Ernest Leslie Hug (4 March 1944 – 17 June 1978) was an Australian rules footballer who played with Collingwood and South Melbourne in the Victorian Football League (VFL).
[1] The child of parents Ernest Leslie Hug Snr (1919–1977) and Rosemary Eleanor Hug, nee Pavey (1924–2015), Ernest Leslie Hug was born at Dandenong on 4 March 1944.
was drafted to Collingwood under the father-son rule in 1989 but failed to play a senior match for Collingwood.
His other son Peter, died in 1999 from injuries sustained during a football match.
[2] Ernie Hug died in 1978 after a tractor accident on his cattle farm in Heyfield, Victoria.