List of VFL debuts in 1898

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Fitzroy’s Fred Fontaine made his debut in the 1898 VFL season
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The 1898 Victorian Football League (VFL) season was the second season of the VFL. The season saw 138 Australian rules footballers make their senior VFL debut and six players transferring to new clubs having previously played in the 1897 VFL season.

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Name Club Age at debut Round debuted Games Goals Notes
Len Morrison Carlton 25 years, 142 days 1[1] 56 7
Pat Considine Carlton 22 years, 345 days 17[2] 48 12
Bill Sharkey Carlton 24 years, 236 days 1[3] 47 0
Charlie Curtis Carlton 19 years, 155 days 2[4] 21 2
Jim Pender Carlton 20 years, 315 days 1[5] 15 4 Brother of Dan, Mick and Laurie Pender.
George Young Carlton 19 years, 270 days 10[6] 15 1
Tommy O’Day Carlton 24 years, 218 days 1[7] 13 8
Charlie Brown Carlton 24 years, 259 days 1[8] 12 1
Herman Dohrmann Carlton 24 years, 277 days 6[9] 12 2
Mick Donaghy Carlton 20 years, 223 days 8[10] 10 0
Bill Churchyard Carlton 20 years, 157 days 9[11] 10 4
Dick Stewart Carlton 25 years, 155 days 14[12] 6 0
Jim Coucher Carlton 23 years, 164 days 5[13] 5 0
Dan Pender Carlton 25 years, 68 days 3[14] 4 0 Brother of Jim, Mick and Laurie Pender.
Les Vernon Carlton 18 years, 90 days 15[15] 3 1
Des Meadowcroft Carlton 18 years, 54 days 3[16] 2 0
Alf Moore Carlton 25 years, 305 days 3[17] 2 0
Fred Barlow Carlton 24 years, 250 days 1[18] 1 0
Mick Pender Carlton 29 years, 185 days 2[19] 1 0 Brother of Dan, Jim and Laurie Pender.
Tommy Kinman Carlton 22 years, 319 days 4[20] 1 1
Jim Balharry Carlton 30 years, 119 days 16[21] 1 0
Jack Douglas Carlton 25 years, 308 days 17[22] 1 0
Arthur Leach Collingwood 22 years, 94 days 5[23] 173 92 Brother of Fred and Ted Leach. Previously played for Essendon.
Matthew Fell Collingwood 22 years, 264 days 1[24] 116 21
Bill Kennedy Collingwood 22 years, 284 days 1[25] 19 1
Mick Lynch Collingwood 20 years, 2 days 1[26] 14 15
George Cowell Collingwood 27 years, 194 days 1[27] 7 4
Bobby McCubbin Collingwood 29 years, 332 days 1[28] 6 0
Bob Bird Collingwood 23 years, 71 days 15[29] 1 0
Jimmy Larkin Essendon 23 years, 199 days 1[30] 73 61
Bill Jackson Essendon 24 years, 73 days 1[31] 27 22
Alec Hall Essendon 29 years, 130 days 1[32] 19 18
Corrie Gardner Essendon 19 years, 63 days 1[33] 12 0 Brother of Eric Gardner. Represented Australia at the 1904 Summer Olympics.
Conrad ten Brink Essendon 23 years, 103 days 1[34] 12 10
Alf Gray Essendon 23 years, 280 days 15[35] 5 0
Pat Barr Essendon 20 years, 291 days 1[36] 3 1
Pos Watson Essendon 29 years, 272 days 3[37] 2 0
Dave Currie Essendon 22 years, 9 days 4[38] 1 1
Horrie Stewart Essendon 26 years, 364 days 4[39] 1 0
Fred Fontaine Fitzroy 23 years, 359 days 9[40] 110 33
Harry Clarke Fitzroy 21 years, 231 days 10[41] 91 3
Eddie Drohan Fitzroy 21 years, 301 days 1[42] 75 5
Bill Potter Fitzroy 26 years, 95 days 1[43] 60 8
Alf McDougall Fitzroy 21 years, 193 days 6[44] 59 28 Father of Roy McDougall.
Bill Dalton Fitzroy 26 years, 154 days 1[45] 57 9 Brother of Jack Dalton.
Johnny Power Fitzroy 24 years, 41 days 2[46] 10 2
Charlie Jenkins Fitzroy 19 years, 331 days 1[47] 8 0
George Shaw Fitzroy 21 years, 132 days 10[48] 5 1
Charlie Doherty Fitzroy 22 years, 121 days 1[49] 2 0
Arthur Davidson Fitzroy 22 years, 294 days 7[50] 2 0
Jim Tulloch Fitzroy 19 years, 321 days 1[51] 1 0
Les Bailiff Geelong 20 years, 327 days 9[52] 63 0
Ernie Leighton Geelong 26 years, 72 days 5[53] 29 18
Jack O’Loughlin Geelong 24 years, 277 days 1[54] 22 1
Alf Dear Geelong 19 years, 233 days 2[55] 22 3
Dick Walker Geelong 25 years, 284 days 2[56] 14 10
Walter Cooke Geelong 21 years, 184 days 2[57] 9 1
Alec King Geelong 24 years, 52 days 11[58] 6 3
Jack Dore Geelong 23 years, 1 days 3[59] 5 0
Arthur McKenzie Geelong 18 years, 238 days 14[60] 4 0
Ossie Calvert Geelong 18 years, 9 days 13[61] 2 0
Bill Robertson Geelong 19 years, 51 days 2[62] 1 0
Ernest Anderson Geelong 20 years, 340 days 11[63] 1 0
Bill McClelland Melbourne 23 years, 164 days 11[64] 75 3
Les Rippon Melbourne 22 years, 212 days 12[65] 55 6
Vic Cumberland Melbourne 21 years, 54 days 15[66] 50 15 At 43, the oldest player to have played in the VFL. Brother of Cec Cumberland.
Richard Pirrie Melbourne 19 years, 29 days 1[67] 24 11
Eddie Byers Melbourne 23 years, 93 days 1[68] 20 1
Denis Lanigan Melbourne 23 years, 361 days 1[69] 16 1 Previously played for Collingwood.
Jack Davidson Melbourne 23 years, 95 days 13[70] 68 3
Tom Davey Melbourne 22 years, 45 days 1[71] 8 0
Pat Scanlan Melbourne 19 years, 353 days 8[72] 6 2
Les MacPherson Melbourne 17 years, 362 days 1[73] 5 1
Percy Howard Melbourne 27 years, 97 days 2[74] 5 4
Frank Staines Melbourne 21 years, 195 days 2[75] 5 0
Johnny Coghlan Melbourne 22 years, 76 days 9[76] 5 0
Dick Robertson Melbourne 21 years, 81 days 13[77] 5 0
Harold Rippon Melbourne 24 years, 178 days 14[78] 5 0 Brother of Les and Norm Rippon.
Jimmy Aitken Melbourne 26 years, 34 days 7[79] 4 0 Previously played for Carlton. First player in the VFL to play senior premiership matches for two clubs in the same season.
Art Atkinson Melbourne 20 years, 140 days 14[80] 4 1
Bobby Royle Melbourne 19 years, 263 days 1[81] 3 1
Bill Atkinson Melbourne 21 years, 319 days 15[82] 3 0
Bob Moore Melbourne 26 years, 103 days 1[83] 2 0
Norm Rippon Melbourne 20 years, 236 days 1[84] 1 0 Brother of Les and Harold Rippon.
Henry Hagenauer Melbourne 19 years, 279 days 13[85] 1 0
Howard Smith St Kilda 20 years, 68 days 1[86] 95 6
Andy Stewart St Kilda 21 years, 243 days 3[87] 49 47 Brother of George and Walter Stewart.
George Stewart St Kilda 24 years, 184 days 3[88] 29 3
Tom Blake St Kilda 24 years, 297 days 1[89] 24 4 Previously played for Carlton.
Johnny Dando St Kilda 20 years, 177 days 3[90] 23 3
George Morgan St Kilda 23 years, 122 days 11[91] 16 1
Jim Morehouse St Kilda 34 years, 48 days 1[92] 10 0
Walter Stewart St Kilda 23 years, 36 days 2[93] 10 0
Dave Gibson St Kilda 19 years, 96 days 3[94] 10 0
Tom Fogarty St Kilda 20 years, 89 days 7[95] 10 0
Jim Warne St Kilda 19 years, 96 days 10[96] 10 1
George May St Kilda 23 years, 236 days 15[97] 10 1
Peter Brady St Kilda 22 years, 359 days 1[98] 8 3
Percy Damman St Kilda 22 years, 42 days 7[99] 7 0
Bill Woodhouse St Kilda 24 years, 284 days 8[100] 7 2 Previously played for Carlton.
Artie Archer St Kilda 26 years, 201 days 1[101] 5 0
Horrie Lyons St Kilda 22 years, 130 days 1[102] 5 1 Previously played for South Melbourne.
Mark Cumming St Kilda 25 years, 291 days 1[103] 4 0
Richardson St Kilda 24 years, 245 days 1[104] 3 0
Billy Porter St Kilda 23 years, 33 days 15[105] 3 0
Harold Brookes St Kilda 22 years, 73 days 7[106] 2 2 Brother of Herbert and Norman Brookes.
Alf Clauscen St Kilda 23 years, 78 days 13[107] 2 0
David Gaunson St Kilda 18 years, 253 days 13[108] 1 0
Edmund Kirwin St Kilda 22 years, 044 days 1[109] 1 0
Harry Barr St Kilda 18 years, 133 days 3[110] 1 0
Bert Kay St Kilda 21 years, 14 days 4[111] 1 0
Edgar Maddox St Kilda 20 years, 41 days 6[112] 1 0
Don Walker St Kilda 24 years, 335 days 6[113] 1 0
Harry Thompson St Kilda 26 years, 241 days 12[114] 1 0
Ralph Hatch St Kilda 22 years, 104 days 13[115] 1 0
George Hunter St Kilda 24 years, 193 days 13[116] 1 0
Alf Smith St Kilda 31 years, 122 days 14[117] 1 0
Alf Parker St Kilda 22 years, 125 days 16[118] 1 0
Herb Louch St Kilda 23 years, 249 days 17[119] 1 0
Jack Purse St Kilda 19 years, 74 days 17[120] 1 0 Brother of Hugh Purse.
Jack Todd St Kilda 19 years, 134 days 17[121] 1 0
Henri Jeanneret South Melbourne 20 years, 133 days 1[122] 79 12 Born in Switzerland.
Albert Trim South Melbourne 22 years, 220 days 1[123] 65 0
Charlie Colgan South Melbourne 19 years, 314 days 1[124] 37 43
George Cornelius South Melbourne 23 years, 275 days 1[125] 16 2
Warwick Armstrong South Melbourne 19 years, 111 days 17[126] 16 18 Captained the Australian cricket team.
George Sparrow South Melbourne 28 years, 175 days 7[127] 14 2
Arch McNair South Melbourne 17 years, 298 days 11[128] 13 0
Johnny Davis South Melbourne 21 years, 208 days 1[129] 10 6
Jim Jolly South Melbourne 25 years, 342 days 3[130] 7 0
Val Robertson South Melbourne 19 years, 110 days 12[131] 7 0
Eddie Brown South Melbourne 20 years, 216 days 1[132] 5 1
Jason Ralph South Melbourne 25 years, 348 days 6[133] 5 0
John McDermott South Melbourne 26 years, 39 days 8[134] 5 3
Harry Gardner South Melbourne 20 years, 163 days 13[135] 5 0
Artie Machin South Melbourne 23 years, 265 days 3[136] 3 0
Bob O’Donnell South Melbourne 28 years, 63 days 8[137] 3 2
Joe Chandler South Melbourne 20 years, 336 days 14[138] 3 2
Billy Kenny South Melbourne 26 years, 239 days 1[139] 2 0 Father of Bill Kenny.
Joe Strong South Melbourne 22 years, 36 days 10[140] 2 0
Tom Smith South Melbourne 25 years, 260 days 11[141] 2 0
Jack O’Hara South Melbourne 31 years, 337 days 15[142] 2 1
George Taylor South Melbourne 21 years, 331 days 13[143] 1 0
Jim McArthur South Melbourne 28 years, 38 days 14[144] 1 0

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