Full name Ernie Hug Name Ernie Hug Height/Weight 193 cm / 87 kg | Original team(s) St Pat's | |
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Date of birth (1944-03-04)4 March 1944 Date of death 17 June 1978(1978-06-17) (aged 34) Died June 17, 1978, Heyfield, Australia | ||
Ernie Hug (4 March 1944 – 17 June 1978) was a former Australian rules footballer who played with Collingwood and South Melbourne in the Victorian Football League (VFL).
His son, Ernie, Jr. was drafted to Collingwood under the father-son rule in 1989, but never played senior football for Collingwood. He was later drafted by Sydney and then Hawthorn, but never made his AFL debut. His other son Peter, died in 1999 from injuries sustained during a football match.
He died in 1978 after an tractor accident on his cattle farm in Heyfield, Victoria.
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