Otto Buck


Samuel Otto John Buck was an Australian rules footballer who played with Carlton in the Victorian Football League. He had previously been a member of Carlton's 1896 VFA team.

Family

The son of the watchmaker Francis James Buck, and Ann Elizabeth "Nettie" Buck, née Sparks, Samuel Otto John Buck was born at St Arnaud, Victoria on 15 November 1876.
He married Florence Loveday Hince in 1897. He married Cecilia Hickey in 1904.

Football

He was a member of the Carlton team that played against Fitzroy in the first game of the first VFL season, at the Brunswick Street Oval, on 8 May 1897.