Joe Ritchie (footballer)

Joseph Duncan Ritchie (26 September 1886 – 24 May 1975) was an Australian rules footballer who played with St Kilda in the Victorian Football League (VFL).[1]

Joe Ritchie
Personal information
Full name Joseph Duncan Ritchie
Date of birth (1886-09-26)26 September 1886
Place of birth Numurkah, Victoria
Date of death 24 May 1975(1975-05-24) (aged 88)
Place of death Henty, New South Wales
Original team(s) Numurkah, Drumanure
Playing career1
Years Club Games (Goals)
1909 St Kilda 7 (3)
1 Playing statistics correct to the end of 1909.
Sources: AFL Tables, AustralianFootball.com

Family

The son of Joseph Duncan Ritchie (1848-1922),[2] and Mary Jane Ritchie (1855-1937), née Tawse,[3][4] Joseph Duncan Ritchie was born in Numurkah on 26 September 1886.

He married Alice May Coles (1893-1975) in 1917.

Football

Ritchie was recruited from the Drumanure Football Club,[5] in the Goulburn Valley Football Association (GVFA), after he was best on ground in Drumanure's 1908 GVFA grand final win against the Muckatah Football Club.[6][7].

Notes
  1. Holmesby, Russell; Main, Jim (2014). The Encyclopedia of AFL Footballers: every AFL/VFL player since 1897 (10th ed.). Seaford, Victoria: BAS Publishing. p. 752. ISBN 978-1-921496-32-5.
  2. Deaths: Ritchie, The Numurkah Leader, (Wednesday, 11 October 1922), p.2.
  3. Deaths: Ritchie, The Numurkah Leader, (Tuesday, 27 April 1937), p.2.
  4. About People: Obituary, The Numurkah Leader, (Tuesday, 27 April 1937), p.3.
  5. Drumanure Football Club, at australianfo0tball.com'.
  6. Muckatah Football Club, at australianfo0tball.com'.
  7. "1908 - Goulburn Valley FA - Grand Final match review". Trove Newspapers. Cobram Courier. Retrieved 30 April 2020.
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