This is a list of University Football Club players who made one or more appearance in the Victorian Football League. University competed in the VFL from 1908 until 1914.
Players are listed by the date of their VFL debut with the club. In cases of players debuting in the same game, they are listed alphabetically.
Order | Players are listed in order of debut |
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Seasons | Includes Melbourne only careers and spans from when a player was first listed with the club to their final year on the list |
Debut | Debuts are for VFL regular season and finals series matches only |
Games | Statistics are for VFL regular season and finals series matches only. |
Goals |
Order | Name | Seasons | Debut | Games | Goals |
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1 | Gilbert Barker | 1908 | round 1, 1908 | 6 | 2 |
2 | Frank Boynton | 1908–1910 | round 1, 1908 | 25 | 12 |
3 | Denby Browning | 1908–1910 | round 1, 1908 | 38 | 25 |
4 | Harry Cordner | 1908–1909 | round 1, 1908 | 29 | 7 |
5 | Edward Cordner | 1908–1912 | round 1, 1908 | 60 | 8 |
6 | Frank Crawford | 1908–1911 | round 1, 1908 | 36 | 0 |
7 | George Elliott | 1908–1913 | round 1, 1908 | 79 | 3 |
8 | Chris Fogarty | 1908–1910 | round 1, 1908 | 26 | 12 |
9 | Joe Fogarty | 1908 | round 1, 1908 | 5 | 1 |
10 | Tom Fogarty | 1908–1909 | round 1, 1908 | 19 | 5 |
11 | John Gray | 1908–1913 | round 1, 1908 | 85 | 3 |
12 | Ken Kendall | 1908 | round 1, 1908 | 1 | 0 |
13 | Edgar Kneen | 1908–1912 | round 1, 1908 | 46 | 48 |
14 | William Marshall | 1908 | round 1, 1908 | 11 | 0 |
15 | Alick Ogilvie | 1908–1909 | round 1, 1908 | 27 | 20 |
16 | Martin Ratz | 1908–1910 | round 1, 1908 | 42 | 52 |
17 | Lance Sleeman | 1908 | round 1, 1908 | 8 | 1 |
18 | Athol Tymms | 1908–1913 | round 1, 1908 | 60 | 29 |
19 | Norm Richards | 1908–1910 | round 2, 1908 | 46 | 5 |
20 | Leo Seward | 1908 | round 2, 1908 | 15 | 15 |
21 | Jack West | 1908–1910, 1912–1914 | round 3, 1908 | 71 | 17 |
22 | Ted Fleming | 1908 | round 4, 1908 | 1 | 0 |
23 | Mal Williams | 1908 | round 4, 1908 | 7 | 0 |
24 | Herbert Hurrey | 1908–1913 | round 6, 1908 | 101 | 29 |
25 | Jack Jones | 1908–1909, 1913 | round 6, 1908 | 40 | 3 |
26 | Albert Hartkopf | 1908–1911, 1914 | round 7, 1908 | 48 | 87 |
27 | John Laing | 1908 | round 7, 1908 | 2 | 0 |
28 | Mark Gardner | 1908–1909 | round 9, 1908 | 21 | 2 |
29 | Herbert Bowden | 1908 | round 10, 1908 | 8 | 5 |
30 | Arthur Gall | 1908 | round 10, 1908 | 2 | 0 |
31 | Frank Kirby | 1908 | round 16, 1908 | 1 | 0 |
32 | Jim Piper | 1908–1909 | round 18, 1908 | 2 | 0 |
33 | Alex Grant | 1909–1910 | round 1, 1909 | 2 | 0 |
34 | Frank Kerr | 1909–1911, 1913 | round 1, 1909 | 40 | 10 |
35 | Rupe Matthews | 1909–1911 | round 1, 1909 | 20 | 20 |
36 | Arthur Wilson | 1909–1911 | round 1, 1909 | 51 | 3 |
37 | Norman Yeo | 1909 | round 1, 1909 | 2 | 2 |
38 | Alex Robertson | 1909 | round 2, 1909 | 10 | 0 |
39 | Rupert Balfe | 1909, 1911 | round 3, 1909 | 7 | 2 |
40 | Norman Good | 1909 | round 3, 1909 | 4 | 0 |
41 | Frank Dossetor | 1909 | round 4, 1909 | 3 | 0 |
42 | Dave Greenham | 1909–1912 | round 9, 1909 | 51 | 9 |
43 | Jack Brake | 1909–1914 | round 10, 1909 | 81 | 21 |
44 | Simon Fraser | 1909 | round 11, 1909 | 2 | 0 |
45 | Hugh Boyd | 1909 | round 14, 1909 | 1 | 2 |
46 | Stan Martin | 1909–1914 | round 17, 1909 | 65 | 4 |
47 | Ron Larking | 1909 | round 18, 1909 | 1 | 0 |
48 | Tom O'Brien | 1909–1910 | round 18, 1909 | 3 | 3 |
Order | Name | Seasons | Debut | Games | Goals |
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49 | Keith Doig | 1910–1914 | round 1, 1910 | 44 | 15 |
50 | Bill Lyon | 1910–1911 | round 1, 1910 | 7 | 1 |
51 | Ken McLeod | 1910–1913 | round 1, 1910 | 54 | 33 |
52 | Arthur Hinman | 1910–1911 | round 3, 1910 | 24 | 1 |
53 | Pat Morrissey | 1910 | round 10, 1910 | 4 | 6 |
54 | George Anderson | 1911, 1913–1914 | round 1, 1911 | 20 | 1 |
55 | Harold Bennett | 1911 | round 1, 1911 | 17 | 2 |
56 | Alec Birrell | 1911 | round 1, 1911 | 1 | 0 |
57 | Allan McCracken | 1911–1912 | round 1, 1911 | 22 | 8 |
58 | Joe Shelley | 1911–1914 | round 1, 1911 | 23 | 11 |
59 | Vic Trood | 1911–1914 | round 1, 1911 | 41 | 8 |
60 | Robert Thompson | 1911, 1913 | round 3, 1911 | 14 | 6 |
61 | William Armstrong | 1911 | round 4, 1911 | 3 | 0 |
62 | Eric Woods | 1911–1914 | round 4, 1911 | 34 | 0 |
63 | Bill Denehy | 1911–1912 | round 5, 1911 | 21 | 0 |
64 | Frank Macky | 1911 | round 5, 1911 | 7 | 2 |
65 | Dave Cumming | 1911–1912 | round 6, 1911 | 21 | 34 |
66 | Bill Hinman | 1911, 1913–1914 | round 8, 1911 | 38 | 2 |
67 | Victor Hurley | 1911 | round 12, 1911 | 7 | 0 |
68 | Jim Nicholas | 1911 | round 12, 1911 | 1 | 0 |
69 | Reg McGillicuddy | 1911 | round 13, 1911 | 2 | 0 |
70 | Alan Tait | 1911 | round 16, 1911 | 1 | 0 |
71 | Ray Whitford | 1911 | round 16, 1911 | 3 | 0 |
72 | Clifton Tucker | 1911 | round 18, 1911 | 1 | 1 |
73 | Ramsay Anderson | 1912 | round 1, 1912 | 3 | 0 |
74 | Dick Gibbs | 1912–1914 | round 1, 1912 | 35 | 3 |
75 | Lester Kelly | 1912–1914 | round 1, 1912 | 40 | 0 |
76 | Leo Little | 1912–1913 | round 1, 1912 | 34 | 20 |
77 | Les Primrose | 1912–1913 | round 1, 1912 | 16 | 0 |
78 | Carl Willis | 1912–1914 | round 1, 1912 | 46 | 41 |
79 | Bill Walker | 1912–1913 | round 2, 1912 | 10 | 3 |
80 | Roy Park | 1912–1914 | round 4, 1912 | 44 | 111 |
81 | John Robinson | 1912 | round 4, 1912 | 1 | 0 |
82 | Arch Corbett | 1912–1913 | round 5, 1912 | 7 | 0 |
83 | Athol Milne | 1912–1913 | round 5, 1912 | 10 | 2 |
84 | Westmore Stephens | 1912–1914 | round 6, 1912 | 10 | 0 |
85 | Tommy Graham | 1912 | round 8, 1912 | 8 | 1 |
86 | Bruce Lang | 1912 | round 9, 1912 | 6 | 1 |
87 | John Nicholson | 1912 | round 9, 1912 | 1 | 0 |
88 | Jack Doubleday | 1912–1914 | round 11, 1912 | 36 | 17 |
89 | Bill McIlroy | 1913 | round 1, 1913 | 3 | 0 |
90 | Fred McIntosh | 1913–1914 | round 1, 1913 | 25 | 4 |
91 | Stan Neale | 1913–1914 | round 1, 1913 | 28 | 0 |
92 | Billy Newing | 1913 | round 1, 1913 | 5 | 5 |
93 | Ernie Atkins | 1913–1914 | round 5, 1913 | 23 | 7 |
94 | Wilfrid Heron | 1913–1914 | round 6, 1913 | 23 | 5 |
95 | Ashley Vines | 1913–1914 | round 13, 1913 | 17 | 0 |
96 | Norm Barker | 1913 | round 15, 1913 | 1 | 0 |
97 | Claude Bryan | 1914 | round 1, 1914 | 7 | 0 |
98 | Will Houghton | 1914 | round 1, 1914 | 2 | 0 |
99 | Leslie Marks | 1914 | round 1, 1914 | 14 | 13 |
100 | Percy Rodriguez | 1914 | round 1, 1914 | 17 | 1 |
101 | Heinrich Schrader | 1914 | round 1, 1914 | 13 | 4 |
102 | Cyril Seelenmeyer | 1914 | round 2, 1914 | 6 | 1 |
103 | Wally Don | 1914 | round 3, 1914 | 15 | 0 |
104 | Reuben Patton | 1914 | round 3, 1914 | 6 | 0 |
105 | Jim Houghton | 1914 | round 5, 1914 | 3 | 0 |
106 | Gerald Johnston | 1914 | round 6, 1914 | 11 | 0 |
107 | Cyril Steele | 1914 | round 6, 1914 | 1 | 0 |
108 | Howard Stafford | 1914 | round 8, 1914 | 5 | 2 |
109 | Frank Cameron | 1914 | round 9, 1914 | 8 | 0 |
110 | Bob Heatley | 1914 | round 14, 1914 | 4 | 0 |
111 | Adrian Farmer | 1914 | round 17, 1914 | 1 | 2 |
112 | Gordon Morrissey | 1914 | round 17, 1914 | 2 | 0 |
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