Lew Gough

Lew Gough
Personal information
Full name	Lewis James Gough
Date of birth	1 September 1903
Place of birth	Yarck, Victoria
Date of death	26 December 1934 (aged 31)
Place of death	Boronia, Victoria
Original team(s)	Box Hill
Height / weight	187 cm / 87 kg
Playing career^1
Years	Club	Games (Goals)
1925, 1932 1926–29 1930–31 1932–33	Hawthorn Camberwell Melbourne Prahran	12 (17) 05 0(0) 17 (17)
^1 Playing statistics correct to the end of 1932.

Lewis James Gough (1 September 1903 – 26 December 1934) was an Australian Rules footballer who played with Hawthorn and Melbourne in the Victorian Football League (VFL).^[1]

Cleared from Box Hill to Hawthorn in June 1925, Gough played the last eight games of the season. He then spent the next four years in the Victorian Football Association with Camberwell before joining Melbourne in 1930. He played a solitary match in his first season with Melbourne and then played four more games in 1931 when regular full back Bill Tymms took leave to go on his honeymoon.^[2]

He was injured in his first match back at Hawthorn in 1932 but made three more appearances before he was cleared to Prahran midway through the season.^[3] He coached Prahran in 1933 but became ill later in the season^[4] and died at the age of 31 late the next year.^[5]

Notes

1. Holmesby, Russell; Main, Jim (2009). The Encyclopedia of AFL Footballers: every AFL/VFL player since 1897 (8th ed.). Seaford, Victoria: BAS Publishing. p. 313. ISBN 978-1-921496-00-4.
2. "Lew Gough". Demonwiki.
3. "Permits". Football Record. State Library of Victoria. 2 July 1932. p. 30.
4. "BENEFIT FOOTBALL". The Argus. National Library of Australia. 12 September 1933. p. 5.
5. "Family Notices.". The Argus. National Library of Australia. 27 December 1934. p. 1.

External links

• Lew Gough's statistics from AFL Tables