Cyril Gove was an 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...

er who played with Essendon

Essendon Football Club

The Essendon Football Club, nicknamed The Bombers, is an Australian rules football club which plays in the Australian Football League...

 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).

Gove, from St Thomas Grammar School, played his early football for the Collegians. A wiry wingman, he played 16 games in the 1914 VFL season

1914 VFL season

Results and statistics for the Victorian Football League season of 1914.-Premiership season:In 1914, the VFL competition consisted of ten 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...

 and was chosen to represented the VFL in the Sydney Carnival

1914 Sydney Carnival

The 1914 Sydney Carnival was the third edition of the Australian National Football Carnival, an Australian rules football interstate competition....

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Gove rode the racehorse Menthe into third place in the Springbank Corinthian Handicap, a race for amateur riders, at Moonee Valley Racecourse

Moonee Valley Racing Club

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 and then proceeded to travel straight over to the East Melbourne Cricket Ground

East Melbourne Cricket Ground

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 to play a VFL game against South Melbourne, all on 29 May 1915. According to Essendon Club historian Mapleston and AFL historian, Col Hutchison, the 25-year-old Gove was also a Victorian amateur boxing champion and on the same evening fought a bout at West Melbourne Stadium

Festival Hall, Melbourne

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