Neville Huggins

Neville Huggins
Personal information
Full name	Neville Huggins
Date of birth	11 September 1906
Date of death
Original team(s)	Rutherglen
Height/Weight	180 cm / 87 kg
Position(s)	Ruck-rover
Playing career1
Years	Club	Games (Goals)
1929 1931–35 Total	Fitzroy North Melbourne	04 0(3) 86 (21) 90 (24)
1 Playing statistics correct to the end of 1935 season.

Neville Huggins (11 September 1906 - 29 December 1987) was an Australian rules footballer who played for Fitzroy and North Melbourne in the Victorian Football League (VFL).

Huggins started his football career in the Ovens and Murray League where he took the field for Rutherglen. He then spent some time at Williamstown before being signed by Fitzroy for the 1929 VFL season. His stint at Fitzroy wasn't successful, ending after just four matches owing to a dispute with the committee. Huggins, a ruck-rover, was also a policeman by profession.

The North Melbourne team of the early 1930s was particularly weak and in his initial season with the club he didn't experience a win. It wasn't until 1932 that he played in a winning side, ending a streak of 22 consecutive losses, which stretched back to his time at Fitztoy.

Having left the VFL for good, Huggins returned to Williamstown, where he was appointed captain-coach and said to be the highest paid one in the country. A dual best and fairest winner, he also took out the Recorder Cup in 1937.

Huggins was known to be playing cricket for Shepparton Cricket Club in the 1939/40 season.

References

• Holmesby, Russell and Main, Jim (2007). The Encyclopedia of AFL Footballers. 7th ed. Melbourne: Bas Publishing.

External links

• Neville Huggins's statistics from AFL Tables
• Neville Huggins's profile from AustralianFootball.com