Jimmy Thurgood
Personal information
Full name James Alfred Thurgood
Date of birth (1876-06-21)21 June 1876
Place of birth Hotham, Victoria
Date of death 31 July 1946(1946-07-31) (aged 70)
Place of death Malvern, Victoria
Original team(s) Essendon District
Height 179 cm (5 ft 10 in)
Weight 73 kg (161 lb)
Playing career1
Years Club Games (Goals)
1897 Essendon 3 (2)
1 Playing statistics correct to the end of 1897.
Sources: AFL Tables, AustralianFootball.com

James Alfred Thurgood (21 June 1876 – 31 July 1946) was an Australian rules footballer who played with Essendon in the Victorian Football League (VFL).[1]

Family

The son of James Thurgood (1841-1923),[2] and Elizabeth Thurgood (1844-1894), née Weir,[3] James Alfred Thurgood was born in Hotham, now known as North Melbourne, Victoria on 21 June 1876.

He was the cousin of Essendon great Albert Thurgood.[4]

He married Ethel Dalkin (1876-1959) on 16 April 1908.[5][6]

Football

He made his debut for Essendon in the match against Fitzroy on 29 May 1897. He scored two goals, one of which "[was] a magnificent long angled shot, which fairly staggered the spectators".[7][8] His cousin, Albert Thurgood, who also played for Essendon, was described as the “first icon of football”.[9]

Death

He died at Malvern, Victoria on 31 July 1946.[10]

Notes

  1. ↑ Holmesby & Main (2014), p.884.
  2. ↑ Deaths: Thurgood, (Monday, 5 February 1923), p.1.
  3. ↑ Deaths: Thurgood, The Age, (Thursday, 1 November 1894), p.1.
  4. ↑ "FOOTBALL NOTES". The Australasian. Vol. LXII, no. 1627. Victoria, Australia. 5 June 1897. p. 19.
  5. ↑ Marriages: Thurgood—Dalkin, (Saturday, 16 May 1908), p.13.
  6. ↑ Deaths: Thurgood, The Age, (Friday, 10 July 1959), p.15.
  7. ↑ 'Follower', "The Football Season: A Day of Surprises: The League Matches", The Age, (Monday, 31 May 1897), p.6.
  8. ↑ "Young Thurgood, a cousin to Essendon's departed marksman, sustained the credit of the family name by kicking a brace of goals, one of them a singularly brilliant effort for a considerable distance, and at a very difficult angle": Markwell, "Football Notes", The Australasian, (Saturday, 5 June 1897), p.19.
  9. ↑ ”Albert Thurgood: The Champion of Champions,” AFL Record, 17 September, 2010, pp 38-42
  10. ↑ Deaths: Thurgood, The Argus, (Thursday, 1 August 1946), p.15.

References

  • Holmesby, Russell; Main, Jim (2014). The Encyclopedia of AFL Footballers: every AFL/VFL player since 1897 (10th ed.). Seaford, Victoria: BAS Publishing. ISBN 978-1-921496-32-5.
  • Maplestone, M., Flying Higher: History of the Essendon Football Club 1872–1996, Essendon Football Club, (Melbourne), 1996. ISBN 0-9591740-2-8


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