Victoria
Date of death 20 July 1932(1932-07-20) (aged 49)
Place of death Melbourne, Victoria
Playing career1
Years Club Games (Goals)
1905 Essendon 1 (0)
1 Playing statistics correct to the end of 1905.
Sources: AFL Tables, AustralianFootball.com

Family

Parents

The son of Patrick McDonald (1852–1928),[2] and Margaret McDonald (1853–1928), née Figgins,[3] Archibald William Campbell McDonald, one of five boys and three girls, was born on 25 December 1882 in Nagambie, Victoria.

Siblings

Two of his brothers, Edwin Patrick "Ted" McDonald (1875–1919), and Fenley John "Fen" McDonald (1891–1915) also played VFL football; Ted, with Essendon, and Fen with both Carlton and Melbourne.

Fen enlisted in the First AIF, and was killed in action during the landing at Anzac Cove, Gallipoli, in Turkey on 25 April 1915. Another brother, Stanley David McDonald (1888–1945), also served in the First AIF, enlisting on 20 May 1915, before the news of Fen's death had reached his family.[4]

Arch married Susan Lillian Patten (1884–1972) in 1910.

Football

Arch and Ted played together in their only game with the Essendon First XVIII: the last match of the season, against Fitzroy, at the East Melbourne Cricket Ground, on 9 September 1905.[5][6]

Death

He died in Melbourne on 20 July 1932.[7]

See also

Notes
  1. Holmesby, Russell; Main, Jim (2014). The Encyclopedia of AFL Footballers: every AFL/VFL player since 1897 (10th ed.). Seaford, Victoria: BAS Publishing. p. 572. ISBN 978-1-921496-32-5.
  2. Deaths: McDonald, The Argus, (Thursday, 8 November 1928), p.1.
  3. Deaths: McDonald, The Argus, (Saturday, 14 January 1928), p.13.
  4. Australian War Memorial Photograph: Private Stanley McDonald (1769); World War I Service Record: Stanley McDonald (1769).
  5. League Matches: Fitzroy (11.14) beat Essendon (4.13), The Age, (Monday, 11 September 1905), p.9.
  6. Fitzroy in Fine Form, The Australasian, (Saturday, 16 September 1905), p.21.
  7. Deaths: McDonald, The Age, (Thursday, 21 July 1932), p.1.

References
  • Maplestone, M., Flying Higher: History of the Essendon Football Club 1872–1996, Essendon Football Club, (Melbourne), 1996. ISBN 0-9591740-2-8
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