Arthur Maskell

Arthur Thomas Maskell (28 March 1894 – 16 June 1970) was an Australian rules footballer who played for the Melbourne Football Club in the Victorian Football League (VFL).[1]

Arthur Maskell
Personal information
Full name Arthur Thomas Maskell
Date of birth (1894-03-28)28 March 1894
Place of birth Tatura, Victoria
Date of death 16 June 1970(1970-06-16) (aged 76)
Place of death Heidelberg, Victoria
Original team(s) Leongatha
Height 177 cm (5 ft 10 in)
Weight 78 kg (172 lb)
Playing career1
Years Club Games (Goals)
1913 Melbourne 1 (0)
1 Playing statistics correct to the end of 1913.
Sources: AFL Tables, AustralianFootball.com

Family

The son of Arthur Maskell (1849-1917),[2] and Elizabeth Margaret Maskell (1856-1921), née Fuzzard,[3][4][5][6] Arthur Thomas Maskell was born at Tatura, Victoria on 28 March 1894.

He married Teresa Daphne Duggan (1894-1967) on 21 October 1916. They had three children: Edna Jean Maskell (b.1917), Kevin Joseph Maskell (b.1921), and Marie Teresa Maskell (b.1929).

Football

Recruited from Shepparton, he played on the half-back flank in his only senior VFL match for Melbourne, against University, at the MCG, on 28 June 1913, replacing the injured Norm McDougall.[7]

McDougall was fit enough to play in the following match, Maskell was "dropped", and the Herald's football correspondent noted that "Maskell Is not likely to play again with Melboune".[8]

Maskell returned to play in Shepparton's 1913 Goulburn Valley Football League's premiership. [9]

Notes
  1. Holmesby & Main (2009), p.556.
  2. Deaths: Maskell, (Saturday, 15 September 1917), p.5.
  3. Marriages: Maskell—Fuzzard, The Leader, (Saturday, 4 December 1875), p.25.
  4. Her father, John Hickey (1825-1856), died three months after her birth, and her mother Jane Hickey (1836-1912), née Colliver, remarried — to John Newman Fuzzard (1829-1909) — on 30 June 1857; consequently, by the time of her marriage to Arthur Maskell, she was known as "Elizabeth Margaret Fuzzard", rather than "Elizabeth Margaret Hickey".
  5. Deaths, The Age, (Wednesday, 29 June 1921), p.10.
  6. Obituary: Mrs. E.M. Maskell, The Shepparton Advertiser, (Thursday, 30 June 1921), p3.
  7. Melbourne (7.20) Beat University (7.11), The Age, (Monday, 30 June 1913), p.13.
  8. Play and Players, The Herald, (Friday, 4 July 1913), p.4.
  9. "1913 - Goulburn Valley FL: Shepparton again Premiers". Trove Newspapers. The Bendigo Independent (Vic). 25 September 1913. p. 6. Retrieved 10 January 2021.

References
  • Holmesby, Russell; Main, Jim (2009). The Encyclopedia of AFL Footballers: every AFL/VFL player since 1897 (8th ed.). Seaford, Victoria: BAS Publishing. ISBN 978-1-921496-00-4.
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