Percy Ogden
Percival Gordon Ogden was an Australian rules footballer who played with and coached Essendon in the Victorian Football League.
Family
The son of William Ogden, and Ellen Ogden, née Wilcox, later Mrs. James Taylor, Percival Gordon Ogden was born at Canterbury, New South Wales on 24 February 1886.He married Mary Kathleen Gaynor, at Northcote, on 16 May 1906. They had four children; two boys and two girls. Both sons played in the VFL: Gordon Francis Ogden, with Melbourne, and Terence William John "Terry" Ogden, with Melbourne and Carlton.
Football
Collingwood (VFL)
A rover, Ogden started his career with Collingwood in 1905.Preston (VFA)
He played just four games with the club before moving to Association team Preston.Essendon (VFL)
He returned to the VFL in 1910 with Essendon. Ogden was a member of Essendon's back-to-back premiership wins in 1911 and 1912.Representative football
In 1907, while playing with Preston, he represented the VFA in the match against South Australia, at the East Melbourne Cricket Ground, on 8 June 1907.While playing at Essendon he represented the VFL in 1912, and 1913, at the 1914 ANFC Carnival in Sydney, in 1919, and 1920, and at the 1921 ANFC Carnival in Perth, and was the captain of Victoria in a game against South Australia in 1920.