William Harold McBean (28 February 1889 – 19 June 1976) was an
Australian rules football
Australian football, also called Australian rules football or Aussie rules, or more simply football or footy, is a contact sport played between two teams of 18 players on an Australian rules football playing field, oval field, often a modified ...
er who played with
Melbourne
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in the
Victorian Football League
The Victorian Football League (VFL) is an Australian rules football competition in Australia operated by the Australian Football League (AFL) as a second-tier, regional, semi-professional competition. It includes teams from clubs based in east ...
(VFL).
Family
The son of William McBean (1858-1921), and Lucy Margaret Leontine McBean (1862-1949), née Mortimer, William Harold McBean was born at
Hawthorn, Victoria
Hawthorn is an inner suburb of Melbourne, Victoria, Australia, east of Melbourne's Melbourne central business district, central business district, located within the City of Boroondara Local government areas of Victoria, local government area. ...
on 28 February 1889.
He married Mary Rothwell Dougall in 1917. They were divorced in 1934.
Education
He attended
Scotch College, Melbourne
Scotch College is a private, Presbyterian day and boarding school for boys, located in Hawthorn, an inner-eastern suburb of Melbourne, Victoria, Australia.
The college was established in 1851 as The Melbourne Academy in a house in Spri ...
in 1906, and was a member of the Scotch College premiership First XVIII in 1906.
Football
Melbourne (VFL)
He played one match for the Melbourne Football Club:
against University on 14 August 1909.
Richmond (VFL)
Although cleared from Melbourne to Richmond in 1910, he did not ever play for Richmond.
[''Demonwiki''.]
Notes
References
*
Scotch's first 66 VFL/AFL players: 54.William Harold McBean, ''Great Scot'', September 2010.
External links
*
Billy McBean at ''Demonwiki''.
1889 births
1976 deaths
Australian rules footballers from Melbourne
Melbourne Football Club players
People from Hawthorn, Victoria
People educated at Scotch College, Melbourne
20th-century Australian sportsmen
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