Clyde Donaldson
{{Short description|Australian rules footballer}}
{{Use dmy dates|date=September 2015}}
{{Use Australian English|date=September 2015}}
{{Infobox AFL biography
| name = Clyde Donaldson
| image =
| birth_date = 9 June 1894
| birth_place = Elsternwick, Victoria
| death_date = {{death date and age|1979|5|23|1894|6|9|df=yes}}
| death_place = St Kilda East, Victoria
| originalteam = Brunswick Juniors
| height = 185 cm
| weight = 76 kg
| position =
| statsend = 1926
| years1 = 1913–14, 1919–26
| club1 = Essendon
| games_goals1 = 144 (28)
| careerhighlights = * AIF Pioneer Exhibition Game, London,
28 October 1916
}}
Clyde Donaldson (9 June 1894 – 23 May 1979){{cite web|url=http://www.essendonfc.com.au/our-club/history/past-player-profiles/past-player-profiles---d|title=Past Player Profiles – D (Donaldson, Clyde)|publisher=essendonfc.com.au|accessdate=3 September 2014|url-status=dead|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20150706143409/http://www.essendonfc.com.au/our-club/history/past-player-profiles/past-player-profiles---d|archivedate=6 July 2015|df=dmy-all}} was an Australian rules footballer who played for Essendon in the Victorian Football League (VFL).
Family
The son of George Donaldson (1857-), and Louisa Emma Susanna Donaldson (1858-1932), née Seyler,[http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article8546765 Marriages: Donaldson—Seyler, The Argus, (Thursday, 9 August 1883), p.1.] Clyde Donaldson was born in Elsternwick, Victoria on 9 June 1894. His brother, Eric Donaldson played for St Kilda.
He married Edith Evelyn Happell (1895-1968) on 16 April 1921.[http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article1769774 Marriages: Donaldson—Happell, The Argus, (Saturday, 25 June 1921), p.13.] He married Daisy Evans (1905-1981) on 24 September 1969.
Football
=Essendon (VFL)=
After two seasons playing with Essendon, Donaldson's career was interrupted by World War I when he spent fours years overseas with the Australian Expeditionary Force.
Image:Australian Training Units Football Team (28 October 1916).tif
=Training Units team (AIF)=
While in London he took part in the famous "Pioneer Exhibition Game" of Australian Rules football, held in London, in October 1916, representing the Australian Training Units team. A news film was taken at the match.The original newsreel: {{YouTube | LuUjgJHLgdg | title= Australian Football (Pathé Newsreel, 1916)}}The 2019 remastered and colourised version of the original newsreel: {{YouTube | B88dBgC01YA | title= Australian Football (Pathé Newsreel, 1916), remastered and colourised version (2019)}}
=Essendon (VFL)=
In 1919 he returned to Essendon and became a regular Victorian interstate representative throughout the 1920s. A back pocket specialist, Donaldson was tough to beat in an aerial contest and was a long kick of the ball. He was a member of Essendon's 1923 and 1924 premiership teams.
Journalist
After retiring in 1926, Donaldson became a noted football journalist for the Truth newspaper.{{Citation needed|date=June 2022}}
Death
See also
Footnotes
{{Reflist}}
References
- Photographs at [http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article184809233 The Sporting Globe, (Wednesday, 27 June 1923), p.1], and player at extreme right, back row, at :File:Essendon_fc_1923.jpg.
- [http://purl.slwa.wa.gov.au/slwa_b1874692_13.pdf?agree Pioneer Exhibition Game Australian Football: in aid of British and French Red Cross Societies: 3rd Australian Division v. Australian Training Units at Queen's Club, West Kensington, on Saturday, October 28th, 1916, at 3pm, Wightman & Co., (London), 1919.]
- Maplestone, M., Flying Higher: History of the Essendon Football Club 1872–1996, Essendon Football Club, (Melbourne), 1996. {{ISBN|0-9591740-2-8}}
- Richardson, N. (2016) The Game of Their Lives, Pan Macmillan Australia: Sydney. {{ISBN|9781743536667}}
- [https://s3-ap-southeast-2.amazonaws.com/awm-media/collection/RCDIG1067684/large/5374844.JPG First World War Embarkation Roll: Private Clyde Donaldson (251), collection of the Australian War Memorial.]
- [https://s3-ap-southeast-2.amazonaws.com/awm-media/collection/RCDIG1068897/large/5357648.JPG First World War Nominal Roll: Private Clyde Donaldson (251), collection of the Australian War Memorial.]
- [https://recordsearch.naa.gov.au/SearchNRetrieve/NAAMedia/ViewPDF.aspx?B=3513071&D=D First World War Service Record: Private Clyde Donaldson (251), National Archives of Australia.]
External links
{{Commons category}}
- {{AFL Tables|ref=C/Clyde_Donaldson.html}}
- {{AustralianFootball|ref=clyde%2Bdonaldson/3096}}
- [https://www.boylesfootballphotos.net.au/Clyde+Donaldson Clyde Donaldson, at Boyles Football Photos.]
{{1923/24 Essendon dual premiership players}}
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Category:Australian rules footballers from Melbourne
Category:Essendon Football Club players
Category:Essendon Football Club premiership players
Category:Participants in "Pioneer Exhibition Game" (London, 28 October 1916)
Category:Place of birth missing
Category:VFL/AFL premiership players
Category:People from Elsternwick, Victoria
Category:20th-century Australian sportsmen
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