{{short description|Australian rules footballer}} {{Use dmy dates|date=September 2015}} {{Use Australian English|date=September 2015}} {{Infobox AFL biography | name = George Cowell | image = | fullname = Albert David George Cowell | birth_date = {{birth date|1870|11|01|df=y}} | birth_place = Ballarat East, Victoria | death_date = {{death date and age|1937|04|27|1870|11|01|df=yes}} | death_place = Ballarat | originalteam = Beaufort | height = | weight = | position = | statsend = 1900 | years1 = 1896 | club1 = South Ballarat | games_goals1 = | years2 = 1898 | club2 = {{AFL Col}} | games_goals2 = 11 (2) | years3 = 1899 | club3 = {{AFL Car}} | games_goals3 = {{0}}7 (4) | years4 = 1900 | club4 = North Melbourne (VFA) | games_goals4 = {{0}}1 (0) | games_goalstotal = | careerhighlights = }}

'''Albert David George Cowell''' (1 November 1870 – 27 April 1937) was an Australian rules footballer who played with Collingwood and Carlton in the Victorian Football League (VFL).<ref name=encyc>{{cite book |title=The Encyclopedia of AFL Footballers: every AFL/VFL player since 1897 |last=Holmesby|first=Russell|last2=Main|first2=Jim |year=2009 |edition=8th |isbn=978-1-921496-00-4 |publisher=BAS Publishing |location=Seaford, Victoria |page=176}}</ref>

==Family== The third of 12 children born to Edmund Cowell (1843–1918),<ref>[http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article154724702 Obituary, ''The Ballarat Star'', (Tuesday, 5 March 1918), p.1.]</ref><ref>[http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article119544528 Obituary, ''The Ballan Times'', (Thursday, 7 March 1918), p.2.]</ref><ref>[http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article119545473 Walsh, J.H., "Early Ballan, N.51", ''The Ballan Times'', (Thursday, 1 August 1918), p.3.]</ref> and Caroline Cowell (1841–1910), née Pierpoint,<ref>[http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article265307515 Obituary, ''The Ballan Times'', (Thursday, 12 May 1910), p.2.]</ref> Albert David George Cowell was born at Ballarat East on 1 November 1870.

George Cowell married Emily Maud Nichols (1869–1942) in early 1894 and they had three children: Charles Aubrey Nicholas Cowell (1894–1917),<ref>[http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article1627351 Australian Casualties: List No.313: Victoria: Missing, ''The Argus'', (Friday, 22 June 1917), p.5.]</ref><ref>[http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article1638540 Australian Casualties: List No.328: Victoria: Killed in Action, ''The Argus'', (Saturday, 9 February 1918), p.19.]</ref><ref>[https://www.awm.gov.au/collection/R1728258 Roll of Honour: Private Charles Aubrey Nicholas Cowell (5880), ''Australian War Memorial''.]</ref> Lydia Amy Isabel Cowell (1896–1971), later Mrs. Hector Godfrey Smith, and George Cowell (1897–1970).

==Football== ===South Ballarat=== Originally from Beaufort,<ref>{{cite news |url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article209789317 |title=FOOTBALL |newspaper=The Ballarat Star |volume=38 |issue=11636 |location=Ballarat, Victoria |date=18 July 1893 |page=4}}</ref> Cowell played with South Ballarat in 1896.<ref>{{cite news |url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article207486780 |title=SPORTING NEWS |newspaper=The Ballarat Star |issue=12529 |location=Ballarat, Victoria |date=1 June 1896 |page=4}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article207487411 |title=SPORTING NEWS. |newspaper=The Ballarat Star |issue=12539 |location=Ballarat, Victoria |date=12 June 1896 |page=4}}</ref>

===Collingwood=== Cowell played 11 games with Collingwood in the 1898 VFL season.<ref>{{cite news |url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article241620306 |title=THE SEASON'S START |newspaper=The Herald |issue=5559 |location=Melbourne, Victoria |date=13 May 1898 |page=3}}</ref>

===Carlton=== Cowell transferred to Carlton at the start of the 1899 VFL season<ref>{{cite news |url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article202623327 |title=FOOTBALL |newspaper=The Age |issue=13786 |location=Melbourne, Victoria |date=11 May 1899 |page=7}}</ref> and played seven games for the Blues.<ref>{{cite news |url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article241857900 |title=WORLD OF SPORT |newspaper=The Herald |issue=5918 |location=Melbourne, Victoria |date=7 July 1899 |page=3}}</ref>

===North Melbourne=== Cowell then transferred to North Melbourne at the start of the 1900 season<ref>{{cite news |url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article190056359 |title=FOOTBALL |newspaper=The Age |issue=14,090 |location=Melbourne, Victoria |date=3 May 1900 |page=3}}</ref> but played only a single senior game for them in Round 1.<ref>{{cite news |url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article103379339 |title=FOOTBALL |newspaper=North Melbourne Courier And West Melbourne Advertiser |volume=V |issue=240 |location=North Melbourne, Victoria |date=11 May 1900 |page=3}}</ref>

==Later life== Cowell worked as a baker and pastrycook, returning to Ballarat after his football career where he died in April 1937.

== Notes == {{reflist}}

== External links == * {{AFL Tables|ref=G/George_Cowell.html}} * {{AustralianFootball|ref=george%2Bcowell/1153}} * [http://www.thevfaproject.org/pages/Players/Cowell,_George.php George Cowell's playing statistics] from The VFA Project * [http://www.blueseum.org/tiki-index.php?page=George+Cowell George Cowell's profile] at Blueseum * [https://forever.collingwoodfc.com.au/players/george-cowell/ George Cowell's profile] at Collingwood Forever

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