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Malcolm Seddon Personal information Birth 31 May 1888 Height and weight 182 cm / 81 kg Playing career¹ Debut 18 July 1911, Collingwood v.
Geelong, at Corio OvalTeam(s) Collingwood (1911–1915, 1919-21)
- 102 games, 56 goals
¹ Statistics to end of 1921 season Career highlights - 1919 Premiership Team
Malcolm 'Doc' Seddon (born 31 May 1888) was an Australian rules footballer who played with Collingwood in the VFL.
Seddon was also a veteran of World War I, where he fought in Europe and spent time in the Middle East from 1915 to 1919. Seddon survived the war and returned to play for Collingwood in 1919.
Controversially, Seddons drill sergeant, a Carlton supporter, put Seddon and Collingwood teammate, Paddy Rowan, through a 10-mile route march on the morning of the 1915 Grand Final.[1]
Whilst overseas, Seddon sent back a horseshoe made from a German bomb along with the remnants of a German aircraft shot down by Australian soldiers at the Battle of the Somme.[2] Seddon sent them to the club as a gesture of good luck to the Magpies. In Seddons absence, Collingwood won the 1917 Premiership.
Items sent back from Seddon during the war can be seen on display at Collingwoods Westpac Centre in Melbourne.
In Seddons first season back after the war, he was a part of the 1919 Collingwood premiership team that defeated Richmond.
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Collingwood Football Club 1919 VFL Premiers Collingwood 11.12 (78) defeated Richmond 7.11 (53), at the Melbourne Cricket Ground Coach: McHale Categories:- 1888 births
- Australian rules footballers from Victoria
- Collingwood Football Club players
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