fullname heightweight death_date years clubs statsend originalteam birth_date article_title name
david j. ferguson 177 ; kg & nbsp ; cm / 86 & nbsp 16 november 1975 1924-1928 1931 '' ` total - '' ' geelong north melbourne 1931 kalgoorlie city -lrb- gfa -rrb- 5 february 1903 dave j. ferguson
 dave ferguson
dave j. ferguson

david j. `` dave '' ferguson -lrb- 5 february 1903 -- 16 november 1975 -rrb- was an australian rules footballer who played with geelong and north melbourne in the victorian football league -lrb- vfl -rrb- .
ferguson came from the western australian town of kurrawang and played his early football for kalgoorlie city in the goldfields football association .
as a centre half-forward , he was good enough to be selected to represent the league in exhibition games .
when he joined geelong in 1924 he began playing as a backman .
he was one of the geelong defenders which kept gordon coventry goal-less in the 1925 vfl grand final , which they won by 10 points .
after missing the semi final , ferguson had returned to the side at the expense of young frank mockridge .
in the final moments of the grand final , he beat three geelong forwards to take a crucial defensive mark , despite having fallen onto his back .
he returned to the goldfields in 1926 but resumed his vfl career in 1927 , firstly at geelong , then at north melbourne for the 1931 season .
