fullname years death_date clubs birth_place statsend originalteam birth_date article_title name
fred mann 1901 -- 03 22 february 1970 essendon england 1903 leopold 25 october 1878 fred mann -lrb- footballer -rrb-
 fred mann
fred mann -lrb- footballer -rrb-

fred mann -lrb- 25 october 1878 -- 22 february 1970 -rrb- was an australian rules footballer who played with essendon in the victorian football league -lrb- vfl -rrb- .
mann , recruited from leopold but born in england , played his first vfl game in 1901 .
in his first season he was a member of essendon 's premiership team and played in their grand final loss a year later , in 1902 .
a defender , he spent the rest of the decade in the west australian football league , first at east fremantle for a season in 1904 and then at south fremantle for a longer stint which saw him play 77 games .
ken mann , his grandson , as well as peter mann , his great-grandson , played in the vfl/afl .
