Clive Alfred Fergie (20 December 1895 – 13 August 1960) 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 Fitzroy 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). Fergie played his early football at Scotch College before starting his league career in 1915. After appearing in the opening three rounds of the

1916 VFL season The 1916 VFL season was the 20th season of the Victorian Football League (VFL), the highest-level senior Australian rules football competition in Victoria. Played during the peak of World War I, the season was the shortest in the league's histo ...

, he embarked for Europe to serve with the 3rd Machine Gun Battalion in the war and would fight on the Western Front. He was awarded both a

British War Medal The British War Medal is a campaign medal of the United Kingdom which was awarded to officers and men and women of British and Imperial forces for service in the First World War. Two versions of the medal were produced. About 6.5 million were st ...

and Victory Medal for his war service. He returned to Australia in 1919 and played seven games for Fitzroy that year.AFL Tables: Clive Fergie
/ref> In 1922 he was Fitzroy's first rover in their premiership side and also played in their team which lost the 1923 VFL Grand Final.

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1895 births Australian rules footballers from Melbourne Fitzroy Football Club players Fitzroy Football Club premiership players Australian military personnel of World War I 1960 deaths People educated at Scotch College, Melbourne VFL/AFL premiership players People from Williamstown, Victoria Military personnel from Melbourne 20th-century Australian sportsmen {{AFL-bio-1895-stub