George Hastings (footballer)

George Hastings
Personal information
Date of birth	13 January 1877
Place of birth	Belfast, Northern Ireland
Date of death	29 January 1956(1956-01-29) (aged 79)
Original team(s)	North Melbourne (VFA)
Playing career¹
Years	Club	Games (Goals)
1897–1904	Essendon	107 (25)
Umpiring career
1905–10	VFL	Field umpire	8
¹ Playing statistics correct to the end of 1904.

George A. Hastings (13 January 1877 – 29 January 1956) was an Australian rules footballer who played with Essendon in the early years of the Victorian Football League (VFL).

Hastings usually played on the wing but was also a centreman at times. A member of Essendon's inaugural premiership team in 1897 and again in 1901, Hastings also played in losing Grand Final sides in 1898 and 1902. He represented the Victorian interstate team against South Australia in 1903. His career ended when he began suffering from rheumatic fever and he later returned to the VFL as an umpire.^[1]

References

↑ "Player-umpires". AFL Umpires Association. Retrieved 26 June 2015.

Sources

George Hastings's statistics from AFL Tables
Holmesby, Russell and Main, Jim (2007). The Encyclopedia of AFL Footballers. 7th ed. Melbourne: Bas Publishing.
Essendon Football Club profile

Essendon Football Club 1897 VFL premiers

Essendon won the finals series with 3 wins and 0 losses

Anderson Barry Campbell Cleghorn Cochrane Collins Croft Ferguson Forbes Gavin Groves Hastings Kearney Kinnear Martin Officer O'Loughlin Stuckey (c) Sykes Vautin Waugh Wright

Essendon Football Club 1901 VFL premiers

Essendon 6.7 (43) defeated Collingwood 2.4 (16), at the Lake Oval

Anderson Barry M. Collins T. Collins (c) Gavin Griffith Hastings Hiskins Kinnear Larkin Mann Martin McKenzie Robinson Stuckey Thurgood Vollugi Wright

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