George Bickford Moysey was an Australia

Australia

Australia , officially the Commonwealth of Australia, is a country in the Southern Hemisphere comprising the mainland of the Australian continent, the island of Tasmania, and numerous smaller islands in the Indian and Pacific Oceans. It is the world's sixth-largest country by total area...

n sportsman who played Australian rules football

Australian rules football

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 and cricket

Cricket

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 at a high level. He played for Melbourne

Melbourne Football Club

The Melbourne Football Club, nicknamed The Demons, is an Australian rules football club playing in the Australian Football League , based in Melbourne, Victoria....

 in the Victorian Football League

Australian Football League

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 (VFL) and also competed in the West Australian Football Association/League

West Australian Football League

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. As a cricketer he played one first-class match

First-class cricket

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 for Western Australia.

Moysey was from Tasmania

Tasmania

Tasmania is an Australian island and state. It is south of the continent, separated by Bass Strait. The state includes the island of Tasmania—the 26th largest island in the world—and the surrounding islands. The state has a population of 507,626 , of whom almost half reside in the greater Hobart...

 but was already playing for Melbourne by the time the VFL was formed. He was one of six Melbourne players to appear in all 17 possible games of the inaugural league season in 1897

1897 VFL season

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, which included three finals. His 12 goals that year were bettered by only two teammates. He spent two more seasons at the club and in 1899 represented Victoria

Victoria Australian rules football team

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 in an interstate fixture against South Australia.

Having found employment at the Mount Morgans Gold Mine

Mount Morgans Gold Mine

The Mount Morgans Gold Mine is a gold mine located 37 km west-south-west of Laverton, Western Australia.It is operated by Range River Gold, who purchased the mine from Barrick Gold in May 2009...

, Moysey moved to Western Australia

Western Australia

Western Australia is a state of Australia, occupying the entire western third of the Australian continent. It is bounded by the Indian Ocean to the north and west, the Great Australian Bight and Indian Ocean to the south, the Northern Territory to the north-east and South Australia to the south-east...

 at the turn of the 20th century. He worked there for six years, then moved to Perth

Perth

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, where he began playing for the Perth Football Club

Perth Football Club

The Perth Football Club, nicknamed the Demons, is an Australian rules football club playing in the West Australian Football League . The club plays its matches at Lathlain Park.-History:...

, which he would captain. Later, he also played for Subiaco

Subiaco Football Club

The Subiaco Football Club, nicknamed the Lions, is an Australian rules football club in the West Australian Football League . It was founded in 1896, and admitted to the WAFL in 1901, along with North Fremantle...

.

When the Marylebone Cricket Club

Marylebone Cricket Club

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 toured Australia in 1907/08, Moysey was picked in the Western Australian team to play them at the WACA Ground

WACA Ground

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. Facing an attack that consisted of English Test

Test cricket

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 players, the left handed batsman was bowled by Jack Crawford

Jack Crawford (cricketer)

John Neville Crawford was an English first-class cricketer who played mainly for Surrey. An amateur, he played as an all-rounder and was highly regarded from an unusually early age before a disagreement with his county curtailed his career. A right-handed batsman, Crawford had a reputation for...

 for eight in the first innings and dismissed by Wilfred Rhodes

Wilfred Rhodes

Wilfred Rhodes was an English professional cricketer who played 58 Test matches for England between 1899 and 1930. In Tests, Rhodes took 127 wickets in and scored 2,325 runs, becoming the first Englishman to complete the double of 1,000 runs and 100 wickets in Test matches...

 in his second innings.

In 1910 he almost drowned in The Basin

The Basin (Rottnest Island)

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 at Rottnest Island

Rottnest Island

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 when the current swept him out to sea. He was said to have been sinking by the time his companion, Percy Bailey, rescued him. Bailey received a Royal Humane Society

Royal Humane Society

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 award for his act of saving Moysey's life.

He would eventually return to the city of Melbourne

Melbourne

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and died there in 1932.