Ernie Hug

Ernest Leslie Hug (4 March 1944 – 17 June 1978) was an Australian rules footballer who played with Collingwood and South Melbourne in the Victorian Football League (VFL).^[1]

Ernie Hug
Personal information
Full name	Ernest Leslie Hug
Date of birth	(1944-03-04)4 March 1944
Date of death	17 June 1978(1978-06-17) (aged 34)
Place of death	Heyfield, Victoria
Original team(s)	St Pat's
Height	193 cm (6 ft 4 in)
Weight	87 kg (192 lb)
Position(s)	Ruck / Defence
Playing career1
Years	Club	Games (Goals)
1963–65, 1967–70	Collingwood	59 (5)
1971	South Melbourne	15 (0)
Total		74 (5)
1 Playing statistics correct to the end of 1971.
Sources: AFL Tables, AustralianFootball.com

The child of parents Ernest Leslie Hug Snr (1919–1977) and Rosemary Eleanor Hug, nee Pavey (1924–2015), Ernest Leslie Hug was born at Dandenong on 4 March 1944. Hug married Kaylene Fidler in December 1968 and they had 4 children, Bernadene Voss, Ernie Hug 3rd, Catherine Hug and Peter Hug.

Hug's son, Ernie, 3rd. was drafted to Collingwood under the father-son rule in 1989 but failed to play a senior match for Collingwood. His other son Peter, died in 1999 from injuries sustained during a football match.^[2]

Ernie Hug died in 1978 after a tractor accident on his cattle farm in Heyfield, Victoria.^[3]

Notes

1. Holmesby, Russell; Main, Jim (2014). The Encyclopedia of AFL Footballers: every AFL/VFL player since 1897 (10th ed.). Seaford, Victoria: BAS Publishing. p. 415. ISBN 978-1-921496-32-5.
2. Daffey, Paul (22 November 2003). "A bitter draft, without a debut".
3. "Football Loses Four Identities". Football Record (Round 12): 13. 24 June 1978.

External links

• Ernie Hug's playing statistics from AFL Tables
• Profile at Collingwood Forever