Allan McCracken

Robert Alexander "Allan" McCracken (13 April 1889 – 28 June 1967)[1] was an Australian rules footballer who played for the University Football Club in the Victorian Football League (VFL).[2]

Allan McCracken
Personal information
Full name Robert Alexander Allan McCracken
Date of birth (1889-04-13)13 April 1889
Place of birth Essendon, Victoria
Date of death 28 June 1967(1967-06-28) (aged 78)
Place of death Malvern, Victoria
Original team(s) Scotch College
Playing career1
Years Club Games (Goals)
1911–1912 University 22 (8)
1 Playing statistics correct to the end of 1912.
Sources: AFL Tables, AustralianFootball.com

After leaving Scotch College in 1910, McCracken studied to qualify as an architect at the University of Melbourne and while studying played 22 games for the University team in the VFL.[3]

In August 1914 McCracken enlisted to serve in World War I at Prahran, and shortly before embarking on the HMAT Orivieto for overseas in October, he married Mabel Geraldine Fitzgerald. He landed at Gallipoli with the machine gun section of the 5th Battalion, fought at Cape Helles and took part in the Battle of Krithia. After the Gallipoli evacuation he was given a commission in the 57th Battalion but he returned to Australia after being shot in the face while fighting near Fleurbaix in France, and was discharged in January 1917.[4]

Sources
  1. "Great Scot". Scotch College. September 2010. Retrieved 31 August 2014.
  2. Holmesby, Russell; Main, Jim (2014). The Encyclopedia of AFL Footballers: every AFL/VFL player since 1897 (10th ed.). Melbourne, Victoria: Bas Publishing. p. 570. ISBN 978-1-921496-32-5.
  3. The University Team, The Leader, (Saturday, 4 May 1912), p.29.
  4. Cullen, Barbara (2015). Harder than football : league players at war. Richmond, Victoria: Slattery Media Group. p. 182. ISBN 978-0-992379-14-8.


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