Harold Hay
{{Short description|Australian rules footballer}}
{{Use dmy dates|date=January 2018}}
{{Use Australian English|date=January 2018}}
{{Infobox AFL biography
| name = Harold Hay
| image =
| fullname = Harold Dudley Hay
| birth_date = {{birth date|1881|12|31|df=y}}
| birth_place = St Kilda, Victoria
| death_date = {{death date and age|1955|12|27|1881|12|31|df=yes}}
| death_place = Barooga, New South Wales
| originalteam = Cumloden College
| height =
| weight =
| position =
| statsend = 1900
| years1 = 1900
| club1 = {{AFL Mel}}
| games_goals1 = 7 (2)
| careerhighlights = * VFL premiership player: 1900
}}
Harold Dudley Hay (31 December 1881 – 27 December 1955) was an Australian rules footballer who played for the Melbourne Football Club in the Victorian Football League (VFL).Holmesby & Main (2014), p.378.
Family
His brother, Cedric Rupert Hay (1880–1953), also played VFL football for Melbourne.
Football
=Melbourne (VFL)=
Hay became one of the club's first premiership players, playing in the 1900 VFL Grand Final, under the captaincy of Dick Wardill. He made his debut against {{AFL SM}} in Round 13 of the 1900 VFL season, at the Melbourne Cricket Ground.
="Heritage number"=
Hay has been given the Melbourne Heritage Number of 81 (his brother, Ced, has 82), based on the order of his debut for the club.[https://www.melbournefc.com.au/history/heritage-numbers Heritage Numbers: Men's Players (VFL/AFL era), melbournefc.com.au.]
Death
Hay died at his home, the Langi Oonah homestead, in Barooga, New South Wales, just across the Murray River from Cobram, on 27 December 1955.[http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article71788990 Deaths: Hay, The Argus, (Thursday, 29 December 1955), p.13.]
Footnotes
{{Reflist}}
References
- {{Ref AFL Encyc|10th}}
External links
- {{AFL Tables|H/Harold_Hay}}
- {{AustralianFootball|harold+hay/1449}}
- [http://www.demonwiki.org/Harold+Hay Harold Hay, at Demonwiki.]
{{1900 Melbourne premiership players}}
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Category:Melbourne Football Club players
Category:Australian rules footballers from Melbourne
Category:Melbourne Football Club premiership players
Category:VFL/AFL premiership players
Category:People from St Kilda, Victoria
Category:19th-century Australian sportsmen
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