Ernie_McDougall

Ernie McDougall

Ernie McDougall

Australian rules footballer

Ernest James McDougall (28 September 1885 – 15 March 1963) was an Australian rules footballer who played with South Melbourne in the Victorian Football League (VFL).[2]

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A small player, he made his debut late in the 1902 season at the age of 16 and acquitted himself well.[3] He only played four games, all of them before his eighteenth birthday.

After his brief football career McDougall became a dentist, working in Melbourne for three years before moving to London. While in London, he enlisted to serve in the Australian Army Medical Corps in World War I in 1916[4] and he remained there after being discharged in 1919, working in a private dental practice.[5]

Notes

  1. [1]
    England & Wales, National Probate Calendar (Index of Wills and Administrations), 1858-1966
  2. [2]
    Holmesby, Russell; Main, Jim (2014). The Encyclopedia of AFL Footballers: every AFL/VFL player since 1897 (10th ed.). Seaford, Victoria: BAS Publishing. p. 574. ISBN 978-1-921496-32-5.
  3. [3]
    "FOOTBALL". Record. Vol. VII, no. 31. Victoria, Australia. 23 August 1902. p. 3.
  4. [4]
    "Discovering Anzacs: Ernest James McDougall". National Archives of Australia.
  5. [5]
    Cullen, Barbara (2015). Harder than football : league players at war. Richmond, Victoria: Slattery Media Group. p. 183. ISBN 978-0-992379-14-8.
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