Alf Tredinnick

Alfred Ernest Tredinnick (16 June 1873 – 19 May 1910)[1] was an Australian rules footballer who played for the Melbourne Football Club in the Victorian Football League (VFL).[2]

Alf Tredinnick
Personal information
Full name Alfred Ernest Tredinnick
Date of birth (1873-06-16)16 June 1873
Place of birth Campbells Creek, Victoria
Date of death 19 May 1910(1910-05-19) (aged 36)
Place of death East Melbourne, Victoria
Original team(s) Goldfields League
Height 174 cm (5 ft 9 in)
Position(s) Defender
Playing career1
Years Club Games (Goals)
1901 Melbourne 7 (1)
1 Playing statistics correct to the end of 1901.
Sources: AFL Tables, AustralianFootball.com

Tredinnick played football for Rovers Football Club in the Western Australian Football Association in 1898[3] before moving to the Goldfields Football Association and playing for Kalgoorlie from 1899 to 1900,[4] where he was an all-round sportsman who also played cricket and ran competitively as a sprinter.[5] He was an employee of the Western Australian Bank while living in Kalgoorlie, which meant he had to run under the assumed name "Alf Hall".[6]

He returned to Victoria in 1901 and played seven games for Melbourne in the Victorian Football League during that season. In 1902, he won the Stawell Gift, Australia's most prestigious running race.[5] Tredinnick died after a short illness in 1910; his obituary remembered him as "one of the best footballers and athletes in the Castlemaine district".[7]

Notes
  1. "Alf Tredinnick – Player Bio". Australian Football. Retrieved 18 December 2014.
  2. Holmesby, Russell; Main, Jim (2014). The Encyclopedia of AFL Footballers: every AFL/VFL player since 1897 (10th ed.). Melbourne, Victoria: Bas Publishing. p. 891. ISBN 978-1-921496-32-5.
  3. "Rovers v. East Fremantle". The Inquirer And Commercial News. LVIII (3, 190). Western Australia. 20 May 1898. p. 12.
  4. "Football Notes". The Evening Star. II (323). Kalgoorlie, Western Australia. 7 April 1899. p. 4.
  5. "Athletics". Kalgoorlie Western Argus. 15 April 1902. p. 38. Retrieved 1 September 2015.
  6. "Memories of Postle and Day Revived". The Mirror. 2 March 1935. p. 12. Retrieved 1 September 2015.
  7. "Obituary". Bendigo Advertiser. 23 May 1910. p. 5. Retrieved 1 September 2015.


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