Elton Plummer

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Elton Plummer
Personal information
Date of birth	31 July 1914
Date of death	May 1988 (aged 73)
Original team	Preston
Debut	1934, Essendon
Height/Weight	175 cm / 72 kg
Playing career¹
Essendon (1934, 1936-44) 141 games, 1 goal
¹ Playing statistics correct to end of 1944 season.

Elton 'Duffy' Plummer (31 July 1914 - May 1988) was an Australian rules footballer who played with Essendon in the VFL during the 1930s and 1940s.

Essendon recruited Plummer, a back pocket specialist, from Preston. At one stage he played 98 consecutive games and was a member of Essendon's 1942 premiership team. He also played in their losing Grand Finals of 1941 and 1943. Plummer kicked just one goal in his career, against Collingwood at Victoria Park. In 1944, his final season, he coached Essendon for seven games with regular coach Dick Reynolds suffering from appendicitis and they won four of them.

References

Elton Plummer's statistics from AFL Tables
Holmesby, Russell and Main, Jim (2007). The Encyclopedia of AFL Footballers. 7th ed. Melbourne: Bas Publishing.
Ancestry

v t e Essendon Football Club 1942 VFL Premiers

Essendon 19.18 (132) defeated Richmond 11.13 (79), at Princes Park

Captain: 3. D. Reynolds 1. Coward 4. Exelby 5. Caesar 6. Hird 7. Hutchison 8. Plummer 10. Dearle 14. Leehane 15. Buttsworth 19. Cassin 20. Torney 21. Ruddell 22. Lane 25. Abbott 28. Silk 29. T. Reynolds 30. Flanigan 35. Bushby

Coach: D. Reynolds

v t e Coaches of the Essendon Football Club

1908–1909: Smith 1910: Belcher 1911–1915; 1918–1920:* Worrall 1920–1921: Ogden 1922: Gravenall 1922–1924: Barker 1925–1927: Maher 1928–1930: Hardy 1931–1933: Campbell 1934–1935: May 1936–1939: Baggott 1939: Reynolds/Hunter 1939–1960: Reynolds 1941: Griggs 1944: Plummer 1945; 1946: Ruddell 1959: Thaw 1961–1967: Coleman 1965: Sewell 1968–1970: Clarke 1971: Birt 1972–1975: Tuddenham 1976–1977: Stephen 1978–1980: Davis 1981–2007: Sheedy 2006: O'Donnell 2008–2010: Knights 2011–2013: Hird 2013: Goodwin 2014: Thompson 2015-: Hird

Essendon did not participate in the VFL from 1916–1917 due to World War I Italics* denote caretaker coach

Persondata
Name	Plummer, Elton
Alternative names
Short description	Australian rules footballer and coach
Date of birth	31 July 1914
Place of birth
Date of death	May 1988
Place of death

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