Australian Football

Popularly known as 'Mac', Alf Gough was a strong, resourceful follower who joined Carlton from Barwon in 1903 but managed only one senior game. Two years later, however, he enjoyed a much more successful stab at VFL football, playing 44 games and kicking 13 goals in three seasons with Geelong. After leaving the Pivotonians Gough joined Essendon Association, and was heavily instrumental in the club's emergence as a power. In both 1911 and 1912 he was a key member of the Dreadnoughts' VFA premiership teams. His final two playing seasons were spent at Hawthorn in 1914 and 1915, where he added important experience to the Mayblooms in their first two VFA seasons. 

Author - John Devaney, with updates by Andrew Gigacz