Reg Trigg

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Reg Trigg
Personal information
Full name Reginald Percival Trigg
Date of birth (1916-07-12)12 July 1916
Place of birth Geelong, Victoria
Date of death 22 April 2002(2002-04-22) (aged 85)
Original team(s) Parkside
Height 174 cm (5 ft 9 in)
Weight 73 kg (161 lb)
Playing career1
Years Club Games (Goals)
1937–38 Fitzroy 4 (8)
1 Playing statistics correct to the end of 1938.
Sources: AFL Tables, AustralianFootball.com

Reginald Percival Trigg (12 July 1916 – 22 April 2002) was an Australian rules footballer who played with Fitzroy in the Victorian Football League (VFL).[1]

Football

Trigg made his senior debut for Fitzroy late in the 1937 season, scoring three goals in a game against South Melbourne[2] and then scoring again against Essendon in the next round.[3]

He played two further senior games for Fitzroy early in the 1938 season before being cleared to VFA side Northcote in the middle of the year.

World War II

Trigg served in the Australian Army during World War II.[4] After a year of service he was placed in the Army Reserve for medical reasons.

Notes

  1. ^ Holmesby, Russell; Main, Jim (2014). The Encyclopedia of AFL Footballers: every AFL/VFL player since 1897 (10th ed.). Seaford, Victoria: BAS Publishing. p. 893. ISBN 978-1-921496-32-5.
  2. ^ "CRIPPLED SOUTH". The Age. No. 25, 682. Victoria, Australia. 9 August 1937. p. 16.
  3. ^ "STRONG FINISH". The Argus. No. 28, 394. Victoria, Australia. 23 August 1937. p. 14.
  4. ^ "World War II Roll: TRIGG, Reginald Percival". Department of Veterans Affairs.

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