Alf Baud
Carlton
AFL career
53 games16 goals
- Debut
- R5 1913 v UNI24 May 1913
- Most recent
- GF 1915 v COL18 Sept 1915
Stats
Bio
Recruited from Eaglehawk in the Bendigo league after a best-on-ground performance in a local Grand Final, Alf Baud was a versatile star whose brilliant career was tragically curtailed by the Great War. Originally a half-forward who could rotate through the centre, he was masterfully reinvented as a dashing half-back flanker by coach Norman Clark, becoming a key architect of the Blues' back-to-back flags in 1914 and 1915. He captained the 1915 premiership side at just 22 years of age—holding the record as the league's youngest premiership skipper for over four decades—and was famously rated by Roy Cazaly as a superior talent to triple-Brownlow winner Haydn Bunton. Baud's on-field journey ended in 1917 when he suffered severe shrapnel injuries to the skull at ANZAC Ridge, though he remained a revered figure at Princes Park as a long-serving administrator and Hall of Fame inductee.
Profile
- Born
- 20 Sept 1892
- Died
- 05 Dec 1986 (aged 94y 76d)
- Birthplace
- Nagambie, VIC
- Deathplace
- Heidelberg West, VIC
- Height
- 178 cm
- Weight
- 74 kg
Teams
Honours
- Premiership(2×) 1914, 1915
Family
- Grandson:Geoff Cayzer
Bio
1 revisionRecruited from Eaglehawk in the Bendigo league after a best-on-ground performance in a local Grand Final, Alf Baud was a versatile star whose brilliant career was tragically curtailed by the Great War. Originally a half-forward who could rotate through the centre, he was masterfully reinvented as a dashing half-back flanker by coach Norman Clark, becoming a key architect of the Blues' back-to-back flags in 1914 and 1915. He captained the 1915 premiership side at just 22 years of age—holding the record as the league's youngest premiership skipper for over four decades—and was famously rated by Roy Cazaly as a superior talent to triple-Brownlow winner Haydn Bunton. Baud's on-field journey ended in 1917 when he suffered severe shrapnel injuries to the skull at ANZAC Ridge, though he remained a revered figure at Princes Park as a long-serving administrator and Hall of Fame inductee.