Arthur Cairns
St Kilda
AFL career
2 games2 goals
- Debut
- R10 1942 v FSC11 July 1942
- Most recent
- R14 1942 v SME8 Aug 1942
Stats
Bio
Hailing from Eaglehawk in the Bendigo Football League, Arthur Cairns was a mature-age recruit who arrived at the Junction Oval during the tumultuous wartime season of 1942. With VFL playing lists decimated by military enlistments, St Kilda looked to regional Victoria for talent, handing the 25-year-old his debut in Round 10 against Footscray. Standing 175cm, Cairns offered immediate value up forward, managing to boot two goals across his brief two-game stint at the elite level. His short-lived VFL career serves as a classic example of the "fill-in" players who kept the league afloat during the Second World War, stepping in to play a specific role before disappearing from the senior records just as quickly as he arrived.
Profile
- Full name
- Arthur S. Cairns
- Born
- 07 Apr 1917
- Died
- 12 Jan 1992 (aged 74y 280d)
Teams
Bio
1 revisionHailing from Eaglehawk in the Bendigo Football League, Arthur Cairns was a mature-age recruit who arrived at the Junction Oval during the tumultuous wartime season of 1942. With VFL playing lists decimated by military enlistments, St Kilda looked to regional Victoria for talent, handing the 25-year-old his debut in Round 10 against Footscray. Standing 175cm, Cairns offered immediate value up forward, managing to boot two goals across his brief two-game stint at the elite level. His short-lived VFL career serves as a classic example of the "fill-in" players who kept the league afloat during the Second World War, stepping in to play a specific role before disappearing from the senior records just as quickly as he arrived.