Max Hislop
Richmond, Collingwood and Melbourne
AFL career
138 games8 goals
- Debut
- R2 1914 v MEL2 May 1914
- Most recent
- R15 1927 v FSC6 Aug 1927
Coaching career
1 games0 wins1 losses0 draws
- First
- SF 1920 v CAR18 Sept 1920
Stats
Bio
Recruited from Swan Hill, Max Hislop's journey to stardom was anything but direct. After brief and underwhelming stints with Collingwood and Melbourne, he walked away from the game entirely for two years, convinced he wasn't cut out for league football. It took the intervention of a friend he was boarding with to coax him down to Punt Road, a decision that transformed him from a self-described failure into one of the era's premier defenders.
Settling at centre-half back, Hislop became the backbone of the Tigers' defence, renowned for his fairness, dashing speed off the mark, and exceptional overhead ability. He was instrumental in Richmond's back-to-back premierships, widely considered the club's best player in both the 1920 and 1921 flag wins. His legacy was sealed in the dying moments of the 1921 Grand Final, where he took a desperate, match-saving mark over Carlton's attack to preserve a four-point victory. After a brief coaching stint in Tasmania, he returned to Richmond for a final season, retiring as a dual premiership hero and Victorian representative.
Profile
- Born
- 25 Aug 1895
- Died
- 10 July 1964 (aged 68y 320d)
- Height
- 178 cm
- Weight
- 76 kg
Teams
Coaching
- Richmond (Senior Coach)19201 games (W0 L1 D0), 0.0%Premiership 1920
Bio
1 revisionRecruited from Swan Hill, Max Hislop's journey to stardom was anything but direct. After brief and underwhelming stints with Collingwood and Melbourne, he walked away from the game entirely for two years, convinced he wasn't cut out for league football. It took the intervention of a friend he was boarding with to coax him down to Punt Road, a decision that transformed him from a self-described failure into one of the era's premier defenders.
Settling at centre-half back, Hislop became the backbone of the Tigers' defence, renowned for his fairness, dashing speed off the mark, and exceptional overhead ability. He was instrumental in Richmond's back-to-back premierships, widely considered the club's best player in both the 1920 and 1921 flag wins. His legacy was sealed in the dying moments of the 1921 Grand Final, where he took a desperate, match-saving mark over Carlton's attack to preserve a four-point victory. After a brief coaching stint in Tasmania, he returned to Richmond for a final season, retiring as a dual premiership hero and Victorian representative.