Mal Seddon

Mal Seddon
Personal information
Full name	Malcolm Seddon
Date of birth	31 May 1888
Date of death	30 August 1955 (aged 67)
Original team(s)	Collingwood District
Debut	18 July 1911, Collingwood v. Geelong, at Corio Oval
Height/Weight	182 cm / 81 kg
Playing career^1
Years	Club	Games (Goals)
1911–15, 1919-21	Collingwood	102 (56)
^1 Playing statistics correct to the end of 1921 season.
Career highlights
1919 Premiership Team

Malcolm 'Doc' Seddon (31 May 1888 – 30 August 1955)^[1] was an Australian rules footballer who played with Collingwood in the Victorian Football League (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.^[2]

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.^[3] 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.

References

1. "Mal Seddon". Collingwood Forever. Retrieved 6 September 2014.
2. New look MCG honours the ANZACs
3. Don't mess with Anzac spirit

External links

• Mal Seddon's statistics from AFL Tables