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George Pyke (footballer)

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Australian rules footballer

Australian rules footballer
George Pyke
Personal information
Full name George William Pyke
Date of birth (1887-03-02)2 March 1887
Place of birth Ararat, Victoria
Date of death 31 March 1960(1960-03-31) (aged 73)
Place of death Malvern, Victoria
Playing career
Years Club Games (Goals)
1909 Fitzroy 5 (1)
Playing statistics correct to the end of 1909.
Sources: AFL Tables, AustralianFootball.com

George William Pyke (2 March 1887 – 31 March 1960) was an Australian rules footballer who played with Fitzroy in the Victorian Football League (VFL).

Family

The son of Robert George Pyke (1853–1929), and Ellen Bryson Pyke (1861-1943), née McKerchar, later Mrs. Samuel Bilston, George William Pyke was born at Ararat, Victoria on 2 March 1887.

He married Eleanor Grace Turner (1887–1960) in 1910.

Notes

  1. Holmesby & Main (2014), p.724
  2. Deaths: Pyke, The Age, (Saturday, 26 January 1929), p.13.
  3. Deaths; Bilston (Pike), The Age, (Monday, 6 December 1943), p.5.

References

  • Holmesby, Russell; Main, Jim (2014). The Encyclopedia of AFL Footballers: every AFL/VFL player since 1897 (10th ed.). Seaford, Victoria: BAS Publishing. ISBN 978-1-921496-32-5.

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