Alfred Hack

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 Glenelg Career Highlights
  • GFC League Player Number: 78
  • GFC League Debut: Round 1, 1925
  • Glenelg 1925 - 1928, 1931
    • 56 games
    • 40 goals
Alfred Hack

Biographical

  • Born: 12 June 1905
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  • Previous Club: Teachers' College
  • GFC League Debut: 1925

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Alfred Thomas Hack played in Glenelg's first ever League win in Round 1 1925. He played 56 games in total for Glenelg. Prior to joining Glenelg he captained the Teachers' College side for 2 years.

He was also a cricketer who played first-class cricket for South Australia from 1927 to 1931, scoring his only century in South Australia's victory over Queensland in 1928-29. He captained Glenelg district cricket club.

Hack was a schoolteacher. After postings in the Adelaide suburb of Brighton and at the small settlement of Paris Creek, near Strathalbyn, he was appointed to the school at Glenelg, but died suddenly on 4 February 1933 of acute appendicitis shortly after taking up the position. He was 27 years old.


References

1. Pride of the Bay

2. Wikipedia

3. The Mail 4 Feb 1933

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