Harry Saunders

For other people named Harry Saunders, see Harry Saunders (disambiguation).

Harry Saunders
Personal information
Date of birth	21 May 1898
Date of death	9 December 1930(1930-12-09) (aged 32)
Original team(s)	Collingwood Senior Cadets
Debut	Round 4, 1916, Collingwood v. Richmond, at Victoria Park
Height/Weight	175 cm / 76 kg
Playing career¹
Years	Club	Games (Goals)
1916-1926	Collingwood	135 (10)
Coaching career
Years	Club	Games (W–L–D)
1926	Footscray	10 (3-7-0)
¹ Playing statistics correct to end of 1926 season.

Henry George 'Harry' Saunders (21 May 1898 – 9 December 1930)^[1] was an Australian rules footballer who played for Collingwood and coached Footscray in the Victorian Football League (VFL).

Saunders was recruited locally to Collingwood and went on to play 11 seasons with the club as a defender, mostly at full-back. He was a member of Collingwood premiership teams in 1917 and 1919 as well as playing in three losing Grand Finals. Saunders also represented the VFL at interstate football on three occasions.

He met with controversy in 1922 following a game where he had pole axed Carlton's Alex Duncan. Suspended for the next six games, Saunder was also penalised by the police who fined him £5.

After playing the opening two rounds of the 1926 season, Saunders crossed to Footscray and although he didn't take the field for his new club he coached them in 10 games that year for three wins.

Saunders died in 1930 from pancreatitis, aged 32.

References

↑ "Harry Saunders". Collingwood Forever. Retrieved 21 September 2014.

Holmesby, Russell and Main, Jim (2007). The Encyclopedia of AFL Footballers. 7th ed. Melbourne: Bas Publishing.

External links

Harry Saunders's statistics from AFL Tables
Harry Saunders's profile from AustralianFootball.com

Collingwood Football Club 1917 1919 VFL Premiers

Captain (1919): 18/14. McCarthy 3/2. Curtis 8/5. Drummond 10/6. Hughes 26/10. Lumsden 14/11. Laxton 27/12. Mutch 13. Lee 19/15. Pannam 20/16. Reynolds 17. (1917) McHale 23/18. Saunders

Coach: McHale

Coaches of the Footscray Football Club/Western Bulldogs

1925: McCarthy 1926: Saunders 1926: Cassidy 1927–1928: Scanlan 1929: Eason 1930: Hopkins 1931–1933: Cubbins 1934–1935: Morrison 1935–1937: Coventry 1937–1940: Kelly 1941–1942: Ware 1943–1946: Olliver 1947: Crowe 1948–1950: Olliver 1951–1957: Sutton 1951: McLaren 1952; 1953: Donald 1957–1966: Whitten 1959; 1960: Ryan 1961; 1962; 1964; 1966: Findlay 1967–1968: Sutton 1969–1971: Whitten 1972–1975: Rose 1976–1978: Goggin 1978–1979: McKenzie 1980–1982: Hart 1981: Goode 1982–1983: Hampshire 1984–1989: Malthouse 1990–1994: Wheeler 1994–1996: Joyce 1996–2002: Wallace 2002–2004: Rohde 2005–2011: Eade 2011: Williams 2012–2014: McCartney 2015–: Beveridge

Italics denote caretaker coach

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