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James Vivian "Snowy" Maxfield (27 August 1893 – 23 August 1953) was an Australian rules footballer who played with Richmond in the Victorian Football League (VFL).[1]

Jim Maxfield
Personal information
Full name	James Vivian Maxfield
Nickname(s)	Snowy
Date of birth	(1893-08-27)27 August 1893
Place of birth	Bendigo, Victoria
Date of death	23 August 1953(1953-08-23) (aged 59)
Place of death	Parkville, Victoria
Height	170 cm (5 ft 7 in)
Weight	70 kg (154 lb)
Playing career1
Years	Club	Games (Goals)
1915	Bendigo City (BFL)	03 (6)
1916	Training Units (AIF)	01 (1)
1920–1923	Morwell (CGFL)	035
1921	Northcote (VFA)	02
1924–25	Richmond	010 (2)
1926	Maffra (CGFL)
1927–1930	Traralgon (CGFL)
Coaching career3
Years	Club	Games (W–L–D)
1926	Maffra (CGFL)
1927	Traralgon (CGFL)
1 Playing statistics correct to the end of 1930. 3 Coaching statistics correct as of 1927.
Career highlights
AIF Pioneer Exhibition Game, London, 28 October 1916 1922 Morwell (CGFL) premiership team 1923 Captain C.G.F.L. representative team 1926 Maffra (CGFL) premiership captain-coach
Sources: AFL Tables, AustralianFootball.com

Family

James Vivian Maxfield was born at Bendigo, Victoria, on 27 August 1893. He married Kathleen Ursula O'Rourke in 1924.

Education

He was educated at the Marist Brothers' College in Bendigo.[2]

Military service

He enlisted in the First AIF in February 1916, and served overseas, returning to Australia in June 1919.

Football

Bendigo City (BFL)

A talented local footballer in the Newbridge district,[3] in 1915, he played three matches with the Bendigo City Football Club in the Bendigo Football League.[4][5]

Training Units (AIF)

He played for the (losing) Australian Training Units team in the famous "Pioneer Exhibition Game" of Australian Rules football, held in London, in October 1916.[6] He was one of the team's best players, he scored one of its four goals.

Morwell (CGFL)

He played with the Morwell Football Club, in the Central Gippsland Football League (CGFL), for four seasons (1920-1923).

Northcote (VFA)

In 1921, he played two games with the VFA club Northcote.[7][8]

Richmond (VFL)

on 28 May 1924, he was granted a clearance from Morwell to Richmond,[9] and he played his first senior match, against St Kilda, at the Punt Road Oval, on 31 May 1924.

Having played well in his first three matches, he was omitted from the Richmond side that met Carlton, at Princes Park, on 21 June 1924, on the grounds of that he was (allegedly) injured.[10] Within days, however, it became clear that he had been stood down (i.e., rather than "omitted"), because Richmond had concerns in relation to the clearance that Maxfield had been granted a month earlier.

On 25 June 1924, in his presentation to the VFL's Permit and Umpire Committee, the Richmond Secretary, Percy Page,[11] revealed that, over the preceding week, he had become aware — Paul Hogan (1966, p.135) is most emphatic that this was due to Carlton's Horrie Clover "[having] discovered that [Maxfield] had lived in Carlton's zone, when playing with Northcote in 1921" — that, rather than coming to Richmond as a free agent from the "unallotted territory" of Morwell, he "had played two games with Northcote in 1921".[12]

Maffra (CGFL)

In 1926, he was captain-coach of Maffra in the Central Gippsland Football League (CGFL).[13] Maffra won the 1926 premiership.

Traralgon (CGFL)

In 1927, he was captain-coach of the Traralgon Football Club in the Central Gippsland Football League (CGFL).[14] He played with the club for four seasons, only one as captain-coach, and retired from football at the end of the 1930 season.[15]

Athlete

He was a talented sprinter who did not begin running competitively until he was nearly 30. On 26 February 1927, he won the 130-yard 1927 Sale Gift, running off 12 yards, narrowly beating the favourite, champion sprinter Tim Banner.[16][17][18]

See also

• 1916 Pioneer Exhibition Game

Death

He died at Parkville, Victoria on 23 August 1953.[19]

Notes

References

• Hogan P: The Tigers Of Old, Richmond FC, (Melbourne), 1996. ISBN 0-646-18748-1
• Holmesby, Russell; Main, Jim (2014). The Encyclopedia of AFL Footballers: every AFL/VFL player since 1897 (10th ed.). Seaford, Victoria: BAS Publishing. ISBN 978-1-921496-32-5.
• Richardson, N. (2016), The Game of Their Lives, Pan Macmillan Australia: Sydney. ISBN 9781743536667.
• Wells (Samuel Garnet Wells (1885-1972)), "J. Maxfield: Richmond's wing centre, who has to stand aside during the League's pleasure" (caricature), The (Melbourne) Herald, (Friday, 27 June 1924), p.3.
• First World War Embarkation Roll: Private James Maxfield (1693), collection of the Australian War Memorial.
• First World War Nominal Roll: Private James Maxfield (1693), collection of the Australian War Memorial.
• First World War Service Record: Private James Maxfield (1693), National Archives of Australia.

External links

• Jim Maxfield's playing statistics from AFL Tables
• Jim Maxfield at AustralianFootball.com

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