Phil Sullivan

Philip Gerard Sullivan (8 September 1903 – 15 February 1970) was an Australian rules footballer who played with Hawthorn in the Victorian Football League (VFL).[1]

Phil Sullivan
Personal information
Full name Philip Gerard Sullivan
Date of birth (1903-09-08)8 September 1903
Place of birth Ballarat East, Victoria
Date of death 15 February 1970(1970-02-15) (aged 66)
Place of death Caulfield, Victoria
Original team(s) St Arnaud
Height 184 cm (6 ft 0 in)
Weight 84 kg (185 lb)
Playing career1
Years Club Games (Goals)
1926 Hawthorn 7 (1)
1 Playing statistics correct to the end of 1926.
Sources: AFL Tables, AustralianFootball.com

Early life

The son of Phillip Edward Sullivan (1874–1932)[2] and Mary Gertrude Sullivan, née Goodman (1871–1905),[3] Philip Gerard Sullivan was born at Ballarat on 8 September 1903. His mother and younger sister both died when he was an infant, and he and his father moved to Geelong where his father remarried.

Football

Phil Sullivan joined Hawthorn at the start of the 1926 VFL season from St Arnaud.[4] He made his debut against South Melbourne in Round 10 and played seven of the final eight games of the season. He left Hawthorn to coach Somerville in the Mornington Peninsula league in 1927.[5]

Later life

Phil Sullivan married Rosa Carolina Kahl (1905–1947)[6] in 1928 and they had six children together. He worked for the railways and they lived in Ararat for about ten years before returning to Melbourne. Following his wife's death in 1947, Sullivan married Elizabeth Mary O'Leary (1908-2003) and had two more children.

Sullivan resided in Oakleigh until his death in 1970[7] and is buried at Springvale Botanical Cemetery.[8]

References
  1. Holmesby, Russell; Main, Jim (2014). The Encyclopedia of AFL Footballers: every AFL/VFL player since 1897 (10th ed.). Seaford, Victoria: BAS Publishing. ISBN 978-1-921496-32-5.
  2. "Family Notices". The Argus. No. 26946. Melbourne. 27 December 1932. p. 1.
  3. "OBITUARY". The Ballarat Star. Vol. 50, no. 15187. Ballarat. 9 January 1905. p. 2.
  4. "NOTES TROM THE CLUBS". The Argus. Melbourne. 3 April 1925. p. 6 – via National Library of Australia.
  5. "FOOTBALL". The Argus. Melbourne. 1 April 1927. p. 6.
  6. "Family Notices". The Age. No. 28776. Melbourne. 18 July 1947. p. 9.
  7. "AustralianFootball.com profile".
  8. "Philip Gerard Sullivan". Find a Grave.


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