Stan Anderson (Australian footballer)

Richard Stanley Anderson (26 July 1893 – 15 August 1953) was an Australian rules footballer who played with the Williamstown Football Club in the Victorian Football Association (VFA) and with Essendon in the Victorian Football League (VFL).[2]

Stan Anderson
Personal information
Full name Richard Stanley Anderson
Nickname(s) Plugger[1]
Date of birth (1893-07-26)26 July 1893
Place of birth Queenscliff, Victoria
Date of death 15 August 1953(1953-08-15) (aged 60)
Place of death Middle Park, Victoria
Original team(s) Williamstown
Height 178 cm (5 ft 10 in)
Weight 77 kg (170 lb)
Playing career1
Years Club Games (Goals)
1919 Essendon 1 (0)
1 Playing statistics correct to the end of 1919.
Sources: AFL Tables, AustralianFootball.com

Family

The son of Robert Anderson (1855-1939), and Sarah Ann Anderson (1869-1955), née Hutchins (later Mrs. Peter Stephens),[3] Richard Stanley Anderson was born at Queenscliff, Victoria on 26 July 1893.

He married Doris Elizabeth Ryan (1891-1969) in 1938.[4]

Military service

He served in the First AIF, suffering severe shell shock after being buried alive in an explosion in France in August 1916.[5] He spent 128 days in hospital but later returned to active service before being discharged in April 1917.[6]

Football

Williamstown (VFA)

He played 45 games (scoring 2 goals) for the Williamstown Football Club over three seasons (1913 to 1915).[7]

Essendon VFL

His only senior match for the Essendon Football Club, was against Fitzroy, at the Brunswick Street Oval on 17 May 1919.

Williamstown (VFA)

He was cleared from Essendon to the Williamstown Football Club in June 1919,[8] and went on to play a further 24 senior games (scoring 2 goals) over three seasons (1919 to 1921).[9]

Death

He died at Middle Park, Victoria on 15 August 1953.[10]

Notes
  1. In 1919, the Williamstown Chronicle's football correspondent, "Fair Dinkum", noted that, in the (9 August 1919) match against Brunswick, ""Plugger" Anderson, [playing at] half-back, acted up to his nickname to perfection. He plods along all day doing his bit." (Football Notes, The Williamstown Chronicle, (Saturday, 16 August 1919), p.3.
  2. Holmesby & Main (2014), p.21.
  3. Deaths: Stephens, The Argus, (Monday,7 February 1955), p.15.
  4. Victuallers' Licenses, The Argus, (Thursday, 14 January 1954), p.12.
  5. Cullen (2015), p.111.
  6. Service Record.
  7. Richard S. Anderson, at The VFA Project.
  8. Football: League Permits, The Argus, (Thursday, 19 June 1919), p.5.
  9. The VFA Project.
  10. Funeral Notices: Anderson, The Argus, (Monday, 17 August 1953), p.11.

References
  • First World War Embarkation Roll: Private Richard Stanley Anderson (3003), collection of the Australian War Memorial.
  • First World War Nominal Roll: Private Richard Stanley Anderson (3003), collection of the Australian War Memorial.
  • First World War Service Record: Private Richard Stanley Anderson (3003), National Archives of Australia.
  • Funeral Notices: Anderson, The Age, (Monday, 17 August 1953), p.8.
  • Cullen, Barbara (2015). Harder than football : league players at war. Richmond, Victoria: Slattery Media Group. ISBN 978-0-992379-14-8.
  • 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.
  • Maplestone, M., Flying Higher: History of the Essendon Football Club 1872–1996, Essendon Football Club, (Melbourne), 1996. ISBN 0-9591740-2-8 -- Note that Maplestone, pp.399, and 460 has Anderson as "S. R. Anderson".
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