Algernon Edward Millhouse (13 May 1887 – 1 October 1948) was an Australian rules footballer who played for the Melbourne Football Club and St Kilda Football Club in the Victorian Football League (VFL).Holmesby & Russell (2014), p.612. He also played for the Norwood Football Club in the South Australian Football League (SAFL). He was captain-coach of Norwood for the 1914 season.
Family The son of Joseph Edward Millhouse (1860-1920),Deaths: Millhouse, The (Adelaide) Advertiser, (Monday, 8 November 1920), p.6. and Mary Jane Millhouse (1862-1944),Deaths: Millhouse, The (Adelaide) Advertiser, (Monday, 3 January 1944), p.8. née Mahood, Algernon Edward Millhouse was born in Mount Gambier, South Australia on 13 May 1887.
He married Muriel Elizabeth Cheek (1887-1947), in Adelaide, on 14 May 1912.Marriages: Millhouse—Cheek, The Argus, (Wednesday, 30 October 1912), p.11; Deaths: Millhouse, The Argus, (Monday, 15 December 1947), p.9. An accomplished soprano, she was always known professionally (at the Melbourne University Conservatorium, Melbourne Harmonic Society, etc.) as Miss Muriel Cheek.Table Talk, (Thursday, 24 July 1913), p.8; Chamber Music Recital, Table Talk, (Thursday, 6 April 1933), p.47.
Millhouse died in Richmond on 1 October 1948.Deaths: Millhouse, The Argus, (Saturday, 2 October 1948), p.9.
Football Port Pirie (South Australia) In Port Pirie, he played football for the Port Pirie Rovers.Port Pirie Football Association, Port Pirie and North Western Mail, (Saturday, 11 July 1903), p.4.
Broken Hill (New South Wales) He played for the West Broken Hill Football Club, until he was transferred with his employment to Adelaide in February 1911.Personal, The Barrier Miner, (Friday, 3 February 1911), p.4. 1908: Represented New South Wales at the Jubilee Australasian Football Carnival. 1910: captain of the West Broken Hill team. 1910: captain of the combined Broken Hill team that played against a combined Ballarat League team.Football, The (Adelaide) Evening Journal, (Thursday, 23 June 1910), p.2.
Norwood (SAFL)
Melbourne (VFL) In 1913, having transferred to Melbourne with his employment,League Football, The (Adelaide) Journal, (Thursday, 3 April 1913), p.1. and having been sought by both Carlton and St Kilda,Football, The Argus, (Friday, 18 April 1913), p.5. he was granted a clearance from Norwood to Melbourne in April 1913:Football: Permits to Players: League, The Argus, (Thursday, 24 April 1913), p.5. "the [Melbourne] club has a prize in Millhouse, the great South Australian all-round athlete, whose particular forte is football".The Football Season, The Age, (Friday, 25 April 1913), p.10.
He played ten senior matches with Melbourne before transferring, mid-season, to St Kilda. His last match was against Collingwood in round 10).
St Kilda (VFL) Midway through the 1913 season, Millhouse was granted a clearance to St Kilda, and played his first match for St Kilda in round 12 against University.The Football Season, The Age, (Friday, 4 July 1913), p.9. His form improved significantly with his move to St Kilda, and he played in ten consecutive senior matches for St Kilda, including the losing Grand Final team, against Fitzroy on 27 September 1913.
Norwood (SAFL) captain-coach
Military service He enlisted in the First AIF in August 1915. Having served overseas, he returned to Australia on 28 August 1919 in the TSS Kanowna, and was discharged not long after that.
See also 1908 Melbourne Carnival
Notes
References Holmesby, R. & Main, J., The Encyclopedia of AFL Footballers: every AFL/VFL player since 1897 (10th ed.), BAS Publishing (Seaford), 2014. War One Service Record: Corporal Algernon Edward Millhouse (2949), National Archives of Australia. War One Nominal Roll: Corporal Algernon Edward Millhouse (2949), Australian War Museum.
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