# List of VFL debuts in 1914

This is a listing of Australian rules footballers who made their senior debut for a Victorian Football League (VFL) club in 1914.
1914 was University's final season in the VFL.

## Summary

Summary of debuts in 1914 :
| Club | VFL debuts | Change of club |
| Carlton | 11 | 4 |
| Collingwood | 7 | 2 |
| Essendon | 8 | 4 |
| Fitzroy | 4 | 1 |
| Geelong | 4 | 1 |
| Melbourne | 18 | 7 |
| Richmond | 13 | 3 |
| South Melbourne | 11 | 3 |
| St Kilda | 15 | 3 |
| University | 14 | 2 |
| Total | 105 | 30 |

## Debuts

| Name | Club | Age at debut | Round debuted | Games | Goals | Notes |
| Percy Daykin | Carlton | 23 years, 292 days | 1 | 134 | 136 | |
| Charlie Fisher | Carlton | 21 years, 166 days | 2 | 111 | 147 | |
| Ted Brown | Carlton | 19 years, 214 days | 1 | 95 | 1 | Previously played for St Kilda |
| Steve Leehane | Carlton | 22 years, 187 days | 1 | 82 | 14 | |
| Dan Keily | Carlton | 21 years, 344 days | 1 | 53 | 1 | |
| Herb Burleigh | Carlton | 21 years, 329 days | 3 | 32 | 55 | |
| Jimmy Morris | Carlton | 23 years, 37 days | 17 | 26 | 14 | |
| George Calwell | Carlton | 22 years, 304 days | 2 | 24 | 3 | |
| Bill Cook | Carlton | 26 years, 266 days | 6 | 16 | 27 | |
| Stanley McKenzie | Carlton | 24 years, 20 days | 7 | 14 | 6 | Played first-class cricket for Tasmania |
| Jack Lowe | Carlton | 21 years, 186 days | 4 | 13 | 9 | Previously played for Collingwood |
| Jim Willis | Carlton | 22 years, 224 days | 1 | 10 | 1 | |
| Albert Scaddan | Carlton | 26 years, 177 days | 6 | 3 | 1 | Brother of Joe Scaddan |
| Joe Andrew | Carlton | 25 years, 43 days | 6 | 2 | 0 | |
| Arthur Harrison | Carlton | 22 years, 354 days | 1 | 1 | 1 | |
| Harry Curtis | Collingwood | 20 years, 296 days | 13 | 122 | 149 | Previously played for Carlton |
| Maurie Sheehy | Collingwood | 20 years, 324 days | 2 | 110 | 22 | |
| Gus Dobrigh | Collingwood | 21 years, 80 days | 2 | 88 | 33 | |
| Max Hislop | Collingwood | 18 years, 250 days | 2 | 9 | 4 | |
| Harry Matheson | Collingwood | 22 years, 331 days | 2 | 9 | 8 | Previously played for St Kilda and Melbourne. |
| Tom Pollard | Collingwood | 19 years, 313 days | 4 | 6 | 2 | |
| Les Huntington | Collingwood | 21 years, 346 days | 1 | 4 | 0 | |
| Charlie Mutch | Collingwood | 20 years, 279 days | 7 | 3 | 0 | |
| Colin Dufty | Collingwood | 24 years, 147 days | 1 | 1 | 1 | |
| Bert Day | Essendon | 20 years, 111 days | 14 | 68 | 0 | |
| Horrie Webster | Essendon | 25 years, 267 days | 3 | 23 | 13 | Previously played for South Melbourne. |
| Tommy Wade | Essendon | 20 years, 107 days | 11 | 23 | 4 | |
| Bill Dinsmore | Essendon | 27 years, 070 days | 1 | 13 | 17 | Previously played for Fitzroy. |
| Neil King | Essendon | 24 years, 299 days | 2 | 3 | 0 | |
| Harry Neate | Essendon | 20 years, 6 days | 2 | 3 | 0 | |
| Arthur Mann | Essendon | 24 years, 343 days | 12 | 3 | 0 | |
| Jim Freeman | Essendon | 24 years, 155 days | 1 | 2 | 0 | |
| Bob Rahilly | Essendon | 26 years, 294 days | 2 | 2 | 4 | Previously played for Fitzroy. |
| Basil Nehill | Essendon | 22 years, 354 days | 6 | 2 | 0 | Previously played for St Kilda. |
| Frank Hurren | Essendon | 20 years, 208 days | 18 | 2 | 1 | |
| Henry Elkington | Essendon | 24 years, 90 days | 5 | 1 | 0 | |
| Paddy Abbott | Fitzroy | 25 years, 103 days | 4 | 40 | 1 | Previously played for South Melbourne. |
| George Pattison | Fitzroy | 24 years, 341 days | 10 | 8 | 0 | |
| Arthur Jones | Fitzroy | 22 years, 202 days | 2 | 7 | 3 | |
| Bob Teasdale | Fitzroy | 22 years, 336 days | 6 | 1 | 0 | |
| Stan Rodgerson | Fitzroy | 20 years, 70 days | 18 | 1 | 0 | |
| Bill Moulden | Geelong | 24 years, 299 days | 1 | 34 | 2 | |
| Harry Allen | Geelong | 23 years, 353 days | 3 | 20 | 6 | |
| Jack Blencowe | Geelong | 23 years, 34 days | 10 | 2 | 2 | Previously played for Essendon |
| Gordon Burleigh | Geelong | 25 years, 53 days | 4 | 1 | 0 | |
| Harold Conradi | Geelong | 19 years, 299 days | 5 | 1 | 0 | |
| George Walker | Melbourne | 19 years, 346 days | 1 | 49 | 0 | |
| Alec Gray | Melbourne | 22 years, 355 days | 2 | 52 | 2 | |
| Jack Huntington | Melbourne | 20 years, 337 days | 1 | 43 | 43 | |
| Tim Collins | Melbourne | 24 years, 122 days | 1 | 20 | 20 | |
| Bert Trahair | Melbourne | 22 years, 238 days | 1 | 18 | 7 | |
| Vic Gordon | Melbourne | 23 years, 167 days | 1 | 15 | 4 | Previously played for St Kilda. |
| Jack Connole | Melbourne | 23 years, 312 days | 7 | 14 | 12 | |
| Arthur Best | Melbourne | 23 years, 229 days | 6 | 12 | 30 | Previously played for St Kilda. |
| Billy Quinn | Melbourne | 23 years, 286 days | 3 | 11 | 2 | |
| Alex Fraser | Melbourne | 21 years, 346 days | 16 | 10 | 2 | |
| Rupe Lowell | Melbourne | 19 years, 239 days | 5 | 9 | 0 | Previously played for Essendon. |
| Bill Brunier | Melbourne | 25 years, 88 days | 15 | 9 | 8 | |
| Alf Williamson | Melbourne | 18 years, 225 days | 7 | 8 | 5 | Previously played for Carlton. |
| John Daly | Melbourne | 23 years, 196 days | 11 | 8 | 0 | |
| Les Smith | Melbourne | 22 years, 61 days | 4 | 7 | 1 | |
| Roy MacDonald | Melbourne | 22 years, 327 days | 11 | 8 | 0 | |
| Cliff Burge | Melbourne | 21 years, 363 days | 1 | 5 | 1 | |
| Percy Colee | Melbourne | 21 years, 165 days | 1 | 5 | 3 | |
| Harry Britter | Melbourne | 22 years, 313 days | 2 | 5 | 5 | |
| Eric Parsons | Melbourne | 23 years, 96 days | 2 | 2 | 0 | |
| Jack Woolley | Melbourne | 27 years, 150 days | 4 | 2 | 2 | Previously played for Essendon. |
| Aubrey MacKenzie | Melbourne | 19 years, 268 days | 14 | 2 | 0 | |
| Herbert Roberts | Melbourne | 23 years, 142 days | 1 | 1 | 0 | |
| Wal Riddington | Melbourne | 20 years, 213 days | 2 | 1 | 0 | |
| Roy Gray | Melbourne | 21 years, 197 days | 4 | 1 | 0 | Previously played for Collingwood. |
| George Bayliss | Richmond | 19 years, 145 days | 17 | 89 | 217 | |
| Frank Hughes | Richmond | 20 years, 072 days | 3 | 87 | 51 | |
| Reg Hede | Richmond | 19 years, 254 days | 10 | 85 | 1 | |
| Artie Bettles | Richmond | 23 years, 38 days | 2 | 73 | 0 | |
| Bill Thomas | Richmond | 27 years, 173 days | 2 | 62 | 3 | Previously played for South Melbourne. Father of Len Thomas. |
| Bill Nolan | Richmond | 25 years, 233 days | 1 | 30 | 4 | |
| Jack Cronk | Richmond | 23 years, 283 days | 2 | 23 | 11 | |
| Allan Granger | Richmond | 19 years, 361 days | 15 | 11 | 11 | |
| Bob McKendry | Richmond | 23 years, 250 days | 1 | 6 | 1 | |
| George McLear | Richmond | 22 years, 247 days | 1 | 3 | 0 | |
| Bill Thorpe | Richmond | 20 years, 122 days | 3 | 2 | 2 | |
| George Driscoll | Richmond | 20 years, 218 days | 15 | 2 | 0 | |
| Harry Maynard | Richmond | 24 years, 97 days | 17 | 2 | 0 | |
| Len Gibb | Richmond | 25 years, 220 days | 4 | 1 | 0 | Previously played for Collingwood. |
| Wal Rogers | Richmond | 25 years, 29 days | 8 | 1 | 0 | |
| Dave Smith | Richmond | 29 years, 267 days | 8 | 1 | 3 | Previously played for Essendon. |
| Harry Morgan | South Melbourne | 24 years, 345 days | 1 | 60 | 100 | |
| Alan O'Donoghue | South Melbourne | 22 years, 340 days | 3 | 44 | 15 | Previously played for Richmond |
| Ben Hair | South Melbourne | 21 years, 208 days | 1 | 43 | 3 | |
| Herb Matthews | South Melbourne | 19 years, 291 days | 10 | 32 | 27 | Son Herbie Matthews won the 1940 Brownlow Medal |
| George Payne | South Melbourne | 20 years, 176 days | 5 | 26 | 14 | |
| Tom Bollard | South Melbourne | 23 years, 268 days | 13 | 24 | 0 | |
| Claude Thomas | South Melbourne | 23 years, 24 days | 3 | 13 | 0 | |
| Percy Jackson | South Melbourne | 20 years, 066 days | 7 | 8 | 5 | |
| Harold Bennett | South Melbourne | 19 years, 324 days | 1 | 7 | 0 | Previously played for University |
| Charlie Jones | South Melbourne | 25 years, 223 days | 9 | 7 | 1 | |
| Bill Hennington | South Melbourne | | 4 | 6 | 0 | |
| Wally Laidlaw | South Melbourne | 22 years, 331 days | 10 | 3 | 0 | |
| Jack O'Brien | South Melbourne | 21 years, 116 days | 9 | 2 | 2 | |
| Herb Joolen | South Melbourne | 23 years, 339 days | 16 | 1 | 1 | Previously played for Melbourne. |
| Pat Maloney | St Kilda | 20 years, 177 days | 18 | 44 | 8 | |
| Norm Turnbull | St Kilda | 19 years, 314 days | 1 | 31 | 14 | |
| Bill Lowrie | St Kilda | 21 years, 161 days | 9 | 30 | 27 | |
| Algy Sharp | St Kilda | 24 years, 355 days | 10 | 21 | 29 | |
| Orm Fowler | St Kilda | 22 years, 177 days | 6 | 9 | 11 | Previously played for Fitzroy. |
| Harry Jane | St Kilda | 20 years, 299 days | 8 | 10 | 1 | Previously played for Carlton. |
| Roy Farmer | St Kilda | 21 years, 139 days | 1 | 8 | 2 | |
| Bobby Donald | St Kilda | 20 years, 46 days | 1 | 7 | 2 | |
| Bert Chapman | St Kilda | 22 years, 152 days | 2 | 7 | 1 | |
| Stan Brady | St Kilda | 27 years, 40 days | 6 | 7 | 5 | |
| Harry Horsenail | St Kilda | 22 years, 223 days | 18 | 6 | 2 | |
| Len Phillips | St Kilda | 24 years, 11 days | 1 | 5 | 6 | |
| Jack Watt | St Kilda | 24 years, 251 days | 13 | 5 | 3 | Previously played for Geelong and Melbourne. |
| Ernie Foo | St Kilda | 22 years, 290 days | 4 | 4 | 2 | |
| Angus McDonald | St Kilda | 23 years, 181 days | 1 | 2 | 1 | |
| Vern Couttie | St Kilda | 23 years, 114 days | 18 | 1 | 1 | |
| George McDonald | St Kilda | 21 years, 188 days | 18 | 1 | 1 | |
| Clarrie Roberts | St Kilda | 25 years, 298 days | 18 | 1 | 0 | |
| Percy Rodriguez | University | 21 years, 110 days | 1 | 17 | 1 | |
| Wally Don | University | 22 years, 226 days | 3 | 15 | 0 | Previously played for Carlton |
| Leslie Marks | University | 21 years, 132 days | 1 | 14 | 13 | |
| Heinrich Schrader | University | 20 years, 141 days | 1 | 13 | 4 | Played first-class cricket for Victoria |
| Gerald Johnston | University | 22 years, 343 days | 6 | 11 | 0 | |
| Frank Cameron | University | 22 years, 57 days | 9 | 8 | 0 | |
| Claude Bryan | University | 21 years, 123 days | 1 | 7 | 0 | |
| Cyril Seelenmeyer | University | 22 years, 3 days | 2 | 6 | 1 | Received the Military Cross for gallantry during WWI |
| Reuben Patton | University | 30 years, 267 days | 3 | 6 | 0 | |
| Howard Stafford | University | 21 years, 76 days | 8 | 5 | 2 | |
| Bob Heatley | University | 19 years, 12 days | 14 | 4 | 0 | |
| Jim Houghton | University | 22 years, 245 days | 5 | 3 | 0 | |
| Will Houghton | University | 24 years, 110 days | 1 | 2 | 0 | |
| Gordon Morrissey | University | 20 years, 045 days | 17 | 2 | 0 | |
| Cyril Steele | University | 22 years, 353 days | 6 | 1 | 0 | Previously played for Melbourne |
| Adrian Farmer | University | 19 years, 161 days | 17 | 1 | 2 | |