George Kanngieser

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George Kanngieser
Kanngieser in 1935
Personal information
Full name George Frederick Kanngieser
Date of birth (1912-02-27)27 February 1912
Place of birth Collingwood, Victoria
Date of death 27 January 1997(1997-01-27) (aged 84)
Original team(s) Brunswick
Height 180 cm (5 ft 11 in)
Weight 76 kg (168 lb)
Playing career1
Years Club Games (Goals)
1935 Collingwood 1 (0)
1 Playing statistics correct to the end of 1935.
Sources: AFL Tables, AustralianFootball.com

George Frederick Kanngieser (27 February 1912 – 27 January 1997) was an Australian rules footballer who played with Collingwood in the Victorian Football League (VFL).[1]

Family[edit]

The son of Jonathan Anthony Kanngieser (1877-1952),[2] and Emily Letitia Kanngieser (1880-1916),[3] née Trinnear,[4] George Frederick Kanngieser was born in Collingwood on 27 February 1912. He married Mary Lorrane Cario Bennet in 1937.

Football[edit]

Promoted from the Collingwood Second XVIII, he played his only First XVIII match for Collingwood on 24 August 1935, against Melbourne.[5] Selected in the first ruck, in a drawn match — Collingwood 11.13 (79) to Melbourne's 10.19 (79) — "Kanngieser, for a newcomer, showed promise".[6]

He was cleared from Collingwood to Brunswick Football Club, in the Victorian Football Association (VFA) in 1937.[7] He played fifteen games there for two years, selected as an emergency for Brunswick in the 1938 grand final,[8] but was not part of the premiership team.[9]

Kanngieser was cleared from Brunswick to Preston Football Club, also in the VFA, in 1939,[10] where he played two games.[11]

Notes[edit]

  1. ^ Holmesby, Russell; Main, Jim (2014). The Encyclopedia of AFL Footballers: every AFL/VFL player since 1897 (10th ed.). Seaford, Victoria: BAS Publishing. p. 463. ISBN 978-1-921496-32-5.
  2. ^ Deaths: Kanngieser, The Age, (Monday, 29 September 1952), p.7.
  3. ^ Deaths: Kanngieser, The Argus, (Monday, 4 December 1916), p.1.
  4. ^ Marriages: Kanngieser—Trinnear, The Age, (Saturday, 8 May 1909), p.7.
  5. ^ Regan, Rumney, Froude Out, The Age, (Friday, 23 August 1935), p.9; League Teams: Collingwood, The Age, (Friday, 23 August 1935), p.9.
  6. ^ Melbourne's Great Finish: Drawn Game at Collingwood, The Age, (Monday, 26 August 1935), p.6.
  7. ^ Foster Cleared, The Argus, (Thursday, 8 April 1937), p.15.
  8. ^ Players in Grand Final, The (Melbourne) Herald, (Friday, 19 August 1938), p.18.
  9. ^ Geoff de Fraga (20 August 1938). "Brunswick hold lead". The Herald. p. 12.
  10. ^ Ryan and Kinnear, The Age, (Wednesday, 19 April 1939), p.8; From Forward's Notebook, The Age, (Friday, 21 April 1939), p.7.
  11. ^ "All Time Player List for Preston". Retrieved 17 February 2024.

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