Vic Wawn
St Kilda
AFL career
2 games1 goals
- Debut
- SR2 1900 v MEL1 Sept 1900
- Most recent
- SR3 1900 v GEE8 Sept 1900
Stats
Bio
Listed in the record books as Vic Wawn, this short-lived St Kilda forward represents one of the league’s fascinating cases of mistaken identity. While official statistics assign the two-game career to Victor Aubrey Wawn, historians have largely concluded the player was actually his older brother Roy, a talented sportsman recruited from Wesley College. Brought into a struggling Saints lineup during the dying stages of the dismal 1900 wooden spoon campaign, he played as a forward and managed to boot a goal in his final appearance against Geelong at the Junction Oval. The player left the VFL immediately to pursue a distinguished medical career, leaving behind a curious legacy where his stats remained attached to the real Vic Wawn—who himself achieved later fame not as a footballer, but as the entrepreneur behind the iconic Australian household brand, Wawn’s Wonder Wool.
Profile
- Born
- 20 May 1880
- Died
- 14 Feb 1966 (aged 85y 270d)
- Birthplace
- Brighton East, VIC
- Deathplace
- Ferny Creek, VIC
Teams
Bio
1 revisionListed in the record books as Vic Wawn, this short-lived St Kilda forward represents one of the league’s fascinating cases of mistaken identity. While official statistics assign the two-game career to Victor Aubrey Wawn, historians have largely concluded the player was actually his older brother Roy, a talented sportsman recruited from Wesley College. Brought into a struggling Saints lineup during the dying stages of the dismal 1900 wooden spoon campaign, he played as a forward and managed to boot a goal in his final appearance against Geelong at the Junction Oval. The player left the VFL immediately to pursue a distinguished medical career, leaving behind a curious legacy where his stats remained attached to the real Vic Wawn—who himself achieved later fame not as a footballer, but as the entrepreneur behind the iconic Australian household brand, Wawn’s Wonder Wool.