Bryan Cosgrave
Encyclopedia
Bryan Cosgrave was an Australian sportsman who played first-class cricket
for Victoria
and Australian rules football
in the Victorian Football League
(VFL) with Fitzroy
.
In the 1924 VFL season
, Cosgrave played five games and kicked four goals for Fitzroy. It was his only season and he turned his attention to cricket. He was a right-handed batsman top order batsman and made 178 from his four first-class matches, with 100 of them coming in an innings against Tasmania at Hobart in 1931/32.
His son James played cricket with Victoria briefly in the 1956/57 season.
First-class cricket
First-class cricket is a class of cricket that consists of matches of three or more days' scheduled duration, that are between two sides of eleven players and are officially adjudged first-class by virtue of the standard of the competing teams...
for Victoria
Victorian Bushrangers
The Victorian cricket team, nicknamed the Bushrangers, is an Australian cricket team based in Melbourne, that represents the state of Victoria. It is administered by Cricket Victoria and draws its players from Melbourne's Premier Cricket competition...
and Australian rules football
Australian rules football
Australian rules football, officially known as Australian football, also called football, Aussie rules or footy is a sport played between two teams of 22 players on either...
in the Victorian Football League
Australian Football League
The Australian Football League is both the governing body and the major professional competition in the sport of Australian rules football...
(VFL) with Fitzroy
Fitzroy Football Club
The Fitzroy Football Club, formerly nicknamed The Lions, is an Australian rules football club formed in 1883 to represent the inner Melbourne suburb of Fitzroy, Victoria and was a foundation member club of the Victorian Football League on its inception in 1897...
.
In the 1924 VFL season
1924 VFL season
Results and statistics for the Victorian Football League season of 1924.-Premiership season:In 1924, the VFL competition consisted of nine teams of 18 on-the-field players each, with no "reserves", although any of the 18 players who had left the playing field for any reason could later resume their...
, Cosgrave played five games and kicked four goals for Fitzroy. It was his only season and he turned his attention to cricket. He was a right-handed batsman top order batsman and made 178 from his four first-class matches, with 100 of them coming in an innings against Tasmania at Hobart in 1931/32.
His son James played cricket with Victoria briefly in the 1956/57 season.