Wyn Murray


George Wynyatt "Wyn" Murray was an Australian rules footballer who played with Melbourne in the Victorian Football League.

Family

The son of Alfred Wynyatt Murray, and Johanna Murray, née Gleeson, George Wynyatt Murray was born on 4 July 1908.
He married Freda Winifred Davey in 1935.
His daughter, Patricia Joan, was a winner of the Australian Dancing Championship many times and also represented Australia overseas, with her husband, Ron Shelton.

Football

South Bendigo (BFL)

Murray played for South Bendigo in the Bendigo Football League in 1927 and 1928. In 1927, his first senior season, he was chosen on the half-forward flank in the combined BFL side defeated a VFL team, in Bendigo, on 13 August 1927.

Melbourne (VFL)

Murray was cleared to Melbourne in 1929, and gave the club solid service in six seasons. Murray, a left footer, missed just one game in his first two years with the club but was in and out of the side after that. A half back flanker, he represented the VFL against South Australia in 1933.

Preston (VFA)

Cleared from Melbourne to Preston in 1934, he won their best player award in 1937. He retired from the game that season, but returned in 1938 when appointed captain-coach for the year.

Police force

Football was not a professional sport in the 1930s; and Murray had an extended career in the Victorian Police Force.
In 1944 he was stabbed while attempting to assist a young woman in distress in the Snowden Gardens, across Princes Bridge.

Death

No longer in the Police Force, he died in a shabby rooming house in Fitzroy, Victoria on 21 December 1947.