Bill Luff Sr.

William John Luff (15 January 1886 – 6 September 1952) was a former Australian rules footballer who played with the Richmond in the Victorian Football League (VFL).[1]

Bill Luff
Luff in 1910
Personal information
Full name William John Luff
Date of birth (1886-01-15)15 January 1886
Place of birth Hawthorn, Victoria
Date of death 6 September 1952(1952-09-06) (aged 66)
Place of death Blackburn, Victoria
Original team(s) Richmond Imperials
Height 191 cm (6 ft 3 in)
Weight 73 kg (161 lb)
Playing career1
Years Club Games (Goals)
1908–10 Richmond 39 (0)
1 Playing statistics correct to the end of 1910.
Sources: AFL Tables, AustralianFootball.com

Family

The son of Richmond City Councillor, Charles Osborne Luff (1851-1922),[2] and Charlotte Luff (1854-1943), née Entwhistle,[3] William John Luff was born on 15 January 1886.

He married Sarah Ross (1888-1976) in 1909. Their son, William Norman Charles Luff, a.k.a. "Bill Luff" played with Camberwell in the VFA and, then, with Essendon in the VFL.

He died on 6 September 1952.[4]

Football

He was a "tall, lightly-built" half-back flanker, "who was a fine high mark [and] possessed sound judgement and a good football brain".[5]

Richmond (VFA)

Along with his brother Jim, Luff played for Richmond in the VFA competition from 1905 to 1907.

Richmond (VFL)

Richmond entered the VFL competition in 1908; and Luff played with 39 senior games for Richmond over three seasons (1908-1910). He was the first Richmond (VFL) footballer to represent Victoria — he played three games for Victoria in the Jubilee Australasian Football Carnival of 1908.

Prahran (VFA)

He transferred to Prahran in 1911.[6]

Beverley (MAFA)

In 1914, he was cleared from Prahran to the Beverley Football Club, in the Metropolitan Amateur Football Association.[7]

See also

Footnotes
  1. Holmesby & Main (2014), p.531.
  2. Deaths: Luff, The Age, (Wednesday, 10 May 1922), p.1; Deaths: Luff, The Age, (Saturday, 13 May 1922), p.11.
  3. Deaths: Luff, The Age, (Wednesday, 4 August 1943), p.6.
  4. Deaths: Luff, The Argus, (Monday, 8 September 1952), p.14; Deaths: Luff, The Argus, (Monday, 8 September 1952), p.7.
  5. Hogan (1996), p.128.
  6. Football: Victorian Association: Permits Granted, The Age, (Friday, 28 April 1911), p.10.
  7. Metropolitan Amateur Association, The Argus, (Saturday, 27 June 1914), p.22.

References
  • Hogan P: The Tigers Of Old, Richmond FC, (Melbourne), 1996. ISBN 0-646-18748-1
  • Holmesby, R. & Main, J., The Encyclopedia of AFL Footballers: every AFL/VFL player since 1897 (Tenth Edition), BAS Publishing, (Seaford, Victoria), 2014. ISBN 978-1-921496-32-5
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