Eric Poole (footballer)

Eric Poole (29 August 1903 – 23 February 1968) was an Australian rules footballer who played with South Melbourne in the Victorian Football League (VFL).[1]

Eric Poole
Personal information
Full name Eric Poole
Date of birth (1903-08-29)29 August 1903
Place of birth Sassafras, Tasmania
Date of death 23 February 1968(1968-02-23) (aged 64)
Place of death Preston, Victoria
Original team(s) Burnie (Tas)
Playing career1
Years Club Games (Goals)
1926 Camberwell (VFA) 05 (0)
1928–29 Yarraville (VFA) 21 (2)
1929 South Melbourne 04 (0)
1 Playing statistics correct to the end of 1929.
Sources: AFL Tables, AustralianFootball.com

Poole originally played with Burnie in Tasmania[2] before moving to Victoria to play with Collingwood.[3][4] He did not manage to break in to the senior team and in the middle of the season was granted a permit to move to Camberwell in the Victorian Football Association.[5]

In 1928 he moved to Yarraville Football Club and after a successful 1928 season was recruited by South Melbourne.[6] He played four VFL games before dropping out of the South Melbourne team and he subsequently returned to Yarraville before the end of the season.

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. 712. ISBN 978-1-921496-32-5.
  2. "FOOTBALL". The Advocate. Tasmania, Australia. 12 March 1926. p. 3.
  3. "FOOTBALL". The Advocate. Tasmania, Australia. 1 May 1926. p. 3.
  4. "FOOTBALL". The Argus. No. 24, 874. Victoria, Australia. 30 April 1926. p. 5.
  5. "FOOTBALL". The Age. No. 22, 227. Victoria, Australia. 1 July 1926. p. 7.
  6. "1929 - Melbourne's ruck tells". Trove Newspapers. Sporting Globe (Melbourne, Vic). 27 April 1929. p. 1. Retrieved 9 December 2020.

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