{{short description|Australian rules footballer}} {{Use dmy dates|date=September 2015}} {{Use Australian English|date=September 2015}} {{Infobox AFL biography | name = Joe Groves | image = | fullname = Joseph Henry Groves | birth_date = 18 May 1874 | birth_place = Ballarat East, Victoria | death_date = {{death date and age|1961|7|3|1874|5|18|df=yes}} | death_place = Macleod, Victoria | originalteam = Footscray (VFA) | height = <!-- ### cm --> | weight = <!-- ### kg --> | position = | statsend = 1908 | years1 = 1897–1900, 1908 | club1 = {{AFL Ess}} | games_goals1 = 58 (0) | careerhighlights = *VFL premiership player: 1897 }}
'''Joe "Corker" Groves''' (18 May 1874 – 3 July 1961) was an Australian rules footballer who played for the Essendon Football Club in the Victorian Football League (VFL). A smart winger whose tact overpowered other players, he played in Essendon's first premiership side in 1897. After leaving Essendon in 1900, he had stints with Footscray and North Melbourne in the Victorian Football Association (VFA), and later returned to play one game in the 1908 VFL season.
==Sources== {{Commons category}} * Holmesby, Russell & Main, Jim (2007). The Encyclopedia of AFL Footballers. 7th ed. Melbourne: Bas Publishing. *{{AFL Tables | J/Joe_Groves }} *[https://web.archive.org/web/20120424081943/http://www.essendonfc.com.au/team/player-past.asp?id=392 Essendon Football Club profile]
{{1897 Essendon premiership players}}
{{DEFAULTSORT:Groves, Joe}} Category:Australian rules footballers from Ballarat Category:Essendon Football Club (VFA) players Category:Essendon Football Club players Category:Essendon Football Club premiership players Category:North Melbourne Football Club (VFA) players Category:Footscray Football Club (VFA) players Category:1874 births Category:1961 deaths Category:VFL/AFL premiership players
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