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Collingwood: Silver-plated tray (64 x 38 cm), engraved at…
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18-Dec-2012
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Collingwood: Silver-plated tray (64 x 38 cm), engraved at centre 'Presented to W.Proudfoot Esq, By the Collingwood Football Club, on His Retirement From the Game, & in Recognition of His Valuable Services Rendered Both As Player & Captain to the Club. March 29th 1900'. William Proudfoot played 108 games 1897-1906. a giant in Collingwood's early history, Proudfoot was a powerful, vigorous defender who tipped the scales at over 16 stone. He was a policeman whose career often became entangled with his football. in 1896 he came to the aid of an umpire at North Melbourne and was savagely beaten. The assailant received three months in jail. on another occasion Proudfoot picked up an intruder on the ground by the scruff of his neck and seat of the pants and deposited him over the fence. Proudfoot at first declined the captaincy in 1898 because he was posted at Kyneton, but eventually accepted when given travelling expenses. in 1903 the police commissioner said that police could not play football. Proudfoot kept going, under an alias and was part of the premiership side. He had played in the fl ag team a year earlier and in the runner-up side of 1901 when his injury in the game was catastrophic for Collingwood. He only played a handfull of games in 1905, but was still recalled for the grand final. in 1918 he won a Royal Humane Society Award for bravery in stopping a pair of bolting horses in Swanston Street
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Memorabilia: Sporting - AFL/VFL