John Charles "Buffer" Sime (3 August 1871 – 16 June 1961) 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 Collingwood 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 John Sime (1816-1891), and Jane Sime (1831–1906), née Mayfield, née Irvine, John Charles Sime was born at

Collingwood, Victoria Collingwood is an inner-city suburb in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia, 3km north-east of the Melbourne central business district, located within the City of Yarra Local government areas of Victoria, local government area. Collingwood recorded a ...

on 3 August 1871.

Football

A number of the earlier newspaper reports have Symes as his family name.

Collingwood (VFA)

Recruited from the local football team, Clarence Juniors, of Clifton Hill, he made his debut for Collingwood in 1892, the year that Collingwood was admitted into the VFA competition.

Collingwood (VFL)

Following the formation of the Victorian Football League in

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, Sime played for Collingwood, against St. Kilda, at Victoria Park, on 8 May 1897, in the team's first-ever match of the VFL's first season.

Death

He died at his residence, in

, on 16 June 1961.Deaths: Sime, ''The Age'', (Monday, 19 June 1961), p. 12.
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Notes

References

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Pennings, Mark (2016), ''Origins of Australian Football: Victoria's early History: Volume 4: Tough Times: Victorian Football loses its Way, 1891 to 1896'', Brunswick, Victoria: Grumpy Monks Publishing.

Collingwood Football Team (Photograph), ''Melbourne Punch'', (Thursday, 15 June 1899), p.578.

External links

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