- Hugh Gavin
Infobox afl player | firstname = Hugh
lastname = Gavin
birthdate = 25 October 1878
birthplace =Stawell
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dead =
deathdate = 13 November 1940
deathplace =Melbourne
debutdate = 1897
debutteam = Essendon
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playingteams = Essendon (1897-1902) (1904)
* 112 games, 21 goals
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* Western Australian carnival side (1911)
* Mines Rovers (1915)
statsend = 1915
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*Champion of the Colony 1902
* Essendon Football Club captain 1904Lodovic Hugh Gavin (born 25 October 1878 in Stawell) was an
Australian rules football er who played 108 games with Essendon in the years following the formation of the VFL.Gavin, a key defender, was a member of Essendon's inaugural premiership side in 1897 and was listed as Essendon's best player in the 1901 grand final. In 1902 he won a
W. S. Crichton Medal and Champion of the Season award for his performances for both Essendon and the VFL competition respectively. He was a regular Victorian representative in interstate football and in 1903 he spent a season in the West Australian goldfields with Boulder City, and being described as the top player of the goldfields in that year. He returned home to Essendon in 1904 and during the season took over as captain of the club.In 1905 he played with Essendon Town in the Victorian Football Association. He then returned to Western Australia and played with the Boulder Stars in 1906 where he was subsequently suspended for "professionalism" after he sued a club official for agreed wages. Despite his honesty he was sidelined for two years; however, his career still flourished. He captained the 1910 Goldfields side that beat Port Adelaide and then was Captain-Coach of the 1911 Western Australian carnival side which played at Adelaide. In 1915 he captained Mines Rovers, of the Western Australian Goldfields, to a premiership.
Hugh Gavin died on 13 Nov 1940 in Melbourne.
References
*AflRleague|ref=H/Hugh_Gavin.html
* [http://www.fullpointsfooty.net/g.htm#Hugh%20Gavin%20(Essendon,%20Boulder%20City,%20Essendon%20Association,%20Boulder%20Stars,%20Mines%20Rovers) Full Points Footy Biography: Hugh Gavin]
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*Everett, Les. book "Gravel Rash - 100 Years of Goldfields Football".
*Maplestone, Michael. "Flying High".
*Maplestone, Michael. "Those Magnificent Men".
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