Jack Roberts (footballer, born 1867)

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Jack Roberts
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Roberts during his Carlton career
Personal information
Full name John Alexander Roberts
Date of birth(1867-01-02)2 January 1867
Place of birth Scarsdale, Victoria
Date of death 5 August 1921(1921-08-05) (aged 54)
Place of death Abbotsford, Victoria
Position(s) Wingman, defender
Playing career1
YearsClubGames (Goals)
1897–99 Carlton 24 (2)
1 Playing statistics correct to the end of 1899.
Sources: AFL Tables, AustralianFootball.com

John Alexander Roberts (2 January 1867 – 5 August 1921) was an Australian rules footballer who played with Carlton in the Victorian Football League (VFL). [1]

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Carlton Football Club Australian rules football club

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Family

The son of William Roberts (1835-1924), [2] and Jenefer Roberts (-1903), [3] née Trahair, John Alexander Roberts was born at Scarsdale, near Ballarat, Victoria on 2 January 1867.

Scarsdale, Victoria Town in Victoria, Australia

Scarsdale is a small town in rural Victoria, Australia, and approximately 25km south west of Ballarat, with a few community facilities including a primary school and a kindergarten. It is situated in the north-western part of Golden Plains Shire, and is primarily an agricultural community.

He married Annie Beatrice Knoll (1873-1956) in 1893. [4] They had four children, Lillian Beatrice Laxton, née Roberts (1894-1980), Archibald John Roberts (1897-1967), Vivian Ernest Roberts (1902-1968), and Dorothy Emily Power, née Roberts (1899-). He was the father-in-law of Charlie Laxton, who married Lily in 1917. [5]

Charlie Laxton Australian rules footballer

Charles Frederick Laxton was an Australian rules footballer who played for Collingwood in the VFL.

Death

He died on 5 August 1921. He had "caught a chill" when attending the match between Collingwood and Essendon at Victoria Park on 30 July 1921. The "chill" developed into the double pneumonia from which he died. [6] [7]

Collingwood Football Club Australian rules football club

The Collingwood Football Club, nicknamed the Magpies or colloquially the Pies, is a professional Australian rules football club playing in the Australian Football League (AFL). Formed in 1892 in the then-working class Melbourne suburb of Collingwood, the club played in the Victorian Football Association (VFA) before joining seven other teams in 1896 to found the breakaway Victorian Football League. Originally based at Victoria Park, Collingwood now plays its home games at the Melbourne Cricket Ground with its training and administrative headquarters located at Olympic Park Oval and the Holden Centre.

Essendon Football Club Australian rules football club

The Essendon Football Club, nicknamed the Bombers, is a professional Australian rules football club that plays in the Australian Football League (AFL), the sport's premier competition. Thought to have formed in 1872, the club played its first recorded game on 7 June 1873 against a Carlton Second 20, winning 1 goal to nil. The club played a senior club in the Victorian Football Association in 1878, one year after the VFA formed. It is historically associated with Essendon, a suburb in the north-west of Melbourne, Victoria. Since 2013, the club has been headquartered at The Hangar, Melbourne Airport, and plays its home games at either Docklands Stadium or the Melbourne Cricket Ground; throughout most of its history the club's home ground and headquarters was Windy Hill, Essendon, where it played from 1922 until 1991. While it stopped playing games at the ground thereafter, Windy Hill remained its training and administration base until the end of 2013. Dyson Heppell is the current team captain.

Victoria Park, Melbourne football stadium in Melbourne, Australia

Victoria Park is a sports venue in Abbotsford, a suburb of Melbourne in Victoria, Australia. Built for the purpose of both Australian rules football and cricket, the stadium is oval shaped. Victoria Park has also been home to a cycling track, tennis courts and a baseball club that once played as a curtain raiser to football matches.

Notes

  1. ↑ Holmesby & Main (2009), p.710.
  2. ↑ Deaths: Roberts, The Ballarat Star, (Saturday, 16 August 1924), p.4.
  3. ↑ Deaths: Roberts, The Ballarat Star, (Wednesday, 11 November 1903), p.5.
  4. ↑ Deaths: Roberts, The Argus, (Friday, 10 August 1956), p.12.
  5. ↑ Football: Victoria vs. N.S.W., The (Melbourne) Herald, (Saturday, 6 August 1921), p.3.
  6. ↑ Death of J. Roberts, The Australasian, (Saturday, 13 August 1921), p.25.
  7. ↑ Deaths: Roberts, The Argus, (Saturday, 6 August 1921) p.11.

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