Cache..Seek a poly container. Some Daytime stealth may be required for GZ will place you on a very popular shared pathway. Beware of cyclists more so than vehicles as the cache is near a slight bend in the road.
In memory of my father REG MORGAN (of same name) and his devotion to the Carlton Football Club.
Dad was named Reginald Henry, and I Reginald John. There was often confusion and I was John up until my schoolmate found out and decided I wasn't a John first. Hahaha It was Reg from Form 1 onwards.
Playing Career: 1942
Debut: Round 10, 1942 v Melbourne, aged 22 years, 275 days
Carlton Player No. 576
Games: 2
Goals: 0
Last game: Round 11, 1942 v Collingwood, aged 22 years, 282 days
Guernsey No. 25 Height: 182 cm (5ft 11.5ins) Weight: 76 kgs (11st 9lbs)
DOB: October 9, 1919
May 15 1943 "Reginald Morgan 23, married of Grange rd, Alphington. suffered a ruptured spleen when playing for Carlton Seconds on Saturday. He was operated on at the Royal Melbourne Hospital, and is on the danger list."(The Melbourne Newspaper ARGUS, reported Monday 17 May p8)
Reg was born in Richmond, and recruited from Northcote.
He passed away on the 12th Feburary, 2002 aged 82.
He also wore Guernsey No. 14 (1942) and Guernsey No. 15 (1940) whilst playing with the Carlton reserves team.
Dad often showed his scarred left leg injury sustained from contact with well known player Lou Richards on Round 11, 1942 v Collingwood. Often also saying what a dirty SOB of a player he was.
A past players photo from 60 years ago has emerged. (Photo: Supplied)
A FABULOUS Carlton past players team photo of 60 years ago are amongst the many images to have surfaced in the fortnight since the Club appealed to members and supporters to assist it in sourcing pictures of former players not represented in its photographic archive.
'The image, taken in front of the since-demolished Robert Heatley Stand prior to an exhibition match with Geelong in 1959, was kindly forwarded to the club by my brother Laurie Morgan. (My sister found it among family memorabilia)
Reg Morgan - a Victorian baseball representative who later managed two senior appearances for the Club in 1942. Reg was amongst the 195 former players of whom the club did not have a photograph.
This photo was unearthed after the Club was contacted by a reader with a lead. On the reader’s advice, contact was made with Heidelberg Golf Club where Laurie swung the occasional one wood, and a day later Laurie touched base with this precious photograph.
Born in inner city Richmond and recruited to the club from Northcote, Reg completed his senior debut in Round 10 of the ’42 season, against Melbourne at Princes Park. In what was Jim Francis’s 150th senior match and fellow 1938 Premiership player Frank Gill’s 205th and final game,
Reg - wearing the famous No.25 - lined up in the centre for the home team. Carlton knocked over the Redlegs by 28 points in that one, with Carlton full-forward Paul Schmidt booting a lazy eight.
The following weekend, in what would be his second and final match for Carlton at senior level, Reg lined up on a half-back flank alongside Bob Chitty, and was part of the team which knocked Collingwood over by 15 points at inhospitable Victoria Park
Reg died at the age of 82 in February 2002. Laurie, was present when dad accepted his Life Membership of the Club at the Brunswick Town Hall in 1976,
Brothers and I remembered following Dad to past players functions at the old Carlton ground on match-days and again at the Pleasant Sunday mornings. “Laurie would follow Dad to the night games at the old South Melbourne ground and follow Dad out with the players’ dressing gowns,
Those Pleasant Sunday mornings were a treat, and home match games saw us throughout the "rooms" looking up to players like Sergio Silvagni, John Nichols and the like. CTV was new in those days and was another treat watching live and replays in the Presidents room.
“Dad loved Carlton. He started with the Carlton 5ths and was Secretary of the Past Players Association for at least 15 Years.
Aside from his football and baseball, Dad also boxed and he was a good foot-runner who finished third in the Maryborough Gift,” Laurie said. “The spleen injury he copped nearly killed him. It pretty much ended his football career, but then he took on coaching.
We know he coached North Alphington Amateurs to three or four Premierships and he also coached the Victorian Breweries team.”
Reg, then approaching his 40th birthday when the above image was taken, can be seen standing at top left in the back row alongside the late Wes Lofts, then an Under 19 Carlton player
Also featured is the legendary full-forward Harry ‘Soapy’ Vallence, who first represented Carlton in 1926, and the club’s inaugural Brownlow Medallist Bert Deacon, together with Harvey Dunn – the first League footballer recruited under the father/son rule.
Jim Baird, Jack Carney, Jim Clark, Ken Hands, Jack ‘Chooka’ Howell and Charlie McInnes - Carlton Premiership players one and all – also appear in their guernseys. It is unclear which team won the past players’ contest or when the match was played, as the Carlton and Geelong senior teams of the day met but once in 1959, in Round 8 at Kardinia Park.
However, the following was reported beneath the headline PAST PLAYERS AND OFFICIALS’ ASSOCIATION in the ’59 Annual Report; “Once again Mr. Vern Wright acted as President of this Association, with Mr. Maurie Ewens as secretary and Reg Morgan a very active social secretary.
Footy was not just in Dad's blood, but indeed his 3 sons. Brother Laurie was devoted also,playing 300+ games for Heidelberg Football Club in the Diamond Valley League.
My other brother Bill also played for Heidelberg, but unclear as to his total games. I myself played where possible in matches arranged in the Army. Usually the ruckman. "Ruck Reg"
Although many years have past since that era of football, I found there are still many people whom have the same memories or similar links. I couldn't go anywhere locally or even interstate with Dad without him bumping into someone he knew as a result of those many many years with Past Players of all the Clubs. So, if you (or someone you know of) wishes to share any information on this subject of Past Players, please do not hesitate to contact me.
Contact may be via Message, Email, or Phone. The number for which is on my profile.
Ironically, my friend emailed me from Wedderburn 2 days before hiding this cache, and I proceded to view caches in the area. She found 3 with 1 dnf. That DNF was Cache Named "Brownlow Medal 1961". John James of CARLTON.
I hope you enjoyed this information and indeed enjoy trekking to my other Caches and what my home town here has to offer.