Des Negri

Desmond James Negri (15 November 1923 – 7 May 2003) was an Australian rules footballer who played with Collingwood and Richmond in the Victorian Football League (VFL).[1]

Des Negri
Negri in 1942
Personal information
Full name Desmond James Negri
Date of birth (1923-11-15)15 November 1923
Date of death 7 May 2003(2003-05-07) (aged 79)
Original team(s) East Melbourne CYMS / CBC Victoria Parade
Height 178 cm (5 ft 10 in)
Weight 76 kg (168 lb)
Playing career1
Years Club Games (Goals)
1942–45 Collingwood 30 (1)
1945 Richmond 2 (1)
Total 32 (2)
1 Playing statistics correct to the end of 1945.
Sources: AFL Tables, AustralianFootball.com

Family

The son of Angelo Monigatti Negri (1880-1940),[2][3][4] and Adelaide Negri (1892-1944), née Tiernan,[5][6] Desmond James Negri was born on 15 November 1923.

Handball

Given that CBC Parade was a Christian Brothers' college, handball was very strongly promoted among the students, driven by the Brothers' view that handball "affords an excellent preparatory training for football, as it calls into play all the resources of the physical man".[7] Handball is one of the best ways for a potential Australian Rules footballer to acquire the optimum level of hand–eye coordination, ambidexterity, smoothness and flexibility, and sense of where one is in time and space (e.g., St Kilda's Ted Terry was a schoolboy champion in Tasmania, and Collingwood's Bill Serong, also from CBC Parade, was the Australian handball champion in 1974, aged 38).

Like his older brother, the Collingwood footballer Francis Angelo Negri (1917-1944),[8] as a schoolboy, Negri excelled at handball,[9][10][11][12][13] and was the Australian Schoolboy Champion in 1939.[14]

Football

Collingwood (VFL)

Recruited from East Melbourne C.Y.M.S.,[15] he played with the Collingwood Second XVIII in 1941, and made his senior debut against Essendon, at Victoria Park, on 30 May 1942.

Richmond (VFL)

He was cleared from Collingwood to Richmond in June 1945;[16] and in 1945 he played two games for the Richmond First XVIII and 9 games for the Second XVIII.[17]

Coburg (VFA)

Cleared from Richmond on 21 May 1946,[18] he played in six First XVIII matches for Coburg in 1946. He injured his back and did not play for Coburg again.

Australs (NWQAFL)

By 1952 he was working in the Mount Isa mines in North West Queensland;[19] and, in 1958 he was the premiership-winning captain-coach of the Mount Isa-based Australs Football Club that competed in the North-Western Queensland Australian Football League.[17][20][21]

Notes
  1. Holmesby & Main (2014), p.651.
  2. Deaths: Negri, The Age, (Wednesday, 22 May 1940), p.1.
  3. Fireman Dies: Collapsed at Blaze, The Argus, (Wednesday, 22 May 1940), p.9.
  4. Fireman's Funeral, The Age, (Thursday, 23 May 1940), p.10.
  5. Marriages: Monigatti (Negri)—Tiernan, The Age, (Saturday, 9 October 1915), p.5.
  6. Deaths: Negri, Monday, 10 July 1944), p.10.
  7. St. Virgil's Annual, 1922, p.7.
  8. League Carnival: F. Negri Wins Singles, The Age, (Tuesday, 28 January 1936), p.6.
  9. Handball, The Advocate, (Thursday, 30 August 1934), p.23.
  10. Parade Wins Handball Premiership, The Argus, (Monday, 26 August 1935), p.10.
  11. Handball: Parade Wins Shield, The Age, (Tuesday, 25 August 1936), p.6.
  12. Amateur Handball Results, The Argus, (Monday, 13 December 1937), p.19.
  13. Champion Handball Team of the Associated Catholic Secondary Schools of Victoria, The Advocate, (Thursday, 1 September 1938), p.33.
  14. 'Ace', "Victorian Scoop Handball Titles", The Sporting Globe, (Wednesday, 12 April 1939), p.9.
  15. V.F.L. Permits, The Argus, (Thursday, 24 April 1941), p.12.
  16. Permits Granted, The Age, (Thursday, 7 June 1945), p.6.
  17. Hogan (1996), p.159.
  18. Transfers from Richmond, The Age, (Wednesday, 22 May 1946), p.8.
  19. Photograph, at Mimag, Vol.5, No.3, (March 1952), p.4.
  20. Australian Rules, Mimag, Vol.11 No.10, (October 1958), p.22.
  21. The Australs Football Club ceased to function in 1961, when the Mount Isa competition was abandoned due to "collateral damage" from an extended industrial dispute between miners and the Mount Isa Mines. The Mount Isa competition was revived in 1967, and the former Australs Football Club and the former Rovers Football Club combined to form the Irish Rovers Football Club, now known as the Mount Isa Rovers Australian Football Club. (see: History of the Rovers, Mount Isa Rovers AFC".

References
  • Hogan P: The Tigers Of Old, Richmond FC, (Melbourne), 1996. ISBN 0-646-18748-1
  • 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.
  • St. Virgil's Annual, St. Virgil's College, (Hobart), Christmas 1922.
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