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Victoria v Rest of Australia
Sunday 24th January 1943 |
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Name |
Louis “Lou” Joseph Daily |
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Name & Club as per original list Football Life Sept. 1969 |
Daley (Geelong and Subiaco) | |
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Service Number |
WX8778 | |
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Born |
31/01/1911 | |
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Died |
29/08/1974 (63 Years) |
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Club |
League |
Games |
Goals |
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West Australian Football League Victorian Football League Victorian Football League Goldfields Football League |
92 7 19 TBC |
18 7 28 TBC |
Victoria versus Rest of Australia Match Stats.
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Team |
Rest of Australia (Captain) |
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Age on Game Day |
32 Years |
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Goals |
One |
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Awards |
The Little (Bore Hole) Trophy donated by Corporal J. Little, Australian Army Corps for Best Player for ‘The Rest of Australia (Changi Brownlow p359) |
Player Information and References
| WWII Nominal Roll WA Football Hall of Fame 2/4th Machine Gun Battalion Profile This contains many details about Lou’s service, his time as a POW including ending up in slave conditions in the copper mines in Niihama in Japan AFL Tables Profile for Lou’s time at Collingwood and Geelong Subiaco playing statistics Subiaco Best and Fairest winner 1935,1936,1937 The Mirror (Perth) 19/10/1935 George Baily wins the Sandover medal in a tie with George Krepp The Daily News (Perth) 22/09/1945 Confirms Lou’s return to Perth The Sporting Globe 13/10/1945 Mentions Lou trying to place a bet on the final of the first football competition in Changi Lou Daily moved back to Victoria after his playing days. Profile piece on Lou discussing his playing days and later move to Vic. Ancestry: When Louis Joseph Daily was born on January 31, 1911, in Perth, Western Australia, Australia, his father, Farquhar, was 38 and his mother, Agnes, was 34. He had two sons with Sarah Catherine MacDonnell. He died on August 29, 1974, in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia, at the age of 63. |