Percy Ernest Keith Osmond (26 January 1899 – 8 March 1969) was an Australian rules footballer who played with Richmond and Collingwood in the Victorian Football League (VFL).Holmesby & Main (2014), p.680.
Family The son of Ernest John Osmond (1869-1951),Deaths: Osmond, The Age, (Saturday, 21 April 1951), p.2. and Catherine Osmond (1869-1938), née Goodie,Deaths: Osmond, The Age, (Saturday, 8 October 1938), p.17. Percy Ernest Keith Osmond was born at Sale, Victoria on 26 January 1899.
He married Isabella Small Walker (1894-1981) in 1938.
Football Richmond (VFL) Recruited from the Richmond United Football Club in 1919. In his six seasons with the Richmond Football Club he played in 12 games with the First XVIII, and in 62 games with the Second XVIII (scoring 9 goals), including the 1923 Second XVIII Grand Final team that lost to Geelong 5.10 (40) to 9.12 (66), in which he was one of Richmond's best players.Hogan (1996), pp.169, 311.Second Eighteen wins Premiership: Richmond well beaten in Grand Final: Geelong plays with Seventeen Men, The Geelong Advertiser, (Monday, 22 October 1923), p.7.
Hamilton Y.M.C.A. In 1925 he was appointed coach of the Hamilton Y.M.C.A. Football Club in the Hamilton and District Football Association.Hamilton Preparations, The Weekly Times, (Saturday, 2 May 1925), p.83.Hamilton Matches, The Weekly Times, (Saturday, 25 July 1925), p.81.
Collingwod (VFL) In May 1926 he was cleared to play with Collingwood.Football: League Permits Granted, The Age, (Thursday, 27 May 1926), p.5.
Death He died at the Austin Hospital, in Heidelberg, Victoria on 8 March 1969.Deaths: Osmond, The Age, (Monday, 10 March 1969), p.12.
Notes
References Hogan P: The Tigers Of Old, Richmond FC, (Melbourne), 1996.
External links
Keith Osmond's profile at Collingwood Forever.