Talk:George Anderson (Australian footballer, born 1885)

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Unsourced (but apparently veridical) claims

Between 6:00AM and 7:00AM AEST (approx 6:20AM) on Sunday 2 January 2011, a caller to the programme standing in for Ian Macnamara's Australia All Over whilst Macca takes a summer break, who identified himself "Phil", and identified himself as being Anderson's son-in-law, spoke to the show's presenter (Trevor Chappell), and recounted a number of details of Anderson's time in Wagga Wagga, especially in relation to the significance of the Anderson Oval. Whilst speaking to Trevor Chappell he made four interesting claims:

(1) That Anderson was involved in the political scene in Wagga Wagga;
(2) That Anderson was known as "Geordie Anderson";
(3) That Anderson "formed" to the "Riverina Cricket Club"; and
(4) That Anderson was also a well-known athlete, who won every event at a meeting in Chiltern, Victoria.

I have been unable to find any references to confirm these four (apparently veridical) claims. I have been unable to identify what might have once been the "Riverina Cricket Club". I have been unable to identify any sort of athletics meeting in Chiltern that might been around the time in question at which an Anderson was so successful. I have also wondered whether, rather than Anderson being successful at a meeting in Chiltern, that he was from Chiltern and successful at a meeting held somewhere else -- also, something that suggests this might be a possibility is that there were a number of Andersons associated over the years, since 1860, with Chiltern's Federal Standard Newspaper.Lindsay658 (talk) 09:54, 4 January 2011 (UTC)[reply]

I have found a picture of the memorial plaque in Wikimedia Commons; and, so, there is now "evidence" of (2), (3) and (4). I have placed the picture within the article.

In relation to (4), Also, it seems that I mis-heard the man on the radio: and, rather than saying that Anderson had "won every event at a meeting in Chiltern", he must have said "won every event he entered at a meeting in Chiltern". Lindsay658 (talk) 22:41, 4 January 2011 (UTC)[reply]