Godfrey McRae

Godfrey McRae
Godfrey McRae
Personal information
Full name	Godfrey Kilgour McRae
Date of birth	17 July 1906
Place of birth	Broadford, Victoria
Date of death	21 March 1979 (aged 72)
Place of death	Mount Waverley, Victoria
Height	182 cm (6 ft 0 in)
Playing career1
	1 Playing statistics correct to the end of 1927.
	Sources: AFL Tables, AustralianFootball.com

Last updated April 04, 2019

Godfrey Kilgour McRae (17 July 1906 – 21 March 1979) was an Australian rules footballer who played with Hawthorn in the Victorian Football League (VFL).^[1]

Australian rules football, officially known as Australian football, or simply called Aussie rules, football or footy, is a contact sport played between two teams of eighteen players on an oval-shaped field, often a modified cricket ground. Points are scored by kicking the oval-shaped ball between goal posts or between behind posts.

The Hawthorn Football Club, nicknamed the Hawks, is a professional Australian rules football club in the Australian Football League (AFL). The club, founded in 1902, is the youngest of the Victorian-based teams in the AFL and has won thirteen VFL/AFL premierships. It is renowned as the only club having won premierships in each decade of the 1960s, 1970s, 1980s, 1990s, 2000s and 2010s. The team play in brown and gold vertically striped guernseys. The club's Latin motto is spectemur agendo, the English translation being "Let us be judged by our acts".

The Australian Football League (AFL) is the pre-eminent professional competition of Australian rules football. Through the AFL Commission, the AFL also serves as the sport's governing body, and is responsible for controlling the laws of the game. The league was founded as the Victorian Football League (VFL) as a breakaway from the previous Victorian Football Association (VFA), with its inaugural season commencing in 1897. Originally comprising only teams based in the Australian state of Victoria, the competition's name was changed to the Australian Football League for the 1990 season, after expanding to other states throughout the 1980s.

Notes

↑ Holmesby, Russell; Main, Jim (2014). The Encyclopedia of AFL Footballers: every AFL/VFL player since 1897 (10th ed.). Melbourne, Victoria: Bas Publishing. p. 599. ISBN 978-1-921496-32-5 .

External links

Godfrey McRae's playing statistics from AFL Tables
Godfrey McRae at AustralianFootball.com

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[1] Holmesby, Russell; Main, Jim (2014). The Encyclopedia of AFL Footballers: every AFL/VFL player since 1897 (10th ed.). Melbourne, Victoria: Bas Publishing. p. 599. ISBN 978-1-921496-32-5 .