Cyril Hall
Melbourne
AFL career
9 games0 goals
- Debut
- R2 1919 v SME10 May 1919
- Most recent
- R12 1919 v RCH26 July 1919
Stats
Bio
Recruited from obscurity as a 29-year-old mature-age rookie, Cyril Hall served as a stopgap solution for a Melbourne squad desperate for numbers upon its return to the VFL in 1919. With the club’s playing stocks severely depleted following a three-year hiatus during the Great War, Hall was pitched directly into the senior lineup to help field a team during a disastrous, winless campaign for the Redlegs. He managed nine appearances as a defensive-minded utility in a side that was routinely thrashed, failing to hit the scoreboard before falling out of the rotation late in the year. Hall was delisted at the end of the season, his brief career standing as a testament to the makeshift nature of the club’s post-war rebuilding phase.
Profile
- Born
- 14 Dec 1889
- Died
- 20 Mar 1979 (aged 89y 96d)
- Deathplace
- Perth, WA
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Bio
1 revisionRecruited from obscurity as a 29-year-old mature-age rookie, Cyril Hall served as a stopgap solution for a Melbourne squad desperate for numbers upon its return to the VFL in 1919. With the club’s playing stocks severely depleted following a three-year hiatus during the Great War, Hall was pitched directly into the senior lineup to help field a team during a disastrous, winless campaign for the Redlegs. He managed nine appearances as a defensive-minded utility in a side that was routinely thrashed, failing to hit the scoreboard before falling out of the rotation late in the year. Hall was delisted at the end of the season, his brief career standing as a testament to the makeshift nature of the club’s post-war rebuilding phase.