Sorting our the source of the V/AFL DOB will be hard, but we have a NAA immigration form and the headstone that both indicate that he used the 25th as his DOB. In my view that is enough to convince the AFL that it is the date he used - both an official form and a private record.
It might be...
Oliver G the Brisbane HSun notice has the date wrong. The Lions Hist Soc has the right one, with matching posts from his son Brad - 4 April, not 10 April 2024.
I'm thinking it's the same guy.
I've reached out to Gigs on bluesky if he's got any more info, being a Dogs fan/historian.
Date - born in a POW camp it could be date born vs date registered?
Rugby - it was a Lismore story - he may have said "footy" and the NSW bias in the reporter changed it...
Oldest confirmed: https://w.wiki/Ci4T
Oldest without a confirmed date of death: https://w.wiki/Ci4Z (including obviously death date missing ones)
Oldest without a confirmed date of death by club:
Carlton
Collingwood
Essendon
Fitzroy
Footscray
Geelong
Hawthorn
Melbourne
North...
Neeson is on this list of people over 80 without a date of deaths. Some, obviously are still alive. Others, are not, but hard to find. Here are the Hawthorn over 90s:
wd:Q19975141
Arch Robinson (VFA)
134
9 July 1890
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Alf Neeson
110
15 June 1914
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Jack Taylor
100
9...
There is nothing I can see in Ryerson, it may be that he had no next of kin or was estranged from them, so they may have had to wait 12 months? Is that a thing?
Curiously, upon googling his full name, Martin Bryant was charged with attempting to murder a man by that same name. The court...
Thanks for that. Wikidata/Wikipedia should always just reflect the truth, not be the setter of it. The "member of sports team" parameter is able to differentiate by league, and/or time, but those qualifiers aren't often used, and the queries I use don't account for it, so the VFA vs VFL is...
Still there. Both Lyle and his wife are still alive as of last year. Tarren has a locked profile, but might accept messages:
https://www.facebook.com/share/p/gzehYcVQfLN94CtW/
Just found the replay of the Hall of Fame In Memoriam tribute (hidden in an AFL360 episode S2024EP46). List of players featured. Appears to be in approximate recent to oldest death order:
Tom Grljusich
Ron Branton
John Todd
Ken Tierney (26 May 2024)
John Goold
John Beckwith
Bill Serong
Malcolm...
With Morris, unless I have missed some, or the data isn't correctly in WikiData, there have only been 3 Senior Richmond players die this year. Full list.
1965 was the deadliest year for the Tigers with 15 deaths. More recently, 2003, 2006, 2011 and 2016 each had 11 deaths.
Only 2 in 2022 and 3...
I once tried to work out Stephen Michael's games played, but night games were counted - after all they were "real" games, not pre-season back then in the 70s/80s.
Sometimes State games were counted too - because sometimes they happened on a weekend when the comp didn't get a bye.
The famous...
Graham Scott, a few games for St Kilda and Melbourne after many for South Freo died recently according to this notice and some messages in the South Freo Facebook group
I think Collingwood's oldest living player is now one of the 93 year olds: Dave Morgan, Ron McKenzie or Arthur Gooch, none of who we seem to have ever researched here.
There are no known DODs for the almost sesquicentenarians George Lockwood and Tom Lee. Frank Corby is almost 100, but has been...
Based on that electoral roll info, parents married in 1925, mum died in 1959, dad in 1968.
Interesting that Dad didn't have Ferris on his marriage or electoral roll, but does in his death notice
Marriage:EVANS Nellie HUTCHINS, Mervyn 1925 10866/1925
HUTCHINS Mervyn Ferris Death notice 14AUG1968...
My oldest living (actually "no death date" than confirmed living) player lists from Wikidata, for those that prefer to work by team than league wide:
North Melbourne
Footscray
Other teams:
Carlton
Collingwood
* Essendon
Fitzroy
Geelong
Hawthorn
* Melbourne
St Kilda
South...
This is the list of known deaths of Australian footballers with Wikipedia articles from June 2023 to May 2024. This is the code to retrieve the list from WikiData.
Separate lists for other years are found elsewhere in this thread:
From June 2017 to May 2018
From June 2018 to May 2019
From June...
As an example, the 2 that I found years ago with "US style" birthdate mixups are
Player
AFL Tables DOB
AustralianFootball DOB
Other DOB
WikiPedia/WikiData DOB
Peter Warburton (footballer) (Carlton)
3 Sep 1951
3 Sep 1951
9 Mar 1951 (Blueseum)
3 Sep 1951
Frank Hodgins (Geelong)
4 May 1888
5...
The benefit of the tables is it's a bit more of a direct link to the articles. I updated most of them last night, didn't that that long.
The problem with the birthdate mixups is working out which version is actually correct. Could be any of the versions in any of the sources. Often they all are...
Randomly checking from that list, I found Dick Jones, East Freo, South Melbourne, Glenelg & West Torrens, died in 2013. Ryerson & cemetery records confirm.
Forgot that page exists! All of the links to the sources should still work, so ignore the tables (or update them yourself if you know how) and just use those links.
We often hear about a player being the "oldest living premiership player" or other similar "last player alive". But I've often thought about the opposite: what is the oldest game (or team, or grand final winning team) that is still complete - all 20/21/22 players are still alive - or even...
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