George_Waterhouse_(footballer)

George Waterhouse (footballer)

George Waterhouse (footballer)

Australian rules footballer

George Waterhouse (4 February 1899 – 8 December 1931) was an Australian rules footballer who played with South Melbourne, Richmond and Fitzroy in the Victorian Football League (VFL) [1] as well as Geelong Association and Port Melbourne in the Victorian Football Association (VFA)[2]

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Waterhouse initially played for Horsham in 1922[3] before moving to Ballarat Imperial in 1923.[4] He was selected to represent the Ballarat League team that played Broken Hill in June[5] and shortly afterwards secured a permit to move to Geelong Association in the VFA.[6] Waterhouse played with Geelong Association until Round 1 of the 1925 season, after which he transferred to South Melbourne where he had been training.[7] He only managed two games with South and within two months had moved again, this time to Port Melbourne,[8] his third senior club in the one season.

In 1926 Waterhouse moved to Richmond[9] where he added seven more VFL games to his career total. In 1927 he played one further VFL game, this time with Fitzroy.

Notes

  1. [1]
    Holmesby, Russell; Main, Jim (2014). The Encyclopedia of AFL Footballers: every AFL/VFL player since 1897 (10th ed.). Melbourne, Victoria: Bas Publishing. p. 926. ISBN 978-1-921496-32-5.
  2. [2]
    "George Waterhouse". The VFA Project.
  3. [3]
    "Football". The Horsham Times. No. 6562. Victoria, Australia. 4 July 1922. p. 3.
  4. [4]
    "FOOTBALL". The Ballarat Star. No. 20532. Victoria, Australia. 5 June 1923. p. 2.
  5. [5]
    "Ballarat League v Broken Hill". Sporting Globe. No. 93. Victoria, Australia. 20 June 1923. p. 9.
  6. [6]
    "FINAL PERMITS". The Age. No. 21, 297. Victoria, Australia. 5 July 1923. p. 10.
  7. [7]
    "FOOTBALL". The Argus. No. 24, 569. Victoria, Australia. 7 May 1925. p. 5.
  8. [8]
    "Club Notes". The Argus. No. 24, 618. Victoria, Australia. 3 July 1925. p. 5.
  9. [9]
    "FOOTBALL". The Argus. No. 24, 873. Victoria, Australia. 29 April 1926. p. 18.


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