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Australian rules footballer and coach

Australian rules footballer
Percy Wilson
Personal information
Full name Percival Edward Wilson
Date of birth (1889-03-31)31 March 1889
Place of birth Carlton North, Victoria
Date of death 28 March 1941(1941-03-28) (aged 51)
Place of death Prahran, Victoria
Original team(s) Collingwood Trades
Height 168 cm (5 ft 6 in)
Weight 70 kg (154 lb)
Position(s) Rover, forward
Playing career
Years Club Games (Goals)
1909–1920 Collingwood 183 (71)
1921–1924 Melbourne 051 (20)
Total 234 (91)
Representative team honours
Years Team Games (Goals)
Victoria 2 (?)
Coaching career
Years Club Games (W–L–D)
1921–1923 Melbourne 48 (16–30–2)
1930–1931 Camberwell ?
Playing statistics correct to the end of 1924. Coaching statistics correct as of 1923.
Career highlights
Sources: AFL Tables, AustralianFootball.com

Percival Edward Wilson (31 March 1889 – 28 March 1941) was an Australian rules footballer who played with Collingwood and Melbourne in the Victorian Football League (VFL) during the early 1900s.

A rover, Wilson won two premierships with Collingwood. The latter, in 1917, was a captain. In 1921 he moved to the Demons where he became captain and coach of the club.

Wilson coached Camberwell in 1930–31.

Death

Having been ill for several months, he died on 28 March 1941.

Footnotes

  1. Deaths: Wilson, The Argus, (Saturday, 29 March 1941), p.4.
  2. "Former champion dies". The Argus. 29 March 1941. Retrieved 17 March 2012.

References

External links

Collingwood Football Club 1910 VFL premiers
Collingwood 9.7 (61) defeated Carlton 6.11 (47), at the Melbourne Cricket Ground
Coach: Angus
Collingwood Football Club 1917 VFL premiers
Collingwood 9.20 (74) defeated Fitzroy 5.9 (39), at the Melbourne Cricket Ground
Coach: McHale
Captains of the Collingwood Football Club
VFL/AFL
AFL Women's
Captains of the Melbourne Football Club
Pre-VFA
VFA
VFL/AFL
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Coaches of the Melbourne Football Club
VFL/AFL
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Italics denote caretaker coach
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