Jack Doubleday | |||
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Personal information | |||
Full name | Jack Lindsay Doubleday | ||
Date of birth | 28 May 1890 | ||
Date of death | 30 October 1918 | (aged 28)||
Place of death | Indian Ocean | ||
Original team | Wesley College | ||
Club information | |||
Current club | Retired | ||
Number | Uni – 1912: 9, 1913: 22 Melb – 27 |
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Playing career1 | |||
Years | Club | Games (Goals) | |
1912–14 1915 Total |
University Melbourne |
36 (17) 7 (4) 43 (21) |
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1 Playing statistics to end of 1915 season .
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Jack Lindsay Doubleday (28 May 1890 – 30 October 1918) was an Australian rules footballer who played with University and Melbourne in the Victorian Football League. A dentist, Doubleday enrolled in the Australian Army Medical Corps, but he died of influenza on his way to the Western Front in 1918, and was buried at sea.[1]