Victorian Football Association
Games: 6
Career: 1896
James Gaul Kidney
1893 April 28
The Carlton Gazette reporting on a pre season match between Carlton and a team called the "Calathumpians", a player named Kidney scored a goal for the Calathumpians.
1895 Recruited from Carlton Juniors.
Defender- full back.
1913 September 12 Argus (p10)
At the Carlton Cricket Club AGM a Mr. J. Kidney was elected as a club councillor, same person?
Mark Pennings' book "Origins of Australian Football" Vol 4, has J. Kidney recruited from Carlton Juniors in 1896, played 6 games and returned to Carlton Juniors during the season.
Image of a Jas. (James). Kidney appears in The Weekly Times 27 April 1901 p12, Carlton ANA Branch cricket team along with CFC president A. H. Shaw and Jack Melville.
Also A. Curtis and W. McKenzie, CFC players?
There is a photo of Kidney Brothers clothing outfitters shop in Smith Street Collingwood taken in 1861. A connection?
ttps://www.heraldsun.com.au/news/victoria/melbournes-180th-birthday-how-carlton-collingwood-fitzroy-have-changed/news-story/000d607751a6372def10ac54f919690c