Anthony Daly (footballer)

Anthony "Bos" Daly
Personal information
Full name	Anthony Joseph Daly
Nickname(s)	Bos
Date of birth	(1874-01-09)9 January 1874
Place of birth	South Australia
Date of death	21 August 1942(1942-08-21) (aged 68)
Place of death	Prospect, South Australia
Position(s)	Full forward
Playing career
Years	Club	Games (Goals)
1893–1898	Norwood	073 (238)
1899	South Adelaide	016 0(32)
1900	West Torrens	014 0(28)
1901	West Adelaide	017 0(23)
1902–1909, 1912	North Adelaide	093 (235)
Total		213 (556)
Representative team honours
Years	Team	Games (Goals)
	South Australia
Career highlights
4x Norwood premiership player 2x North Adelaide premiership player South Adelaide premiership player 7x SANFL leading goal kicker, 1893, 1894, 1895, 1899, 1900, 1903, 1905 (joint) 7x Leading goal kicker for North Adelaide, 1902, 1903, 1904, 1905, 1906, 1907, 1912 4x Leading goal kicker for Norwood, 1893, 1894, 1895, 1898 Leading goal kicker for South Adelaide, 1899 Leading goal kicker for West Adelaide, 1901 Most goals in a SANFL game (jointly with Ken Farmer), and in an elite Australian Rules football game (jointly with Farmer and Bernie Naylor) (23)
Source: AustralianFootball.com

Anthony Joseph "Bos" Daly (9 January 1874 – 21 August 1942) was an Australian rules footballer who played for the five teams in the South Australian Football Association (SAFA) between 1893 and 1912.

Family

He is the brother of John "Bunny" Daly, who was also inducted in the South Australian Football Hall of Fame.

Football

In 1893, whilst playing for Norwood, he set a record for the most goals kicked by a player in a single game of elite football, which has been equaled but remains unbeaten to date. Daly kicked 23 of Norwood's 29 goals in a 27-goal win over Adelaide (unrelated to the modern-day AFL team). However, due to the visitors being unable to field a full team, the game was played with fourteen players per side instead of the normal twenty of the time.

Daly kicked 88 goals for the season, including 49 against Adelaide (he kicked five (on debut), six, and fifteen goals in the other three matches), who dropped out of the SAFA and folded at the end of 1893. Daly's season total remained an elite football record until broken by Bonny Campbell in the WAFL in 1926, and a South Australian record until broken by Ken Farmer in 1930.

References

• One of Australia's Greatest Players: "Boss" Daly, Old Player, Talks of the Past, The Sporting Globe, (Wednesday, 13 August 1930), p.8.