Bryan Cosgrave
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| Full name | Bryan Cosgrave | ||||||||||||||
| Born | 23 March 1903 Clifton Hill, Victoria | ||||||||||||||
| Died | 22 November 1992 (aged 89) Melbourne, Victoria | ||||||||||||||
| Batting | Right-handed | ||||||||||||||
| Role | Batsman | ||||||||||||||
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| Years | Team | ||||||||||||||
| 1925/26–1931/32 | Victoria | ||||||||||||||
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Source: CricketArchive, 31 December 2014 | |||||||||||||||
Bryan Cosgrave (23 March 1903 – 22 November 1992) was an Australian sportsman who played first-class cricket for Victoria and Australian rules football in the Victorian Football League (VFL) with Fitzroy.
In the 1924 VFL season, Cosgrave played five games and kicked four goals for Fitzroy. It was his only season and he turned his attention to cricket. He was a right-handed batsman top order batsman and made 178 from his four first-class matches, with 100 of them coming in an innings against Tasmania at Hobart in 1931–32.[1]
Cosgrave was also a journalist for The Sporting Globe, contributing VFL match reports from 1934 to 1937.[2][3][4] In print, his name was occasionally misspelled as Brian Cosgrave.[5]
His son James played cricket with Victoria briefly in the 1956–57 season.
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External links
[edit | edit source]- Bryan Cosgrave's playing statistics from AFL Tables
- Bryan Cosgrave at ESPNcricinfo
- 1903 births
- 1992 deaths
- Fitzroy Football Club players
- Australian cricketers
- Victoria cricketers
- Cricketers from Melbourne
- Australian rules footballers from Melbourne
- People from Clifton Hill, Victoria
- 20th-century Australian sportsmen
- Australian rules football biography, 1903 birth stubs
- Australian cricket biography, 1900s birth stubs