Anthony Daly (footballer)

Anthony Joseph "Bos" Daly (9 January 1874 – 21 August 1942[1]) was an Australian rules footballer who played for the five teams in the South Australian Football Association (SAFA) between 1893 and 1912.[2]

Anthony "Bos" Daly
Personal information
Full name Anthony Joseph Daly
Nickname(s) Bos
Date of birth (1874-01-09)9 January 1874
Place of birth South Australia
Date of death 21 August 1942(1942-08-21) (aged 68)
Place of death Prospect, South Australia
Position(s) Full forward
Playing career
Years Club Games (Goals)
1893–1898 Norwood 073 (238)
1899 South Adelaide 016 0(32)
1900 West Torrens 014 0(28)
1901 West Adelaide 017 0(23)
1902–1909, 1912 North Adelaide 093 (235)
Total 213 (556)
Representative team honours
Years Team Games (Goals)
South Australia
Career highlights
  • 4x Norwood premiership player
  • 2x North Adelaide premiership player
  • South Adelaide premiership player
  • 7x SANFL leading goal kicker, 1893, 1894, 1895, 1899, 1900, 1903, 1905 (joint)
  • 7x Leading goal kicker for North Adelaide, 1902, 1903, 1904, 1905, 1906, 1907, 1912
  • 4x Leading goal kicker for Norwood, 1893, 1894, 1895, 1898
  • Leading goal kicker for South Adelaide, 1899
  • Leading goal kicker for West Adelaide, 1901
  • Most goals in a SANFL game (jointly with Ken Farmer), and in an elite Australian Rules football game (jointly with Farmer and Bernie Naylor) (23)

In 1893, whilst playing for Norwood, he set a record for the most goals kicked by a player in a single game of elite football, which has been equalled but remains unbeaten as of 2018. Daly kicked 23 of Norwood's 29 goals in a 27-goal win over Adelaide (unrelated to the modern-day AFL team). However, due to the visitors being unable to field a full team, the game was played with fourteen players per side instead of the normal twenty of the time.[3][4]

Daly kicked 88 goals for the season, including 49 against Adelaide (he kicked five (on debut), six, and fifteen goals in the other three matches), who dropped out of the SAFA and folded at the end of 1893. Daly's season total remained an elite football record until broken by Gordon Coventry in the VFL in 1927, and a South Australian record until broken by Ken Farmer in 1930.

He is the brother of John "Bunny" Daly, who was also inducted in the South Australian Football Hall of Fame.

References
  1. "Obituary". The Advertiser. LXXXV (26172). South Australia. 22 August 1942. p. 8. Retrieved 21 August 2016 – via National Library of Australia.
  2. Devaney, John. "Anthony "Bos" Daly". AustralianFootball.com.
  3. "Football". South Australian Register. Adelaide: National Library of Australia. 11 September 1893. p. 7. Retrieved 26 November 2014.
  4. "WHEN DALY KICKED 23 GLS". The News. Adelaide: National Library of Australia. 26 May 1945. p. 5. Retrieved 26 November 2014.


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