[2][3] It was as a centreman that he lined up for South Melbourne in the 1914 VFL Grand Final against Carlton, before he got injured and was forced to play the rest of the game as a forward.
[4] In the final moments, with South Melbourne behind by six points, Jim Caldwell kicked the ball towards Bollard who looked set to take a mark in front of the goal posts, before Carlton's Ernie Jamieson took a game saving mark by springing onto the South Melbourne player's back.
[5][6][7] The marking contest was deemed by the umpire to have been fair, a view endorsed by the match report in The Australasian.
[8] In 1915, Bollard made nine league appearances for South Melbourne, in a season which included a stint on the sidelines when he was found guilty of "slinging" Carlton player Ted Brown during South Melbourne's round 11 loss at Princes Park.
[2] Bollard died on 18 March 1920, aged 29, in an industrial accident at a skin store on Queen Street in West Melbourne.