Ken McKernan

Ken McKernan
Ken McKernan
Personal information
Full name	Kenneth Ferguson McKernan
Date of birth	9 August 1911
Place of birth	Shepparton, Victoria
Date of death	September 2009 (age 98)
Place of death	Surfers Paradise, Queensland
Height	182 cm (6 ft 0 in)
Weight	79 kg (174 lb)
Playing career1
	1 Playing statistics correct to the end of 1935.
	Sources: AFL Tables, AustralianFootball.com

Last updated April 14, 2019

Kenneth Ferguson McKernan (9 August 1911 – September 2009) was an Australian rules footballer who played with North Melbourne 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 North Melbourne Football Club, nicknamed the Kangaroos or less formally the Roos, the Kangas or North, is the fourth oldest Australian rules football club in the Australian Football League (AFL) and is one of the oldest sporting clubs in Australia and the world. It is based at the Arden Street Oval in the inner Melbourne suburb of North Melbourne, Victoria, but plays its home matches at the nearby Docklands Stadium.

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.). Seaford, Victoria: BAS Publishing. p. 589. ISBN 978-1-921496-32-5.

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Ken McKernan at AustralianFootball.com

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[encyc-1] Holmesby, Russell; Main, Jim (2014). The Encyclopedia of AFL Footballers: every AFL/VFL player since 1897 (10th ed.). Seaford, Victoria: BAS Publishing. p. 589. ISBN 978-1-921496-32-5.