Stan McKenzie (footballer), Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death
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Australian rules footballer
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Place of Birth: Myamyn, Victoria, Australia
About Stan McKenzie (footballer)
- Alfred Stanley Dudley McKenzie (30 August 1896 – 13 September 1985) was an Australian rules footballer who played with Collingwood and Hawthorn in the Victorian Football League (VFL).The son of Archibald McKenzie and Martha Bardsley, McKenzie grew up on a farm in Myamyn near Heywood, Victoria but later moved to Melbourne.
- He enlisted in 1915 and fought in World War I before returning to Australia two years later.McKenzie embarked on his football career with Port Melbourne juniors before transferring to Collingwood, playing nine games during the 1918 VFL season.
- In 1919 he crossed to North Melbourne in the Victorian Football Association where he played for two seasons.
- In 1921 he joined Hawthorn where he became a stalwart of that club's final three seasons in the VFA, winning its Most Consistent Player Trophy in 1922.
- McKenzie played every game for Hawthorn in their first VFL season in 1925.
- A talented and hard to beat half-back, he became the first ever Hawthorn player to gain selection for a Victorian team in 1925.
- He retired at the end of the 1925 season. In 1919 Stan McKenzie married Nellie May Walsh and they had three children.
- He continued his football involvement as coach of the Auburn Football Club and worked as a postman.
- Stan McKenzie died in 1985, aged 89.
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