Dick Grigg

Richard Randolph Grigg (8 June 1885 – 12 November 1972) was an Australian rules footballer for the Geelong Football Club in the Victorian Football League, now Australian Football League.

Dick Grigg
Cigarette card of Grigg in 1909
Personal information
Date of birth	8 June 1885
Place of birth	Bellarine, Victoria
Date of death	12 November 1972(1972-11-12) (aged 87)
Place of death	North Geelong, Victoria
Original team(s)	Drysdale
Debut	Round 1, 7 May 1904, Geelong vs. Collingwood, at Victoria Park
Playing career1
Years	Club	Games (Goals)
1904–14; 1921	Geelong	194 (64)
1 Playing statistics correct to the end of 1921.
Career highlights
Geelong Best and Fairest 1910, 1911, 1912, 1914 Geelong Team of the Century (Half-back)
Sources: AFL Tables, AustralianFootball.com

Family

The son of Thomas Tobias Grigg (1851–1930),^[1] and Katherine Douglas Grigg (1854–1946), née Williamson,^[2][3] Richard Randolph Grigg was born at Bellarine, Victoria on 8 June 1885.^[4] One of his brothers, Norman Cecil Grigg (1893–1945), also played VFL football with Geelong.

He married Lyla Daphne Calhoun (1888–1957), at the Cairns Memorial Presbyterian Church, in Melbourne, on 19 June 1915.^[5][6][7] They had three children.

Football

Geelong Football Team (1909).
Grigg is third from right, middle row.

Enthusiast's Letter to the Editor
The Herald, 21 September 1934.^[8]

Grigg was a brilliant utility who was skilled in all facets of the game. He was a brilliant high mark and possessed fine anticipation, great style, and plenty of dash. He was regarded as one of the VFL's most accomplished and fairest players.

Geelong (VFL)

Grigg played 130 consecutive matches between 1904–14, a Geelong record that stands as of 2023. After seven years out of VFL circles, he made a brief comeback to play the final two matches of 1921, at the age of 36. He was a captain for two matches.^{[citation needed]}

Best and Fairest

He won Geelong's Best and Fairest award four times: 1910, 1911, 1912 and 1914.^[9][10]

Representative football

He represented Victoria in interstate matches on nine occasions.^[11]

Geelong's "Team of the Century"

He was named in Geelong's Team of the Century.

Geelong's "Hall of Fame"

In 2007 he was elevated to legend status in the Geelong Hall of Fame.^[12]

Death

He died at North Geelong, Victoria on 12 November 1972.^[13]

See also

• 1914 Sydney Carnival

Notes

1. Deaths: Grigg, The Age, (Tuesday, 18 February 1930), p. 1.
2. Marriage: Grigg—Williamson, The Geelong Advertiser, (Tuesday, 14 August 1877), p. 1.
3. Deaths: Grigg, The Argus, (Wednesday, 3 July 1946), p. 16.
4. Births Deaths and Marriages Victoria Births Registration no.15380/1885.
5. Birth: Calhoun, The Geelong Advertiser, (Tuesday, 18 June 1888), p. 2.
6. R. Grigg's Wedding, The Geelong Advertiser, (Friday, 25 June 1915), p. 2.
7. Births Deaths and Marriages Victoria Deaths Registration no.22058/1957.
8. 'Enthusiast', "Best Ever in Victoria (Letter to the Editor)", The (Melbourne) Herald, (Saturday, 22 September 1934), p. 30.
9. Oates, Stacey (27 January 2015). "New discovery places Grigg on top".
10. Lannen, Danny, "Dick Grigg joins Garry Hocking in Geelong Cats' Record Book a century after his best and fairest win", The Geelong Advertiser, 26 January 2015.
11. Holmesby & Main (2002), p. 249.
12. Shields, Jason (2 July 2007). "Cats honour past legends". Archived from the original on 13 October 2012.
13. Births Deaths and Marriages Victoria Deaths Registration no.26786/1972.

References

• Holmesby, Russell & Main, Jim (2002), The Encyclopedia of AFL Footballers: Every AFL/VFL Player since 1897 (4th ed.), Melbourne, Victoria: Crown Content. ISBN 1-74095-001-1

External links

• Dick Grigg's playing statistics from AFL Tables
• Dick Grigg at AustralianFootball.com