List of VFL debuts in 1911

The 1911 Victorian Football League (VFL) season was the fifteenth season of the VFL. The season saw 135 Australian rules footballers make their senior VFL debut and a further 30 transfer to new clubs having previously played in the VFL.

Club	VFL debuts	Change of club
Carlton	13	4
Collingwood	10	2
Essendon	8	3
Fitzroy	18	4
Geelong	8	0
Melbourne	10	5
Richmond	12	2
St Kilda	32	8
South Melbourne	6	1
University	18	1
Total	135	30

Name	Club	Age at debut	Round debuted	Games	Goals	Notes
Viv Valentine	Carlton	23 years, 154 days	2^[1]	116	91
Billy Dick	Carlton	21 years, 322 days	6^[2]	100	35	Uncle of Ian and Alexander Dick. Previously played for Fitzroy.
Gordon Green	Carlton	21 years, 88 days	5^[3]	92	85
Ned Bowen	Carlton	21 years, 260 days	1^[4]	28	14
Roy Johnson	Carlton	19 years, 285 days	1^[5]	15	21
Fen McDonald	Carlton	20 years, 65 days	15^[6]	10	4	Brother of Arch and Ted McDonald.
Harry Matheson	Carlton	19 years, 321 days	1^[7]	7	3	Previously played for St Kilda.
Tommy Hughes	Carlton	20 years, 145 days	9^[8]	6	1
Bruce Campbell	Carlton	20 years, 362 days	1^[9]	3	0
Charlie Taylor	Carlton	32 years, 1042 days	1^[10]	3	0	Previously played for Melbourne.
Herbert Cock	Carlton	23 years, 67 days	4^[11]	3	0	Previously played for Collingwood.
Harry Jane	Carlton	20 years, 299 days	6^[12]	3	1
Les Rowe	Carlton	20 years, 189 days	2^[13]	2	0
Bert Cowley	Carlton	25 years, 129 days	9^[14]	2	0
Fred Marriott	Carlton	25 years, 137 days	11^[15]	2	0
Tom Hanson	Carlton	19 years, 301 days	1^[16]	1	0
John Gunter	Carlton	27 years, 334 days	15^[17]	1	0
Alec Mutch	Collingwood	22 years, 29 days	1^[18]	144	5
Jack Green	Collingwood	23 years, 272 days	5^[19]	108	6	Previously played for Geelong.
George Anderson	Collingwood	26 years, 0 days	6^[20]	104	8
Mal Seddon	Collingwood	23 years, 38 days	12^[21]	102	56
Dan Minogue	Collingwood	19 years, 237 days	1^[22]	85	37
Paddy Rowan	Collingwood	21 years, 364 days	5^[23]	82	28
Jim Sharp	Collingwood	29 years, 17 days	6^[24]	18	0	Previously played for Fitzroy.
Eddie Thomas	Collingwood	20 years, 14 days	12^[25]	7	1
Billy Hammond	Collingwood	23 years, 214 days	5^[26]	4	1	Brother of Charlie and Jack Hammond.
Jack Sheehan	Collingwood	20 years, 349 days	3^[27]	3	0
John Somer	Collingwood	20 years, 21 days	3^[28]	1	0
Billy Holmes	Collingwood	21 years, 114 days	4^[29]	1	0
Jack Kirby	Essendon	22 years, 0 days	11^[30]	77	113
Wally Chalmers	Essendon	20 years, 232 days	2^[31]	73	11
Dan Hanley	Essendon	28 years, 38 days	10^[32]	67	9
Bill Walker	Essendon	24 years, 243 days	1^[33]	66	53
Vernon Hazel	Essendon	21 years, 204 days	4^[34]	12	4	Amateur welterweight champion of Victoria in 1916. Previously played for St Kilda and Melbourne.
Rupe Benstead	Essendon	21 years, 342 days	3^[35]	4	0
Johnny Hart	Essendon	22 years, 266 days	10^[36]	4	0
Charlie Hay	Essendon	29 years, 213 days	7^[37]	2	0	Previously played for Carlton.
Edgar Masters	Essendon	22 years, 266 days	12^[38]	1	0
Artie Freeman	Essendon	23 years, 308 days	14^[39]	1	0	Previously played for Collingwood and Fitzroy.
Jimmy Jones	Essendon	22 years, 93 days	14^[40]	1	0
Fred Bamford	Fitzroy	24 years, 47 days	5^[41]	119	1
George Shaw	Fitzroy	25 years, 35 days	2^[42]	117	48
Charlie Norris	Fitzroy	29 years, 343 days	11^[43]	106	19	Oldest player to debut in the VFL/AFL and go on to play 100 games. Great-great-grandfather of Will Hoskin-Elliott. Previously played for Collingwood.
Teddy Buist	Fitzroy	25 years, 360 days	1^[44]	59	15
Cliff Hutton	Fitzroy	23 years, 283 days	2^[45]	34	7
Frank Lamont	Fitzroy	24 years, 263 days	1^[46]	17	9
Tom Reardon	Fitzroy	23 years, 304 days	3^[47]	16	4
Bruce Campbell	Fitzroy	21 years, 51 days	10^[48]	15	27	Previously played for Carlton.
Clarrie Dall	Fitzroy	23 years, 275 days	6^[49]	10	10
Charlie Dowell	Fitzroy	23 years, 129 days	7^[50]	7	0
Charlie McMillan	Fitzroy	23 years, 177 days	10^[51]	7	3
Jack Furness	Fitzroy	20 years, 249 days	1^[52]	6	3
Tom McCluskey	Fitzroy	20 years, 255 days	3^[53]	5	0	Previously played for Carlton.
Thornton Clarke	Fitzroy	19 years, 174 days	4^[54]	4	0
Ernie Everett	Fitzroy	26 years, 116 days	1^[55]	3	0
Bill Moxon	Fitzroy	26 years, 121 days	6^[56]	3	0
Fred Markby	Fitzroy	26 years, 121 days	2^[57]	2	0
Tom Moloughney	Fitzroy	22 years, 203 days	1^[58]	1	0
Danny Murphy	Fitzroy	27 years, 66 days	1^[59]	1	0
Eric Watson	Fitzroy	17 years, 230 days	1^[60]	1	1
Artie Freeman	Fitzroy	23 years, 231 days	2^[61]	1	0	Previously played for Collingwood.
Alby Sheehan	Fitzroy	23 years, 263 days	15^[62]	1	0
Arthur Francis	Fitzroy	24 years, 258 days	16^[63]	1	0
Jack Gray	Geelong	25 years, 311 days	10^[64]	77	8
Leo Healy	Geelong	20 years, 240 days	9^[65]	75	23
Neil Freeman	Geelong	21 years, 8 days	1^[66]	45	1	Later became an Australian Army Brigadier.
Bert Schofield	Geelong	20 years, 352 days	16^[67]	11	6
Sid Smith	Geelong	20 years, 186 days	1^[68]	5	4
Tom Martin	Geelong	22 years, 200 days	7^[69]	5	5
Norm Grigg	Geelong	17 years, 318 days	2^[70]	4	1
Alan Cordner	Geelong	21 years, 105 days	16^[71]	3	0	Half brother of Laurence Cordner and cousin of Harry and "Ted" Cordner.
Alf George	Melbourne	26 years, 241 days	2^[72]	55	12	Previously played for Essendon.
Wally Naismith	Melbourne	29 years, 333 days	1^[73]	36	0	Twin brother of Charlie Naismith, brother-in-law of Alf Dummett and father of Alby and Herb Naismith. Previously played for Fitzroy.
Ted Politz	Melbourne	21 years, 338 days	6^[74]	26	19
Bill Hickey	Melbourne	25 years, 119 days	5^[75]	20	1
Mal Kennedy	Melbourne	18 years, 216 days	6^[76]	17	4
Leo Rush	Melbourne	20 years, 321 days	5^[77]	6	4	Brother of Bob, Bryan, Gerald and Kevin Rush.
Ben Sheppard	Melbourne	20 years, 331 days	4^[78]	4	1	Played first-class cricket for Victoria.
Billy Irwin	Melbourne	26 years, 204 days	2^[79]	2	1
Ken Edgar	Melbourne	20 years, 337 days	5^[80]	2	0	Previously played for St Kilda.
Harold Curran	Melbourne	23 years, 7 days	9^[81]	2	0
Bill McKeone	Melbourne	22 years, 70 days	1^[82]	1	0
George St John	Melbourne	33 years, 15 days	1^[83]	1	0	Previously played for Richmond.
Jack Geggie	Melbourne	29 years, 196 days	3^[84]	1	0	Previously played for Essendon.
Jimmy Nolan	Melbourne	17 years, 289 days	5^[85]	1	0
Jim Moore	Melbourne	20 years, 149 days	14^[86]	1	0
Ted Farrell	Richmond	21 years, 213 days	4^[87]	41	2	Previously played for Fitzroy.
Bill Jones	Richmond	21 years, 213 days	1^[88]	19	3
Joe Price	Richmond	24 years, 341 days	8^[89]	7	2
Les Irwin	Richmond	24 years, 85 days	5^[90]	6	0	Previously played for Melbourne.
Johnny MacGregor	Richmond	21 years, 184 days	7^[91]	4	0
Gerald Hogan	Richmond	19 years, 354 days	17^[92]	4	4
Norm Brooker	Richmond	21 years, 325 days	16^[93]	3	0
Bertie Wollacott	Richmond	21 years, 136 days	16^[94]	3	3
Dave Mahoney	Richmond	18 years, 341 days	2^[95]	2	1
Mick Schade	Richmond	24 years, 63 days	5^[96]	2	1
George May	Richmond	19 years, 234 days	1^[97]	1	0
Arch Robinson	Richmond	20 years, 301 days	2^[98]	1	0
Matt Incigneri	Richmond	20 years, 141 days	10^[99]	1	1	Brother of Len Incigneri.
Artie Harrison	Richmond	18 years, 171 days	15^[100]	1	0
Roy Cazaly	St Kilda	18 years, 197 days	15^[101]	99	39	Inducted into the Australian Football Hall of Fame as one of the inaugural twelve Legends. Brother of Ernest Cazaly.
Ernie Sellars	St Kilda	21 years, 11 days	11^[102]	47	119
Paul White	St Kilda	18 years, 46 days	16^[103]	20	5
Alex MacKenzie	St Kilda	29 years, 134 days	5^[104]	13	1
Bill Patterson	St Kilda	22 years, 240 days	3^[105]	11	0	Coached St Kilda for one match in 1938.
Wally Graham	St Kilda	21 years, 190 days	1^[106]	8	0
Joe Stephens	St Kilda	23 years, 280 days	1^[107]	8	2
Bob Briggs	St Kilda	27 years, 195 days	6^[108]	7	7	Previously played for Fitzroy.
Bill Goddard	St Kilda	31 years, 99 days	6^[109]	7	0	Previously played for South Melbourne and Carlton.
Charlie Taylor	St Kilda	32 years, 177 days	6^[110]	7	1	Previously played for Melbourne and Carlton.
Ted Brown	St Kilda	19 years, 214 days	4^[111]	4	0	Father of Vincent and John Brown.
Aubrey Hart	St Kilda	17 years, 349 days	16^[112]	4	1
Reg Gregson	St Kilda	20 years, 75 days	1^[113]	3	2
Henry Merrett	St Kilda	24 years, 353 days	9^[114]	3	0
Harold Parker	St Kilda	18 years, 264 days	9^[115]	3	0
Bert Butler	St Kilda	22 years, 149 days	12^[116]	3	0
Claude Crowl	St Kilda	18 years, 251 days	15^[117]	3	0	Cousin of Joe Crowl.
Rowley Smith	St Kilda	20 years, 41 days	15^[118]	3	0
Vic Gordon	St Kilda	20 years, 283 days	16^[119]	3	0
Percy Stainer	St Kilda	22 years, 207 days	1^[120]	2	0	Previously played for Richmond.
Albert Biggs	St Kilda	21 years, 354 days	3^[121]	2	0
George O'Connor	St Kilda	19 years, 53 days	4^[122]	2	0	Previously played for Richmond.
Claude Hunt	St Kilda	23 years, 172 days	5^[123]	2	0
Norm Ingham	St Kilda	21 years, 86 days	16^[124]	2	0
Fred Linay	St Kilda	21 years, 23 days	16^[125]	2	2
Sam Mortimer	St Kilda	18 years, 169 days	2^[126]	1	1
Tom Handley	St Kilda	25 years, 147 days	4^[127]	1	0
Arthur Newbound	St Kilda	25 years, 84 days	5^[128]	1	1	Previously played for Fitzroy.
Alby Bowtell	St Kilda	24 years, 32 days	15^[129]	1	0
Peter Donnelly	St Kilda	20 years, 160 days	15^[130]	1	0
Alf Hammond	St Kilda	17 years, 92 days	15^[131]	1	0
Otto O'Pelt	St Kilda	23 years, 167 days	15^[132]	1	0
Tom Soutar	St Kilda	18 years, 135 days	15^[133]	1	0	Represented Australia in the 1919 Inter-Allied Games.
Bill Ward	St Kilda	19 years, 235 days	15^[134]	1	0
Henry Bray	St Kilda	20 years, 67 days	16^[135]	1	0
Brodie Ainslie	St Kilda	20 years, 9 days	16^[136]	1	0
Jack Whittle	St Kilda	21 years, 228 days	17^[137]	1	0
Gordon Robinson	St Kilda	23 years, 143 days	18^[138]	1	0	Brother of Alex, Bill and Fred Robinson and uncle of Alexander William and George Robinson.
Henry McNamara	St Kilda	27 years, 208 days	16^[139]	1	0
Charles Suhr	St Kilda	26 years, 48 days	17^[140]	1	0	Previously played for Melbourne.
Mark Tandy	South Melbourne	18 years, 252 days	3^[141]	207	47
Herbert Milne	South Melbourne	27 years, 115 days	6^[142]	31	14	Previously played for Fitzroy.
Tom Strownix	South Melbourne	24 years, 362 days	1^[143]	14	1
George Deas	South Melbourne	22 years, 339 days	18^[144]	4	3
Ben Main	South Melbourne	23 years, 358 days	3^[145]	1	0
Fred Fielding	South Melbourne	21 years, 263 days	5^[146]	1	0
Ernie George	South Melbourne	23 years, 250 days	10^[147]	1	0	1913 Stawell Gift winner.
Vic Trood	University	19 years, 134 days	1^[148]	41	8
Bill Hinman	University	18 years, 344 days	8^[149]	35	3	Brother of Arthur Hinman.
Eric Woods	University	18 years, 159 days	4^[150]	34	0
Joe Shelley	University	18 years, 223 days	1^[151]	23	11
Allan McCracken	University	22 years, 16 days	1^[152]	22	8
Bill Denehy	University	21 years, 363 days	1^[153]	21	5
Dave Cumming	University	19 years, 247 days	6^[154]	21	34
George Anderson	University	24 years, 156 days	1^[155]	20	1	Previously played for South Melbourne.
Harold Bennett	University	19 years, 324 days	1^[156]	17	2
Bob Thompson	University	20 years, 69 days	3^[157]	14	6
Frank Macky	University	19 years, 159 days	5^[158]	7	2	His parents drowned in the sinking of the RMS Lusitania.
Victor Hurley	University	23 years, 186 days	12^[159]	7	0
Will Armstrong	University	19 years, 31 days	4^[160]	3	0
Ray Whitford	University	21 years, 287 days	16^[161]	3	0
Alan Tait	University	20 years, 70 days	12^[162]	2	0
Reg McGillicuddy	University	19 years, 356 days	13^[163]	2	0
Alec Birrell	University	26 years, 95 days	1^[164]	1	0
Jim Nicholas	University	20 years, 233 days	12^[165]	1	0
Clifton Tucker	University	23 years, 165 days	18^[166]	1	0

List of VFL debuts in 1911

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