Alex Duncan
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| Personal information | |
|---|---|
| Birth | February 26, 1900, |
| Recruited from | |
| Height and weight | 188cm, 87kg |
| Playing career¹ | |
| Debut | Round 1, 1921, Carlton vs. Richmond, at Punt Road |
| Team(s) | Carlton (1921 – 1924, 1926 – 1930)
141 games, 88 goals |
| ¹ Statistics to end of 1930 season | |
| Career highlights | |
Alex Duncan is a former Australian rules footballer in the Australian Football League.
Duncan made his debut for the Carlton Football Club in Round 1 of the 1921 season. He retired from the game in 1930.
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[edit] "Duncan's match"
The encounter between Carlton and Collingwood Football Club at Victoria Park on Saturday, 25 June 1927, is one of the most famous games in AFL/VFL history; and is remembered as "Duncan's Match".[1]
Playing at centre-halfback, Duncan dominated the game as, perhaps, no other player before or since.[2]
He took at least 33 marks (some claim he had taken as many as 45[3]); and his beautiful drop-kicks on that day were as flawless as his marking.
Carlton won the match 14.11 (95) to Collingwood's 13.5 (83).
Collingwood, a football club not generally known for magnanimous gestures towards its opponents, were so impressed with Duncan's outstanding performance (perhaps, even, a best of all time performance) that they had the match ball suitably mounted and inscribed and presented the trophy to Duncan.
[edit] Notes
- ^ [1]; Ross, (1996), p.124; Blueseum Game Review of Duncan's Match
- ^ Without in any way denigrating Duncan's performance on that day, it should be remembered that — ostensibly to reduce "the unseemly bullocking in the ruck at boundary throwins" (Ross, 1996, p.114) — the laws of the game had been altered in 1925 so that the last player to have touched the ball before it went out of bounds was penalized by the awarding of a free kick to the opposing team. This meant that, whilst this law was in operation (1925-?1939), much of the play was directed up the centre of the ground along the goal-to-goal line, and very little was directed along the flanks.
- ^ On 23 June 1951, in a drawn match between Fitzroy Football Club 12.13 (85) and South Melbourne 12.13 (85) which, although conducted under different "out of bounds rules", was played at the small, narrow Brunswick Street Oval in North Fitzroy, the 1949 Brownlow Medal winner, South Melbourne's Ron "Smokey" Clegg took 32 marks.
[edit] References
- Ross, J. (ed), 100 Years of Australian Football 1897-1996: The Complete Story of the AFL, All the Big Stories, All the Great Pictures, All the Champions, Every AFL Season Reported, Viking, (Ringwood), 1996. ISBN 0-670-86814-0
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