Ted Kinnear
Ted Kinnear | |||
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![]() Kinnear in 1901 | |||
Personal information | |||
Full name | Edward Hore Kinnear | ||
Date of birth | 27 October 1874 | ||
Place of birth | Essendon, Victoria | ||
Date of death | 3 March 1965 | (aged 90)||
Place of death | Essendon, Victoria | ||
Original team(s) | Essendon District | ||
Position(s) | Follower, forward | ||
Playing career1 | |||
Years | Club | Games (Goals) | |
1895–1896 | Essendon (VFA) | 35 (8) | |
1897–1903 | Essendon | 108 (31) | |
Total | 143 (39) | ||
1 Playing statistics correct to the end of 1903. | |||
Career highlights | |||
Sources: AFL Tables, AustralianFootball.com |
Edward Hore Kinnear (27 October 1874 – 3 March 1965) was an Australian rules footballer who played for the Essendon Football Club in the Victorian Football League (VFL).[1]
Family
[edit]The son of George Steemson Kinnear (1825-1902),[2] and his second wife, Susannah Hamlyn Kinnear (1840-1927), née Hore,[3][4] Edward Hore Kinnear was born at Essendon, Victoria on 27 October 1874.
He married Jessie Frew Connelly (1877-1944) on 18 September 1901.[5][6] They had eight children: four sons, and four daughters.
Football
[edit]Essendon (VFA)
[edit]Recruited from local club, Essendon District,[7] in 1895, Kinnear played in 35 games and scored 8 goals for Essendon in the 1895 and 1896 (pre-VFL) VFA competition.
Essendon (VFL)
[edit]Playing in the back-pocket,[8] Kinnear was part of the team that played in Essendon's first VFL match against Geelong, at Corio Oval, on 8 May 1897. He was also part of the Essendon team that won the 1897 premiership -- it is significant that, because the Essendon team had won the end-of-season round-robin competition contested by the top four home-and-away teams, there was no "Grand Final" required in 1897.
He was used as a full-forward in 1901 and kicked 16 goals, including five in a win over Carlton. Kinnear was a member of the Essendon team that won the premiership in the 1901 Grand Final match, against Collingwood, on 7 September 1901.
He was Essendon's vice-captain in 1901 and 1902, was acting-captain on eleven occasions in those two years,[9] and retired as a footballer after the match against Collingwood, at Victoria park, on 8 June 1903.
In all he appeared in ten final matches, with losing grand finals in 1898 and 1902.
100 VFL games
[edit]Towards the end of his career, and playing as a follower, Kinnear became the first Essendon player to reach 100 VFL games — that is, in addition to his 35 games for the Essendon team in the (pre-VFL) VFA competition in the 1895 and 1896 seasons — a milestone he reached when playing against Fitzroy in the 1902 Preliminary Final on 13 September 1902.
Mayor of Essendon
[edit]An Essendon councillor from 1911 to 1934, he served as the Lord Mayor of Essendon in 1919 and 1920.
Rope-maker
[edit]He had a highly successful commercial career over many years as the chairman of the major Australian rope-makers, George Kinnear & Sons Pty Ltd, until he retired at the age of 89.[10]
Death
[edit]He died at his Essendon residence on 3 March 1965;[11] and, with his old team-mate Joe Groves having died four years earlier (on 3 July 1961), at the time of his death Kinnear was the last surviving player of Essendon's 1897 premiership team.
Notes
[edit]- ^ Holmesby & Main (2014), p.483.
- ^ Deaths: Kinnear, The Argus, (Thursday, 3 April 1902), p.1.
- ^ Marriage: Kinnear—Hore, The Age, (Saturday, 12 August 1865), p.4.
- ^ Deaths: Kinnear, The Argus, (Thursday, 12 May 1927), p.1.
- ^ Marriages: Kinnear—Connelly, The Argus, (Saturday, 26 October 1902), p.9.
- ^ Deaths: Kinnear, The Argus, (Monday, 22 May 1944), p.2.
- ^ Maplestone (1996), p.44.
- ^ Maplestone (1996), p.50.
- ^ Maplestone (1996), p.369.
- ^ Lack (1983).
- ^ Deaths: Kinnear, The Age, (Thursday, 4 March 1965), p.16.
References
[edit]- Kinnear, E.H., "Essendon Football Ground (Letter to the Editor)", The Herald, (Monday, 6 June 1921), p.10.
- Holmesby, Russell & Main, Jim (2014), The Encyclopedia of AFL Footballers: Every AFL/VFL Player since 1897 (10th ed.), Melbourne: Bas Publishing. ISBN 978-1-921496-32-5
- Lack, John (1983), "Kinnear, Edward Hore (1874–1965)", Australian Dictionary of Biography, Volume 9, Carlton: Melbourne University Press, 1983.
- Maplestone, M., Flying Higher: History of the Essendon Football Club 1872–1996, Essendon Football Club, (Melbourne), 1996. ISBN 0-9591740-2-8
External links
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- Ted Kinnear's playing statistics from AFL Tables
- Essendon past players profile
- Ted Kinnear at AustralianFootball.com
- Edward Hore Kinnear & Jessie Frew Kinnear, at findagrave.com.
- 1874 births
- 1965 deaths
- Mayors of places in Victoria (state)
- Australian rules footballers from Melbourne
- Essendon Football Club (VFA) players
- Essendon Football Club players
- Essendon Football Club premiership players
- VFL/AFL premiership players
- 20th-century Australian businesspeople
- Ropework
- Businesspeople from Melbourne
- Politicians from Melbourne
- People from Essendon, Victoria