Harry Aylwin
St Kilda
AFL career
29 games0 goals
- Debut
- R1 1897 v COL8 May 1897
- Most recent
- R11 1899 v FIT22 July 1899
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Bio
Born in Surrey, England, Harry Aylwin was a St Kilda loyalist who bridged the club's transition from the VFA to the newly formed VFL. Having originally debuted for the Saints as a teenager in the VFA competition during the late 1880s, he was already an experienced campaigner by the time he took the field for the club’s inaugural league match against Collingwood in Round 1, 1897. Standing 179cm—a respectable height for a follower or defender in that era—Aylwin toiled in a side that was perpetually under siege, failing to register a goal across his 29 league appearances. His VFL career is defined by a grim statistical quirk: he played three full seasons without ever experiencing a victory, retiring at the end of 1899 just months before St Kilda finally broke their historic 48-game losing streak. Despite the lack of on-field success, he remains a significant figure in the club's history as a foundation player who stuck by the Saints during their darkest competitive era.
Profile
- Full name
- Harry Sydney Aylwin
- Born
- 16 Dec 1870
- Died
- 01 June 1949 (aged 78y 167d)
- Birthplace
- Redhill, United Kingdom
- Deathplace
- Mosman, NSW
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Bio
1 revisionBorn in Surrey, England, Harry Aylwin was a St Kilda loyalist who bridged the club's transition from the VFA to the newly formed VFL. Having originally debuted for the Saints as a teenager in the VFA competition during the late 1880s, he was already an experienced campaigner by the time he took the field for the club’s inaugural league match against Collingwood in Round 1, 1897. Standing 179cm—a respectable height for a follower or defender in that era—Aylwin toiled in a side that was perpetually under siege, failing to register a goal across his 29 league appearances. His VFL career is defined by a grim statistical quirk: he played three full seasons without ever experiencing a victory, retiring at the end of 1899 just months before St Kilda finally broke their historic 48-game losing streak. Despite the lack of on-field success, he remains a significant figure in the club's history as a foundation player who stuck by the Saints during their darkest competitive era.