Claude Curtin

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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 183 cm (6 ft 0 in)
Weight 83 kg (183 lb)
Playing career1
YearsClubGames (Goals)
1939–1947 Fitzroy 91 (268)
1948 North Melbourne 04 00(7)
1949 Fitzroy 02 00(1)
Total97 (276)
1 Playing statistics correct to the end of 1949.
Sources: AFL Tables, AustralianFootball.com

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. His grandson is former Hawthorn player and Carlton coach John Barker

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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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