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Max Millen

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Max Millen
Personal information
Full name Stanley Mac Millen
Date of birth (1909-07-07)7 July 1909
Place of birth Seymour, Victoria
Date of death 4 September 1973(1973-09-04) (aged 64)
Place of death Prince Henry's Hospital,
South Melbourne, Victoria
Height 172 cm (5 ft 8 in)
Weight 72 kg (159 lb)
Playing career1
Years Club Games (Goals)
1932 North Melbourne 8 (7)
1 Playing statistics correct to the end of 1932.
Sources: AFL Tables, AustralianFootball.com

Stanley Mac "Max" Millen (7 July 1909 – 4 September 1973) was an Australian rules footballer who played with North Melbourne in the Victorian Football League (VFL).[1]

Family

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The son of George Robert Millen (1873-1957), and Edith Elizabeth Millen (1874-1940), née Rice,[2] Stanley Mac Millen was born at Seymour, Victoria on 7 July 1909.

His brother, Jack Millen, played VFL football with Fitzroy, and VFA football with Coburg.

He married Noreen Johnson (1915-1996) in 1937.

Football

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In 1931 he was granted a clearance from Fitzroy to South Melbourne,[3] and, in 1932, from South Melbourne to North Melbourne.

North Melbourne (VFL)

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North Melbourne had finished the 1931 home-and-away VFL season with 18 losses from 18 matches.

Millen played his first game for the North Melbourne First XVIII, among six "new" players -- i.e., Les Allen, Tom Leather, Millen, Jack Smith, Dick Taylor, Jack Welsh -- under the team's new captain-coach, Taylor, against Geelong, at Corio Oval, on 30 April 1932.[4]

Death

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He died at Prince Henry's Hospital, in South Melbourne, Victoria, on 4 September 1973.[5]

Notes

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References

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  • Holmesby, Russell; Main, Jim (2014). The Encyclopedia of AFL Footballers: every AFL/VFL player since 1897 (10th ed.). Seaford, Victoria: BAS Publishing. ISBN 978-1-921496-32-5.
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