‘It's addictive': Historian hunts for photos of every Fitzroy player
But three years later, Stanley Spencer Reid died, after being shot in the stomach while fighting in the Boer War, in what is now South Africa.
He was 28 years old, but not forgotten by Brenden Campbell.
Campbell, the club archivist for Fitzroy and its current incarnation, the Brisbane Lions, has spent 20 years tracing photos of all 1157 men who played at least one game for Fitzroy.
Just 21 images remain to be found.
The 1136 profiles found so far form a dazzling montage on a wall in the club's museum at Marvel Stadium in Docklands.
They date from 1897, when Fitzroy joined the Victorian Football League, to the eve of the club's move to Queensland in 1996.
The story of Reid, who after the 1898 premiership became a Presbyterian minister, preaching in Western Australia before enlisting to fight in the Boer war, moved Campbell the most. 'It brought a tear to my eye. It's just a sad, sad story,' he said.
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