Albert Hartkopf

Cricket Player

1889 – 1968

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Who was Albert Hartkopf?

Albert Ernst Victor Hartkopf was an Australian sportsman who played Test cricket for Australia and Australian rules football for Melbourne University Football Club.

Born in North Fitzroy, Victoria to German migrants, Hartkopf attended Scotch College, Melbourne, attracting attention as a star schoolboy athlete. After graduating from Scotch, Hartkopf studied medicine at the University of Melbourne, where he represented University in the Victorian Football League, playing 48 games and kicking 87 goals.

In 1911, Hartkopf cemented his position as one of Australia's best all-round sportsmen by becoming the Victorian state 440 yards champion and making his first-class cricket debut for Victoria on 23 December 1911 against New South Wales at the Melbourne Cricket Ground, scoring an unbeaten 42 and a duck and taking 2/20 with his leg break bowling. He was a regular member of Victoria's cricket side and University's football side until injury and then World War I restricted Hartkopf's sporting career. During World War I, Hartkopf worked first at the Royal Women’s Hospital in Melbourne and then at the Royal Children’s Hospital in Perth, Western Australia.

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Born
Dec 28, 1889
Victoria
Nationality
  • Australia
Died
May 20, 1968

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on July 23, 2013

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