Alan Marsham

Australian rules footballer

Alan Marsham
Personal information
Full name	Alan Robert Marsham
Date of birth	(1920-08-06)6 August 1920
Place of birth	Geelong, Victoria
Date of death	7 April 1990(1990-04-07) (aged 69)
Place of death	Geelong, Victoria
Original team(s)	Sea Scouts
Height	185 cm (6 ft 1 in)
Weight	83 kg (183 lb)
Playing career¹
Years	Club	Games (Goals)
1939–1940, 1945–1946	Geelong	24 (5)
¹ Playing statistics correct to the end of 1946.
Sources: AFL Tables, AustralianFootball.com

Alan Robert Marsham (6 August 1920 – 7 April 1990) was an Australian rules footballer who played for the Geelong Football Club in the Victorian Football League (VFL).^[1]

Family

The son of former Geelong footballer Harry "Nipper" Marsham (1890-1932)^[2] and Olive Gertrude Elizabeth Marsham, nee McQueen (1893–1950), Alan Robert Marsham was born in Geelong on 6 August 1920.

Alan Marsham married Marie Elaine Dawson in 1943.

Education

He attended Geelong College.^[3]

Williamstown (VFA)

In 1941 he transferred to the VFA club Williamstown.

Notes

^ Holmesby & Main (2014), p.553.
^ Death of Former Footballer, The (Malbourne) Herald, (3 December 1932), p.5.
^ Lannan, C., "The Geelong College's League of Footballers: The VFL and AFL", Ad Astra, No.130, (July 2016), pp.42-43.

References

Holmesby, Russell; Main, Jim (2014). The Encyclopedia of AFL Footballers: every AFL/VFL player since 1897 (10th ed.). Seaford, Victoria: BAS Publishing. ISBN 978-1-921496-32-5.