Maurie Ignatius Collins (21 July 1876 – 8 November 1943)[2] was an Australian rules footballer who played for Essendon in the Victorian Football League (VFL).

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Maurie Collins
Collins in 1901
Personal information
Full name	Maurice Ignatius Collins
Date of birth	21 July 1876
Place of birth	Clifton Hill, Victoria
Date of death	8 November 1943(1943-11-08) (aged 67)
Place of death	Kew, Victoria
Original team(s)	Albert Park / Xavier College
Position(s)	Defender
Playing career1
Years	Club	Games (Goals)
1897–1904	Essendon	97/98 (7)[1]
1 Playing statistics correct to the end of 1904.
Career highlights
VFL premiership player: 1901
Sources: AFL Tables, AustralianFootball.com

Collins played his early football at both Albert Park and Xavier College. He was injured during the 1897 VFL finals series but according to some sources made one appearance. Collins, a defender, was a member of Essendon's 1901 premiership team, as a back pocket. A VFL representative, he was the vice captain of Essendon for his final season.

At the end of the 1899 season, in the process of naming his own "champion player", the football correspondent for The Argus ("Old Boy"), selected a team of the best players of the 1899 VFL competition:
Backs: Maurie Collins (Essendon), Bill Proudfoot (Collingwood), Peter Burns (Geelong); Halfbacks: Pat Hickey (Fitzroy), George Davidson (South Melbourne), Alf Wood (Melbourne); Centres: Fred Leach (Collingwood), Firth McCallum (Geelong), Harry Wright (Essendon); Wings: Charlie Pannam (Collingwood), Eddie Drohan (Fitzroy), Herb Howson (South Melbourne); Forwards: Bill Jackson (Essendon), Eddy James (Geelong), Charlie Colgan (South Melbourne); Ruck: Mick Pleass (South Melbourne), Frank Hailwood (Collingwood), Joe McShane (Geelong); Rovers: Dick Condon (Collingwood), Bill McSpeerin (Fitzroy), Teddy Rankin (Geelong).
From those he considered to be the three best players – that is, Condon, Hickey, and Pleass – he selected Pat Hickey as his "champion player" of the season. ('Old Boy', "Football: A Review of the Season", (Monday, 18 September 1899), p.6).

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References

Wikimedia Commons has media related to Maurie Collins.

• Maurie Collins's playing statistics from AFL Tables
• Maurie Collins at AustralianFootball.com
• Holmesby, Russell and Main, Jim (2007). The Encyclopedia of AFL Footballers. 7th ed. Melbourne: Bas Publishing.

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