Tuesday, November 9, 2010

time line of sir Douglas Nicholls

1906 -- born in NSW

1914 -- eight years old Douglas saw his 16 years old sister taken to Cootamundra

1919 -- when he was 13, he worked with his uncle as a tar boy and general hand on sheepstations.

1927 -- he played before a crowd of 9000 people and was a huge success.

1932 -- Doug joined Fitzroy

1939 -- problems with a knee injury forced him to retire

1940 -- he was back at Northcote as a non-playing coach

1 comment:

  1. A good bigraphy time line but you need to specify that he was playing Aussie rules football. Thanks for blogging...

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