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Firth William McCallum (27 December 1872 – 11 July 1910) was an Australian rules footballer who played with Geelong in both the Victorian Football Association (VFA) and the Victorian Football League (VFL).[1]
| Firth McCallum | |||
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McCallum in 1899 | |||
| Personal information | |||
| Full name | Firth William McCallum | ||
| Date of birth | 27 December 1872 | ||
| Place of birth | Birregurra, Victoria | ||
| Date of death | 11 July 1910 (aged 37) | ||
| Place of death | Birregurra, Victoria | ||
| Original team(s) | Birregurra | ||
| Position(s) | Centre / Half-forward | ||
| Playing career1 | |||
| Years | Club | Games (Goals) | |
| 1893-1896 | Geelong (VFA) | 57 (0) | |
| 1897–1903, 1905 | Geelong (VFL) | 74 (25) | |
| Total | 131 (25) | ||
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1 Playing statistics correct to the end of 1905. | |||
| Sources: AFL Tables, AustralianFootball.com | |||
The son of James McCallum (1844-1888),[2] and Ann Whitely McCallum (1843–1928), née Leake, later, Mrs. Richard West Beach,[3][4][5] Firth William McCallum was born at Birregurra, Victoria on 27 December 1872.[6]
He married Jeanetta Gilmore "Nettie" Douglas (1877–1949), at Geelong, on 22 April 1903;[7] they had three children.[8]
Recruited by the VFA club, Geelong, from the Birregurra Football Club,[9] he played in 12 matches for the team in 1893,[10] 13 matches in 1894,[11] 17 matches in 1895,[12] and 15 matches in 1896.[13]
On 21 July 1894 he and his Geelong team-mate, Joe Marmo,[14][15] played on the wing for the VFA in an inter-colonial match, against South Australia, on the MCG.[16]
He played for Geelong in its first-ever match in the new VFL competition, against Essendon, at the Corio Oval, on 8 May 1897.
At the end of the 1899 season, in the process of naming his own "champion player", the football correspondent for The Argus, Reginald Wilmot ("Old Boy"), selected a team of the best players of the 1899 VFL competition:
From those he considered to be the three best players — that is, Condon, Hickey, and Pleass — Wilmot selected Pat Hickey as his "champion player" of the season.[17]
McCallum, who had been suffering from consumption, died at Birregurra, Victoria on 11 July 1910,[18][19][20][21] and was buried at the Warncoort Cemetery on 13 July 1910.[22]
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