Angelo Congear

Angelo Congear
Personal information
Full name Angelo Nicholas Goucar Congear
Nickname(s) Congy
Date of birth 1888
Date of death 9 August 1986[1][2]
Original team(s) Australs (1902-1906)
Semaphore Centrals (1908)
Position(s) Rover
Playing career
Years Club Games (Goals)
1908–1922 Port Adelaide 160 (222)[3]
Representative team honours
Years Team Games (Goals)
1910–1919 South Australia 15 (35)[4]
Career highlights

Angelo Congear (1888–1986) was an Australian rules footballer who played for the Port Adelaide Football Club in the South Australian National Football League between 1908 and 1922.

Junior Football (1902-1908)

Congear started playing football in 1902 with the Australs Football Club. In 1908 he started playing for Semaphore Centrals, an affiliate of the Port Adelaide Football Club who he would debut for later that year.[5]

Port Adelaide (1908-1922)

Due to a lack of definitive records, it is not know how many games he played, but it is claimed that he only missed one game during his fifteen seasons with Port Adelaide[6] and that he played over 200 games, including seven Grand finals.[7] Upon his induction into the Port Adelaide Football Club Hall of Fame he was listed as having played over 150 games.[3]

A reporter for the Daily Herald of Adelaide considered him to be the best player during Port Adelaide's 1914 Championship of Australia Victory.[8]

Reputation

Angelo Congear was considered to be one of the finest rovers in South Australia in his era.[9]

Personal Life

The Australian born son of a Greek immigrant from an island in Greece, John Angelo Congear, who lived to be 101 years old.[10]

References

  1. ↑ All Public Member Photos & Scanned Documents results for Congear
  2. ↑ https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:QVMZ-2YJT
  3. 1 2 Hall of Fame
  4. ↑ Devaney, John. "Angelo Congear". Australian Football.com.
  5. ↑ "Thirteen Seasons". Daily Herald. XII, (3581). South Australia. 9 September 1921. p. 7. Retrieved 10 November 2016 – via National Library of Australia.
  6. ↑ "Charity Football". The News. Adelaide: National Library of Australia. 30 September 1924. p. 3 Edition: Home Edition. Retrieved 26 November 2014.
  7. ↑ "Thirteen Seasons.". Daily Herald. Adelaide: National Library of Australia. 9 September 1921. p. 7. Retrieved 26 November 2014.
  8. ↑ "Ports V. Carlton". Daily Herald (Adelaide, SA : 1910 - 1924). Adelaide, SA: National Library of Australia. 5 October 1914. p. 2. Retrieved 15 July 2015.
  9. ↑ Rucci, Michelangelo (31 July 2009). "Great game's top recruits".
  10. ↑ "Mr. J. A. Congear Dies, Aged 101.". The News. Adelaide: National Library of Australia. 12 October 1936. p. 7. Retrieved 26 November 2014.
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