Joe Ritchie (footballer)


Joseph Duncan Ritchie was an Australian rules footballer who played with St Kilda in the Victorian Football League.

Family

The son of Joseph Duncan Ritchie, and Mary Jane Ritchie, née Tawse, Joseph Duncan Ritchie was born in Numurkah on 26 September 1886.
He married Alice May Coles in 1917.

Football

Ritchie was recruited from the Drumanure Football Club, in the Goulburn Valley Football Association, after he was best on ground in Drumanure's 1908 GVFA grand final win against the Muckatah Football Club.