Arthur Newbound

Arthur Richey Newbound (4 March 1886 – 31 August 1957) was an Australian rules footballer who played for the Fitzroy Football Club and St Kilda Football Club in the Victorian Football League (VFL).[1]

Arthur Newbound
Newbound in 1910
Personal information
Full name Arthur Richey Newbound
Date of birth (1886-03-04)4 March 1886
Place of birth Collingwood, Victoria
Date of death 31 August 1957(1957-08-31) (aged 71)
Place of death Prahran, Victoria
Playing career1
Years Club Games (Goals)
1909–1910 Fitzroy 24 (13)
1911 St Kilda 01 0(1)
Total 25 (14)
1 Playing statistics correct to the end of 1911.
Sources: AFL Tables, AustralianFootball.com

Football

Bribery scandal

While playing with Fitzroy, Newbound was one of the five Fitzroy players that gave evidence to a special VFL inquiry into the allegations, revealed in the press a week earlier, that they had been offered cash inducements, by an (otherwise unknown) individual, to play "dead" in the 3 September 1910 match against South Melbourne, the result of which was vital for South Melbourne's final chances.[2][3]

As a result of the comprehensive VFL inquiry, wherein the South Melbourne delegate advised the Inquiry that the football club had no connection with the offer, and that extensive enquiries had failed to reveal the identity of those making (and those behind the making of) the offer, and in which the Fitzroy footballers George Holden, "Boxer" Milne, Jack Cooper, and Newbound all gave "privileged" evidence (in that they "need[ed] not fear [the] consequences" of doing so). (Bill Walker, whose evidence matched that of Holden's, was not required to attend in person.

The Inquiry exonerated all five Fitzroy players, and released the following press statement on 28 September:

""That after hearing the evidence of the Fitzroy players, the league find that they were approached with the offer of trivial sums of money by certain men unknown to them, and whose identity the league have no means of ascertaining. The league consider the players are to be commended for their action in the matter."[4]

St Kilda (VFL)

He played one First XVIII match for St Kilda, on 27 May 1911, against Melbourne, before being cleared to Fitzroy Juniors in July 1911.[5]

Essendon A (VFA)

Cleared from St Kilda to Essendon A in the VFA in May 1912.[6]

Northcote (VFA)

He was cleared from Essendon A to Northcote in May 1913.[7]

Death

He died at the Alfred Hospital in Prahran, Victoria on 31 August 1957.[8]

Notes
  1. Holmesby & Main (2014), p.653.
  2. New Football Scandal: Fitzroy Men Approached, The Argus, (Friday, 23 September 1910), p.7.
  3. "Bribery Scandal Hits League", p.75 in Ross (1996).
  4. Football Scandal: League Inquiry: The Fitzroy Match, The Argus, (Friday, 30 September 1910), p.8.
  5. Football, The Age, (Thursday, 6 July 1911), p.11.
  6. League Permits, The Age, (Thursday, 16 May 1912), p.14.
  7. Permits to Players: The Association, The Argus, (Thursday, 8 May 1913), p.4.
  8. Deaths: Newbound, The Age, (Monday, 2 September 1957), p.10.

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.
  • The Fitzroy Team, The Weekly Times, (Saturday, 15 May 1909), p.26.
  • Ross, J. (ed), 100 Years of Australian Football 1897–1996: The Complete Story of the AFL, All the Big Stories, All the Great Pictures, All the Champions, Every AFL Season Reported, Viking, (Ringwood), 1996. ISBN 0-670-86814-0
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