Dick Gibbs

This article is about the Australian rules footballer. For the basketball player, see Dick Gibbs (basketball).

Dick Gibbs
Personal information
Full name Richard Horace Maconochie Gibbs
Date of birth (1893-02-04)4 February 1893
Place of birth Warracknabeal, Victoria
Date of death 19 July 1916(1916-07-19) (aged 23)
Place of death Fleurbaix, France[1]
Original team(s) Caulfield Grammarians
Playing career1
Years Club Games (Goals)
1912–14 University 35 (3)
1915 Melbourne 00 (0)
Total 35 (3)
1 Playing statistics correct to the end of 1915.
Sources: AFL Tables, AustralianFootball.com

Richard Horace Maconochie Gibbs MC (4 February 1893 – 19 July 1916), a medical student and an Australian rules footballer, played with the Melbourne University Football Club in the Victorian Football League.[2][3]

When the University team withdrew from the VFL competition in 1915, he was transferred to the Melbourne Football Club, but never played a game due to his enlistment in the First AIF. He was killed in action, in France, on 19 July 1916.

  1. ^ Main, J. & Allen, D., "Gibbs, Richard MC", pp.71-72 in Main, J. & Allen, D., Fallen — The Ultimate Heroes: Footballers Who Never Returned From War, Crown Content, (Melbourne), 2002.
  2. ^ Holmesby, Russell; Main, Jim (2014). The Encyclopedia of AFL Footballers: every AFL/VFL player since 1897 (10th ed.). Melbourne, Victoria: Bas Publishing. p. 283. ISBN 978-1-921496-32-5.
  3. ^ Note that, in many instances, contemporary newspaper sports reports (mistakenly) give his family name as Gibb, rather than Gibbs (often using both spellings in the same item; e.g., Football: Magpies in the Wet: Collingwood Defeat University, The Argus, (Monday, 2 June 1913), p4).
    It is clear from the VFL records that he is the only "Gibb" or "Gibbs" to play for the Melbourne University over its entire time in the VFL competition (1908-1914).