Mal Markellie
St Kilda
AFL career
21 games8 goals
- Debut
- R1 1899 v MEL13 May 1899
- Most recent
- R6 1903 v MEL6 June 1903
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Bio
Recruited from Caulfield, Mal Markellie was a lively forward and follower who joined St Kilda during the club’s most trying pioneering era. He debuted in the winless 1899 season, a brutal initiation where the Saints were routinely thrashed, before dropping out of the senior side for two years. He returned in 1902 to play his best football, becoming a regular contributor in the starting 18 and providing a rare avenue to goal for a team that was perpetually under siege. While his career was brief, he is remembered as a willing competitor who toiled hard in a struggling side, later establishing himself as a prominent publican and racehorse owner in Melbourne’s sporting circles.
Profile
- Born
- 14 Dec 1880
- Died
- 09 Mar 1945 (aged 64y 85d)
- Birthplace
- Ballarat, VIC
- Deathplace
- Malvern, VIC
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Bio
1 revisionRecruited from Caulfield, Mal Markellie was a lively forward and follower who joined St Kilda during the club’s most trying pioneering era. He debuted in the winless 1899 season, a brutal initiation where the Saints were routinely thrashed, before dropping out of the senior side for two years. He returned in 1902 to play his best football, becoming a regular contributor in the starting 18 and providing a rare avenue to goal for a team that was perpetually under siege. While his career was brief, he is remembered as a willing competitor who toiled hard in a struggling side, later establishing himself as a prominent publican and racehorse owner in Melbourne’s sporting circles.