Claude Curtin

Claude Curtin
Personal information
Full name Claude Frederick Curtin[1]
Date of birth 4 July 1920
Place of birth Brunswick, Victoria
Date of death 13 December 1994(1994-12-13) (aged 74)
Original team(s) Fitzroy CYMS
Height/Weight 183 cm / 83 kg
Playing career1
Years Club Games (Goals)
1939–1947
1948
1949
Total		 Fitzroy
North Melbourne
Fitzroy		 91 (268)
04 00(7)
02 00(1)
97 (276)
1 Playing statistics correct to end of 1949 season.

Claude Frederick Curtin (4 July 1920 – 13 December 1994)[2][3] was an Australian rules footballer who played with Fitzroy in the VFL.

A full-forward, Curtin was the nephew of former Australian Prime Minister John Curtin.[4] He kicked over fifty goals in a season on four separate occasions, from 1940 to 1942 and in 1946. In each of those seasons he topped Fitzroy's goalkicking. He would have been a member of the club's 1944 premiership side had he not be away on war service.

References

  1. ↑ "WW2 Nominal Roll". Australian Government.
  2. ↑ "Claude Curtin - Player Bio". Australian Football. Retrieved 10 December 2014.
  3. ↑ Gray, Darren (18 December 1994). "(For the Record)". The Age. p. 16. Retrieved 24 January 2011.
  4. ↑ Skulley, Mark (6 February 1992). "TRUE-BLUE PARTY FAITHFUL AWAIT HAWKE SUCCESSOR". The Sydney Morning Herald. p. 6. Retrieved 24 January 2011.

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