Bryan Cosgrave
Australian rules footballer
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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.
Clifton Hill, Victoria
Melbourne, Victoria
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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 | |||||||||||||||
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.
