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Eric Roscoe

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Eric Roscoe
Personal information
Full name Eric Roscoe
Date of birth (1922-12-27)27 December 1922
Place of birth Clifton Hill, Victoria
Date of death 11 May 2000(2000-05-11) (aged 77)
Original team(s) Shepparton
Height 170 cm (5 ft 7 in)
Weight 78 kg (172 lb)
Playing career1
Years Club Games (Goals)
1948–49 Melbourne 17 (11)
1 Playing statistics correct to the end of 1949.
Sources: AFL Tables, AustralianFootball.com

Eric Roscoe (27 December 1922 – 11 May 2000)[1] was an Australian rules footballer who played with Melbourne in the Victorian Football League (VFL).[2]

Family

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The son of Ellen Emma Roscoe (1899-1948), later Mrs. Joseph Winton, Eric Roscoe was born at Clifton Hill, Victoria on 27 December 1922. He married Edith Lila Wood in 1950.

War Service

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Roscoe enlisted in the Australian Army in November 1941 at the age of 18 and served in both New Guinea and the Solomon Islands until his discharge in 1946.[3]

Football

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Roscoe won the 1947 Central Goulburn Valley Football League best and fairest award, when playing for Shepparton Football Club.[4] Roscoe then moved to Melbourne where he played a total of 17 games over two seasons in the Victorian Football League.

Notes

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  1. ^ "Eric Roscoe – Player Bio". Australian Football. Retrieved 22 December 2014.
  2. ^ Holmesby & Main (2009), p.722.
  3. ^ Nominal Roll.
  4. ^ "1947 - CGVFL - Best & Fairest Award". Shepparton Advertiser. 5 September 1947. p. 7. Retrieved 22 July 2020 – via Trove Newspapers.

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