Lew Gough

Lewis James Gough (1 September 1903 – 26 December 1934) was an Australian Rules footballer who played with Hawthorn and Melbourne in the Victorian Football League (VFL).[1]

Lew Gough
Personal information
Full name Lewis James Gough
Date of birth (1903-09-01)1 September 1903
Place of birth Yarck, Victoria
Date of death 26 December 1934(1934-12-26) (aged 31)
Place of death Boronia, Victoria
Original team(s) Box Hill City
Height 187 cm (6 ft 2 in)
Weight 87 kg (192 lb)
Playing career1
Years Club Games (Goals)
1925, 1932 Hawthorn 12 (17)
1926–1929 Camberwell (VFA) 19 (28)
1930–1931 Melbourne 05 0(0)
1932–1933 Prahran (VFA) 14 (12)
Total 50 (57)
1 Playing statistics correct to the end of 1932.
Sources: AFL Tables, AustralianFootball.com

Family

The son of Lewis William Gough (1864–1928)[2] and Margaret Gough (1866–1956), nee Clinton, Lewis James Gough was born at Yarck on 1 September 1903.

In 1928 Gough married Ailsa Elizabeth Shand Murray (1908–1980) and they had a daughter (Helen) and son (John) together.

Football

Cleared from a Box Hill junior team to Hawthorn in June 1925, Gough played the last eight games of the VFL season.

Gough then spent the next four years in the VFA with Camberwell before joining Melbourne in 1930. He played a solitary match in his first season with Melbourne and then played four more games in 1931 when regular full back Bill Tymms took leave to go on his honeymoon.[3]

He was injured in his first match back at Hawthorn in 1932 but made three more appearances before he was cleared to VFA club Prahran midway through the season.[4]

Gough coached Prahran in the VFA 1933 but became ill later in the season[5] and was unable to continue as coach.

Death

Gough did not recover from his illness and he died at the age of 31 late the next year.[6] He is buried at Box Hill Cemetery.[7]

Notes
  1. Holmesby, Russell; Main, Jim (2009). The Encyclopedia of AFL Footballers: every AFL/VFL player since 1897 (8th ed.). Seaford, Victoria: BAS Publishing. p. 313. ISBN 978-1-921496-00-4.
  2. "Family Notices". The Argus. No. 25, 483. Victoria, Australia. 14 April 1928. p. 13.
  3. "Lew Gough". Demonwiki.
  4. "Permits". Football Record. State Library of Victoria. 2 July 1932. p. 30.
  5. "BENEFIT FOOTBALL". The Argus. 12 September 1933. p. 5.
  6. "Family Notices". The Argus. 27 December 1934. p. 1.
  7. "Lewis James Gough". Find a Grave.
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