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Information drawn from various sources: daily newspapers such as The Advocate, The North-West Post and The Examiner proving especially useful for the match by match research of his playing career in Tasmania. |
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| Season | Team | Games | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1910 | Launceston | 2 | umpired NWFU roster matches early in season, then joined Launceston for 2 matches in September |
| 1911 | Mersey | 3 | plus at least one representative game for NWFU |
| 1912 | Mersey | 13 | |
| 1913 | Latrobe | 11 | plus at least one representative game for NWFU |
| 1914 | Latrobe | 9 | |
| 1915 | Latrobe | 0 | only a few games played by clubs in NWFU, numbers enlisting in the services forced closure of season. Coventry doesn't appear in any game. |
| 1916 | Latrobe | 0 | no NWFU football due to World War One |
| 1917 | Latrobe | 0 | no NWFU football due to World War One |
| 1918 | Latrobe | 0 | no NWFU football due to World War One |
| 1919 | Latrobe | 0 | no NWFU football due to soldiers returning from World War One, and the influenza epidemic |
| 1920 | Latrobe | 0 | Coventry didn’t play prior to July, and whilst July onwards not researched in full yet, Latrobe played only a handful of games anyway |
| 1921 | Latrobe | 9 | |
| 1922 | Latrobe | 6 | may have played one or two other games at start of July - research incomplete |
| 1923 | Latrobe | 14 | |
| 1924 | Latrobe | 1 | |
| 1925 | Latrobe | 2 | |
| 1926 | Latrobe | 2 | |
| 1927 | Latrobe | 14 | Captained the side for much of season following Mal Woodfull’s withdrawal due to wife’s death |
| Total so far about 88 first-class games. A handful of NWFU representative games may yet be discovered to take tally over 90, but seriously doubt if it will reach 100. The number of NWFA games played from 1897 to 1908, and NWFL games in 1909, also appears to be less than 100. Latrobe disbanded as a club in the very late 1890s, and didn't settle back into extended competition run until 1903. The maximum number of games played by Latrobe in each season from 1903 to 1909 is as follows: 18, 18, 12, 15, 10, 8, 8. = 89 That leaves Coventry with, at the most, about 180-190 senior games, not the ridiculous figure of 500 which has been published in the past. | |||
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