Basil McCormack

A left-foot kick, recruited from Rochester,[2] he played 200 senior games for the Richmond Football Club as a half-back flanker,[3] and represented Victoria on 13 occasions.

He played well; with the match report noting that "McCormack … who marks and kicks well, [was] looking a very likely man".

[6] It was also the Hawthorn team's first match in the VFL competition, the former VFA club having been admitted (along with Footscray and North Melbourne) in the January of that year.

[9] He coached St. Virgil's in the Tasmanian Amateur Football League from 1948 to 1950.

Having enlisted in the militia in 1939, the transferred to the Second AIF in 1943, and saw action in the Pacific Islands.

The Victorian Football League's Interstate team that drew with South Australia, in Adelaide, 13.10 (88) to 11.22 (88) on Saturday, 16 June 1928.
Back Row : Jack Moriarty , Albert "Leeter" Collier , Hugh Dunbar , Gordon "Nuts" Coventry , Bob Johnson , Jack Baggott .
Second Row : Jack Vosti , Charlie Stanbridge , Arthur Stevens , Alex Duncan , Dick Taylor , Ted Baker .
Front Row : Basil McCormack, Arthur Rayson , Alan Geddes (vice-captain), Syd Coventry (captain), Barney Carr , Arthur “Bull” Coghlan , Herbert White .