Angelo Congear
{{Short description|Australian rules footballer}}
{{Use dmy dates|date=February 2022}}
{{Use Australian English|date=October 2012}}
{{Infobox AFL biography
| name = Angelo Congear
| image =Angelo Congear 1912.jpg
| alt =
| caption = Congear in 1912
| fullname = Angelo Nicholas Goucar Congear
| nickname = Congy
| birth_date = 5 May 1885
| birth_place = Glanville, South Australia
| death_date = {{Death date and age|1986|08|09|1885|05|05|df=y}}{{Cite web|url=https://www.ancestry.co.uk/search/collections/1093/?name=_Congear|title=Congear - Public Member Photos & Scanned Documents - Ancestry.co.uk|website=www.ancestry.co.uk|accessdate=15 June 2023}}{{Cite web|url=https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:QVMZ-2YJT|title=FamilySearch.org|website=FamilySearch |accessdate=15 June 2023}}
| death_place =
| originalteam = Australs (1902–1906)
Semaphore Centrals (1908)
| height =
| weight =
| position = Rover
| years1 = 1908–1922
| club1 = {{AFL Por}}
| games_goals1 = 160 (222){{Cite web|url=https://www.portadelaidefc.com.au/club/history/hall-of-fame|title=Official AFL Website of the Port Adelaide Football Club|website=portadelaidefc.com.au|date=2 December 2019 |accessdate=15 June 2023}}
| sooyears1 = 1910–1919
| sooteam1 = South Australia
| soogames_goals1 = 15 (35){{cite web|url=http://australianfootball.com/players/player/angelo%2Bcongear/43|title=Angelo Congear|publisher=Australian Football.com|first=John|last=Devaney}}
| careerhighlights =
Club
- 3x Champions of Australia team member (1910, 1913, 1914)
- 4x Port Adelaide premiership player (1910, 1913, 1914, 1921)
- 2x {{AFL Por}} leading goal-kicker (1909, 1915)
Representative
- 15 games for South Australia
- 1911 Carnival series championship (South Australia)
}}
Angelo Nicholas Goucar Congear (5 May 1885 – 9 August 1986) was an Australian rules footballer who played for the Port Adelaide Football Club in the South Australian National Football League between 1908 and 1922.
Junior football (1902–1908)
Congear started playing football in 1902 with the Australs Football Club. In 1908 he started playing for Semaphore Centrals, an affiliate of the Port Adelaide Football Club who he would debut for later that year.{{cite news |url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article106622437 |title=Thirteen Seasons |newspaper=The Daily Herald |volume=XII |issue=3581 |location=Adelaide |date=9 September 1921 |access-date=10 November 2016 |page=7 |via=National Library of Australia}}
Port Adelaide (1908–1922)
Angelo Congear debuted in Port Adelaide's fifth match of the 1908 SAFL season against Norwood at Adelaide Oval. In front of a then record crowd of 25,000 at Adelaide Oval, Congear would kick a goal on debut but Port Adelaide would end up losing the match by 13 points.{{cite news |url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article56873119 |title=FOOTBALL. |newspaper=The Register (Adelaide) |volume=LXXIII |issue=19,211 |location=South Australia |date=9 June 1908 |access-date=19 November 2018 |page=8 |via=National Library of Australia}}
During his career at Port Adelaide he played in seven Grand finals and won three Championships of Australia.{{cite news |url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article106622437 |title=Thirteen Seasons. |newspaper=Daily Herald |location=Adelaide |date=9 September 1921 |access-date=26 November 2014 |page=7 |via=National Library of Australia}} Upon his induction into the Port Adelaide Football Club Hall of Fame he was listed as having played over 150 games.
A reporter for the Daily Herald of Adelaide considered him to be the best player during {{AFL Por}}'s 1914 Championship of Australia victory over Fitzroy.{{cite news |url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article105462667 |title=Ports V. Carlton |newspaper=Daily Herald |location=Adelaide |date=5 October 1914 |access-date=15 July 2015 |page=2 |via=National Library of Australia}}
Reputation
Angelo Congear was considered to be one of the finest rovers in South Australia in his era.{{cite news|url=http://www.news.com.au/national/great-games-top-recruits/story-e6frfkp9-1225756816531|title=Great game's top recruits|last=Rucci|first=Michelangelo|date=31 July 2009}}
Personal life
The Australian-born son of a Greek immigrant father from Kea, Cyclades Islands, Greece, John Angelo Congear, who migrated to Australia in 1861 and lived to be 101 years old.{{cite news|url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article132025428|title=Mr. J. A. Congear Dies, Aged 101.|date=12 October 1936|via=National Library of Australia|newspaper=The News|location=Adelaide|page=7|access-date=26 November 2014}} For work Congear would do manual labour on the Port Adelaide wharves, including on the mornings of days he played football.{{cite news|date=21 September 1922|title="Shine" Hosking's Reminiscenes|volume=LIX|page=6 (5 O'CLOCK EDITION SPORTS NUMBER)|newspaper=The Express and Telegraph|issue=17,744|location=South Australia|url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-page23144369|via=National Library of Australia|accessdate=20 September 2021}}
References
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{{Reflist}}
{{1910 Port Adelaide premiership players}}
{{1913 Port Adelaide premiership players}}
{{1914 Port Adelaide premiership players}}
{{1921 Port Adelaide premiership players}}
{{Port Adelaide leading goalkickers}}
{{1910 Championship of Australia}}
{{1913 Championship of Australia}}
{{1914 Championship of Australia}}
{{1911 South Australia State Football Team}}
{{1912 South Australia State Football Team}}
{{1913 South Australia State Football Team}}
{{1914 South Australia State Football Team}}
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Category:Australian men centenarians
Category:Australian rules footballers from South Australia
Category:Port Adelaide Football Club (SANFL) players
Category:Port Adelaide Football Club players (all competitions)
Category:South Australian Football Hall of Fame inductees