# Maurie Collins

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{{Short description|Australian rules footballer (1876–1943)}}
{{Use dmy dates|date=December 2021}}
{{Use Australian English|date=August 2011}}
{{Infobox AFL biography
| name = Maurie Collins
| image = Maurie Collins.jpg
| caption = Collins in 1901
| fullname = Maurice Ignatius Collins
| birth_date = 21 July 1876
| birth_place = [Clifton Hill, Victoria](/source/Clifton_Hill%2C_Victoria)
| death_date = {{death date and age|1943|11|8|1876|7|21|df=yes}}
| death_place = [Kew, Victoria](/source/Kew%2C_Victoria)
| originalteam = [Albert Park](/source/Albert_Park_Football_Club) 
| height = <!-- ### cm -->
| weight = <!-- ### kg -->
| position = Defender
| statsend = 1904
| years1 = 1897–1904
| club1 = [Essendon](/source/Essendon_Football_Club)
| games_goals1 = 97/98 (7)<ref>AFL Tables, the ''Encyclopedia of AFL Footballers'' and the official league website's database state that he played a semi final against Melbourne; However, Full Points Footy, the official statistical history of the AFL books, Maplestone (1996, p.&nbsp;445), and Essendon's club website say he did not</ref>
| careerhighlights = *[VFL premiership player](/source/List_of_Australian_Football_League_premiers): [1901](/source/1901_VFL_Grand_Final)
}}

'''Maurice Ignatius Collins''' (21 July 1876 – 8 November 1943)<ref>{{cite web|url=http://australianfootball.com/players/player/Maurie%2BCollins/919|title=Maurie Collins – Player Bio|publisher=Australian Football|accessdate=11 December 2014}}</ref> was an [Australian rules football](/source/Australian_rules_football)er who played for [Essendon](/source/Essendon_Football_Club) in the [Victorian Football League](/source/Australian_Football_League) (VFL).

==Family==
The son of Timothy Collins (1843-1899),<ref>[http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article9520838 Deaths: Collins, ''The Argus'', (Saturday, 24 June 1899), p.&nbsp;5.]</ref> and Catherine Collins (1846-1928), née Nunan,<ref>[http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article3950954 Deaths: Collins, ''The Argus'', (Saturday, 18 August 1928), p.&nbsp;13.]</ref> Maurice Ignatius Collins was born at [Clifton Hill, Victoria](/source/Clifton_Hill%2C_Victoria) on 21 July 1876.<ref>''Births Deaths and Marriages Victoria'' Births Registration no.22987/1876.</ref>

He married Eileen Mary Marsh (1886-1968) in 1906.<ref>''Births Deaths and Marriages Victoria'' Marriages Registration no.7838/1906.</ref> They had four children; one of whom, Alan Collins (1914-1914) died in his infancy. In 1927, another of their three sons, Maurice Xavier Collins (1907-1955), was captain of the [Old Xaverians Football Club](/source/Old_Xaverians_Football_Club) in the [Metropolitan Amateur Football Association (MAFA)](/source/Victorian_Amateur_Football_Association).<ref>[http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article171638151 Football: Old Xaverians' Football Club; Bright Prospects, ''The Advocate'', (Thursday, 14 April 1927), p.&nbsp;23.]</ref>

==Football==
===Essendon (VFL)===
Collins played his early football with the [Albert Park Football Club](/source/Albert_Park_Football_Club). He was injured during the [1897 VFL finals series](/source/1897_VFL_finals_series) but according to some sources made one appearance. Collins, a defender, was a member of Essendon's 1901 premiership team, as a [back pocket](/source/back_pocket). A VFL representative, he was the vice captain of Essendon for his final season.

===1899 team of "champions"===
At the end of the 1899 season, in the process of naming his own "champion player", the football correspondent for ''The Argus'', [Reginald Wilmot ("Old Boy")](/source/Reginald_Wilmot), selected a team of the best players of the 1899 VFL competition:
* Backs: '''Maurie Collins''' (Essendon), [Bill Proudfoot](/source/Bill_Proudfoot) (Collingwood), [Peter Burns](/source/Peter_Burns_(footballer%2C_born_1866)) (Geelong).
* Halfbacks: [Pat Hickey](/source/Pat_Hickey_(footballer)) (Fitzroy), [George Davidson](/source/George_Davidson_(footballer)) (South Melbourne), [Alf Wood](/source/Alf_Wood_(Australian_footballer)) (Melbourne).
* Centres: [Fred Leach](/source/Fred_Leach) (Collingwood), [Firth McCallum](/source/Firth_McCallum) (Geelong), [Harry Wright](/source/Harry_Wright_(Australian_footballer)) (Essendon).
* Wings: [Charlie Pannam](/source/Charlie_Pannam_(footballer%2C_born_1874)) (Collingwood), [Eddie Drohan](/source/Eddie_Drohan) (Fitzroy), [Herb Howson](/source/Herb_Howson) (South Melbourne).
* Forwards: [Bill Jackson](/source/Bill_Jackson_(Australian_footballer)) (Essendon), [Eddy James](/source/Eddy_James) (Geelong), [Charlie Colgan](/source/Charlie_Colgan) (South Melbourne).
* Ruck: [Mick Pleass](/source/Mick_Pleass) (South Melbourne), [Frank Hailwood](/source/Frank_Hailwood) (Collingwood), [Joe McShane](/source/Joe_McShane) (Geelong).
* Rovers: [Dick Condon](/source/Dick_Condon) (Collingwood), [Bill McSpeerin](/source/Bill_McSpeerin) (Fitzroy), [Teddy Rankin](/source/Teddy_Rankin) (Geelong).
From those he considered to be the three best players — that is, Condon, Hickey, and Pleass — Wilmot selected Pat Hickey as his "champion player" of the season.<ref>[http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article9030781 'Old Boy', "Football: A Review of the Season", (Monday, 18 September 1899), p.&nbsp;6.]</ref>

==Death==
He died at [Kew, Victoria](/source/Kew%2C_Victoria) on 8 November 1943.<ref>[http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article11788070 Deaths: Collins, ''The Argus'', (Tuesday, 9 November 1943), p.&nbsp;2.]</ref>

==Notes==
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==References==
{{Commons category}}
* Holmesby, Russell and Main, Jim (2007). ''The Encyclopedia of AFL Footballers''. 7th ed. Melbourne: Bas Publishing.
* Maplestone, M., ''Flying Higher: History of the Essendon Football Club 1872–1996'', Essendon Football Club, (Melbourne), 1996. {{ISBN|0-9591740-2-8}}
* [https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/page/23406767 Football Premiers for 1897—Essendon Football Team and Office-Bearers (photograph), ''The Weekly Times'', (Saturday, 25 September 1897), p.&nbsp;12.]

==External links==
*{{AFL Tables | M/Maurie_Collins }}
*{{AustralianFootball | maurie+collins/919 }}
{{1901 Essendon premiership players}}

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Category:People from Clifton Hill, Victoria
Category:Australian rules footballers from Melbourne
Category:Essendon Football Club players
Category:Essendon Football Club premiership players
Category:VFL/AFL premiership players
Category:19th-century Australian sportsmen

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