Tim Collins (footballer)


Timothy James Collins was an Australian rules footballer who played with Melbourne in the Victorian Football League.

Football

Hawthorn's captain in the MJFA before joining Melbourne, Collins never played again after seriously injuring his knee in the second quarter of the round 13, 1915 loss to Collingwood.
In May 1919, an unidentified former Melbourne footballer, wrote to the football correspondent of The Argus as follows:

Military service

He subsequently enlisted to serve in World War I.

Death

He died at Camberwell, Victoria on 19 September 1971.