Horrie Pope

Horrie Pope
Personal information
Full name	Horace Victor Pope
Date of birth	(1887-06-05)5 June 1887
Place of birth	North Adelaide, South Australia
Date of death	19 June 1949(1949-06-19) (aged 62)
Place of death	Franklin, South Australia
Playing career
Years	Club	Games (Goals)
1905-1920	Port Adelaide	156
Career highlights
3× Port Adelaide premiership player (1906, 1913, 1914) 3× Championship of Australia (1910, 1913, 1914)
Source: AustralianFootball.com

Horace Victor Pope (5 June 1887 – 19 June 1949) was an Australian rules footballer who played for Port Adelaide. He captained the club in the second half of 1919.^[1]

The son of Rev. Henry James Pope (1844-1919),^[2][3] and Grace Holman Pope (1857-1920), née Temby,^[4] Horace Victor Pope was born in North Adelaide, South Australia on 5 June 1887.

He married Eliza Hilda Williams (1880-1957) on 1 July 1912,^[5] They had three children: a stillborn daughter,^[6] and two sons, Kenneth Charles Pope (1917-1944),^[7][8][9] and Richard Horace Pope (1919-1942).^[10][11][12]

From 1905 to 1919, Horrie Pope played 155 games for Port Adelaide; and he also played in one additional game in 1920. When Alex "Bandy" McFarlane resigned mid-way through the 1919 season, Pope was appointed captain of the team.

Horrie Pope died at his home at Franklin (now known as Pennington, South Australia) on 19 June 1949,^[13][14] and was buried at the Cheltenham Cemetery on 21 June 1949.^[15]

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