Allan McCracken
University
AFL career
22 games8 goals
- Debut
- R1 1911 v SME29 Apr 1911
- Most recent
- R8 1912 v GEE8 June 1912
Stats
Bio
Arriving at the University Football Club via Scotch College, Allan McCracken was a diminutive footballer who balanced his VFL career with architecture studies at the University of Melbourne. Standing just 169cm, the small rover and forward pocket featured regularly for the Students across the 1911 and 1912 seasons, managing eight goals in his 22 appearances during the club's final years in the league. While his on-field tenure was brief, his story is defined by his service during the Great War, where he enlisted in 1914 and survived the Gallipoli campaign with the 5th Battalion. Commissioned as an officer on the Western Front, his war—and any prospect of a sporting return—ended after he was shot in the face near Fleurbaix in 1916, eventually returning home to Victoria as one of the club's many decorated scholar-soldiers.
Profile
- Born
- 13 Apr 1889
- Died
- 28 June 1967 (aged 78y 76d)
- Birthplace
- Essendon, VIC
- Deathplace
- Malvern, VIC
Teams
Bio
1 revisionArriving at the University Football Club via Scotch College, Allan McCracken was a diminutive footballer who balanced his VFL career with architecture studies at the University of Melbourne. Standing just 169cm, the small rover and forward pocket featured regularly for the Students across the 1911 and 1912 seasons, managing eight goals in his 22 appearances during the club's final years in the league. While his on-field tenure was brief, his story is defined by his service during the Great War, where he enlisted in 1914 and survived the Gallipoli campaign with the 5th Battalion. Commissioned as an officer on the Western Front, his war—and any prospect of a sporting return—ended after he was shot in the face near Fleurbaix in 1916, eventually returning home to Victoria as one of the club's many decorated scholar-soldiers.