Lou Bols

Lou Bols
Personal information
Full name	Louis Edward Bols
Date of birth	(1905-07-29)29 July 1905
Place of birth	Perth, Western Australia
Date of death	2 October 1957(1957-10-02) (aged 52)
Place of death	St Kilda, Victoria
Height	170 cm (5 ft 7 in)
Weight	77 kg (170 lb)
Playing career^1
Years	Club	Games (Goals)
1927–28, 1930	Fitzroy	27 (4)
^1 Playing statistics correct to the end of 1930.
Sources: AFL Tables, AustralianFootball.com

Louis Edward Bols (29 July 1905 – 2 October 1957) was an Australian rules footballer who played with Fitzroy in the Victorian Football League (VFL).^[1]

Footballer

Coach

In 1932 he was the coach of the Old Scotch Football Club team that won the VAFA's A Section premiership, defeating State Savings Bank 13.18 (96) to 10.8 (68) on 17 September 1932.^[2][3]

He was appointed coach of the State Savings Bank VAFA team in the following season (1933).^[4]

Death

He died at his residence in St Kilda, Victoria on 2 October 1957.^[5]

Notes

1. Holmesby & Main (2014), p.76.
2. Amateur Football, The Herald, (Friday, 17 June 1932), p.2.
3. Metropolitan Amateurs, The Age, (Monday, 19 September 1932), p.12.
4. Amateur Sides Prepare, The Herald, (Friday, 28 April 1933), p.15.
5. Deaths: Bols, The Age, (Thursday, 3 October 1957), p.11.

References

• Players who are in the Public Eye: Lou Bols is a Ball of Energy, The Sporting Globe, (Wednesday, 8 May 1930), p.8.
• 'Prefect's Fag', "Noted Men from Public Schools", The Sporting Globe, (Saturday, 10 August 1935), p.7.
• Amateurs: Brunswick, The Age, (Thursday, 1 May 1947), p.9.
• 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.

External links

• Lou Bols's playing statistics from AFL Tables
• Lou Bols at AustralianFootball.com
• Lou Bols, at the VFA Project.