Full name Walter Douglas Chapman Name Doug Chapman Place of birth Dromana, Victoria Role Australian footballer | Original team Dromana Height/Weight 191 cm / 85.5 kg | |
Date of birth (1889-05-24)24 May 1889 Date of death 18 November 1975(1975-11-18) (aged 86) Died November 18, 1975, Box Hill, Melbourne, Australia | ||
Place of death Box Hill, Victoria | ||
Walter Douglas "Doug" Chapman was an Australian rules footballer who played with Richmond and Melbourne in the Victorian Football League (VFL).
Born in Dromana to Henry George Chapman and Isobella Gibson, Doug Chapman joined Richmond from Dromana at the start of the 1908 VFL season. In 1910 he transferred to Essendon Association Football Club in the Victorian Football Association (VFA) and he was a member of their premiership winning team in 1912. He returned to the VFL when he joined Melbourne, where he made ten senior appearances during the 1913 VFL season. In 1914 he joined Hawthorn in their first year of senior football in the VFA and he played until 1919, making 29 appearances in total for the club.
In 1917 he married Eveline Vere Innes and they lived in the eastern suburbs of Melbourne until his death in 1975.