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Australian rules footballer

Australian rules footballer
Harry Pye
Personal information
Full name Harry Coupar Pye
Date of birth (1880-08-10)10 August 1880
Place of birth Carlton, Victoria
Date of death 13 March 1953(1953-03-13) (aged 72)
Place of death St Kilda, Victoria
Original team(s) St Luke's
Playing career
Years Club Games (Goals)
1901–02 Carlton 16 (1)
Playing statistics correct to the end of 1902.
Sources: AFL Tables, AustralianFootball.com

Harry Coupar Pye (10 August 1880 – 13 March 1953) was an Australian rules footballer who played with Carlton in the Victorian Football League (VFL).

Family

He married twice. He married his first wife, Minnie Brown (-1950), on 8 January 1908. They had two children. He married his second wife, Priscilla Humerston (1890-1968), in 1951, and became stepfather to her daughter.

Football

Carlton (VFL)

Recruited from a local church team, St Lukes, Pye played a total of 16 senior games for Carlton over two seasons: 14 games in 1901, and 2 games in 1902. He played in the first two matches in 1902 under new coach Jack Worrall, and then left the club — in round 3, Worrall made 8 changes (including new players) to the previous week's team, in which Pye had played his final match.

Brighton (VFA)

He was cleared from Carlton to Brighton Football Club in the Victorian Football Association (VFA) on 30 April 1906.

Death

He died at his residence in St Kilda on 13 March 1953.

Notes

  1. Hornsby & Main (2014), p.724.
  2. Weddings: Mr. Harry C. Pye and Miss Minnie Brown, Table Talk, (Thursday, 23 January 1908), p.26; Silver Weddings: Pye—Brown, The Age, (Saturday, 7 January 1933), p.5.
  3. Deaths: Pye, The Age, (Friday, 1 September 1950), p.2.
  4. Round 3, 1902, Blueseum.
  5. Football, The Age, Tuesday, 1 May 1906), p.8.
  6. The Brighton Football Team (Association), The Leader, (Saturday, 27 June 1908), p.26; Brighton Football Club — Season 1906, The (Brighton) Southern Cross, (Saturday, 8 September 1906), p.4.
  7. Deaths: Pye, The Argus, (Saturday, 14 March 1953), p.18.

References

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

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