Gus Dobrigh

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Gus Dobrigh
Personal information
Full name	Laurence A. (Gus) Dobrigh
Date of birth	11 February 1893
Original team	Trafalgar
Height/Weight	175 cm / 75 kg
Position(s)	Utility
Playing career¹
Years	Club	Games (Goals)
1914-21	Collingwood	88 (33)
¹ Playing statistics correct to end of 1921 season.

L.A. 'Gus' Dobrigh (born 11 February 1893) was an Australian rules footballer who played with Collingwood in the Victorian Football League (VFL).

A half forward flanker in Collingwood's 1917 premiership team, Dobrigh was also a three time losing Grand Finalist. He was suspended by his club in 1919 over a payment dispute, but there were incorrect rumours at the time that it was because he had been suspected of playing dead in a game. After finishing with Collingwood at the end of 1921, Dobrigh moved to Port Melbourne in the Victorian Football Association, where he captained the club to a premiership in 1922; he was again caught up in a bribery scandal, being offered and turning down a significant sum of money by former Footscray player Vern Banbury to play dead in the Grand Final.^[1]^[2] He finished his career at Preston, where he was their inaugural VFA captain-coach in 1926. He would later return to Port Melbourne once his playing days were over, as coach.

References

↑ "Football "Squaring" – serious allegations". The Argus (Melbourne, VIC). 25 September 1922. p. 11.
↑ "Victorian Football – the charge of bribery". The Mercury (Hobart, TAS). 28 October 1922. p. 7.

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

v t e Collingwood Football Club 1917 VFL Premiers

Collingwood 9.20 (74) defeated Fitzroy 5.9 (39), at the Melbourne Cricket Ground

Captain: 24. Wilson 1. Anderson 2. Brown 3. Curtis 7. Dobrigh 8. Drummond 9. Green 10. Hughes 14. Laxton 12. C. Lee 13. D. Lee 17. McHale 18. McCarthy 19. Pannam 20. Reynolds 23. Saunders 26. Lumsden 27. Mutch

Coach: McHale

Persondata
Name	Dobrigh, Gus
Alternative names
Short description	Australian rules footballer and coach
Date of birth	11 February 1893
Place of birth
Date of death
Place of death

This article is issued from Wikipedia. The text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution/Share Alike; additional terms may apply for the media files.