Mick Pleass

George Victor "Mick" Pleass (12 November 1874 – 27 August 1925) was an Australian rules footballer who played with South Melbourne and Essendon in the VFA and Victorian Football League (VFL).[1]

Mick Pleass
Pleass in 1899
Personal information
Full name George Victor Pleass
Date of birth 12 November 1874
Place of birth Kent Town, South Australia
Date of death 27 August 1925(1925-08-27) (aged 50)
Place of death Boulder, Western Australia
Original team(s) South Melbourne (VFA)
Position(s) Follower
Playing career1
Years Club Games (Goals)
1896 South Melbourne (VFA) 19 (4)
1897–1904 South Melbourne (VFA) 109 (41)
1904 Essendon 4 (0)
Total 132 (45)
1 Playing statistics correct to the end of 1904.
Sources: AFL Tables, AustralianFootball.com

Football

Pleass was a follower and played his early football at South Melbourne when they were in the Victorian Football Association (VFA).

He participated in their inaugural VFL match and remained with the club until 1904 when he crossed to Essendon, after his transfer to play for Boulder in the Western Australian Goldfields was refused. During his career he represented Victoria at interstate football on three occasions.[2]

At the end of the 1899 season, in the process of naming his own "champion player", the football correspondent for The Argus ("Old Boy"), selected a team of the best players of the 1899 VFL competition:
Backs: Maurie Collins (Essendon), Bill Proudfoot (Collingwood), Peter Burns (Geelong); Halfbacks: Pat Hickey (Fitzroy), George Davidson (South Melbourne), Alf Wood (Melbourne); Centres: Fred Leach (Collingwood), Firth McCallum (Geelong), Harry Wright (Essendon); Wings: Charlie Pannam (Collingwood), Eddie Drohan (Fitzroy), Herb Howson (South Melbourne); Forwards: Bill Jackson (Essendon), Eddy James (Geelong), Charlie Colgan (South Melbourne); Ruck: Mick Pleass (South Melbourne), Frank Hailwood (Collingwood), Joe McShane (Geelong); Rovers: Dick Condon (Collingwood), Bill McSpeerin (Fitzroy), Teddy Rankin (Geelong).
From those he considered to be the three best players — that is, Condon, Hickey, and Pleass — he selected Pat Hickey as his "champion player" of the season. ('Old Boy', "Football: A Review of the Season", (Monday, 18 September 1899), p.6).

A ruckman, Pleass briefly gave the game away in 1902 to become a field umpire but returned to South Melbourne after officiating in a couple of games.[3]

Death

He died at the Kalgoorlie Government Hospital, in Boulder, Western Australia on 27 August 1925.[4][5][6][7][8]

See also

Notes
  1. "Obituary". Westralian Worker. Perth. 4 September 1925. p. 14. Retrieved 20 May 2015 – via National Library of Australia.
  2. Holmesby & Main (2007).
  3. "Past Player Profiles – P". essendonfc.com.au. Archived from the original on 6 July 2015. Retrieved 20 May 2015.
  4. Veteran Player Needs Help, The Australasian, (Saturday, 20 May 1922), p. 19.
  5. Funeral Notices: Pleasss, The Kalgoorlie Miner, (Friday, 28 August 1925), p. 4.
  6. Obituary, The Westralian Worker, (Friday, 4 September 1925), p. 14.
  7. Peeps at People, The (Perth) Sunday Times, (Sunday, 6 September 1925), p. 2.
  8. Deaths: Pleass, The Argus, (Tuesday, 8 September 1925), p. 1.

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