title: Reefton Spicer
text: # Reefton Spicer
  
  Reefton Harry Adolphus Spicer (17 July 1898 – 22 April 1978) was an Australian rules footballer who played with Richmond in the Victorian Football League (VFL).
  
  ## Family
  
  The son of Ernest Edward Spicer (1877-1936), and Adelina Ann Elizabeth Spicer (1877-1943), née Bailhache, Reefton Harry Adolphus Spicer, known as "Harry", was born at South Yarra, Victoria on 17 July 1898.
  
  He married Doris Annie O'Brien (1900-1974) in 1925.
  
  ## Football
  
  ### Richmond (VFL)
  
  Recruited from Richmond Districts, he played on the wing and in the back-pocket for the Richmond Football Club — in one senior game in 1917, and in two senior games in 1918.
  
  ### Brunswick (VFA)
  
  Cleared from Richmond, he played one senior game for the Brunswick Football Club in 1919.
  
  ### Williamstown (VFA)
  
  He played four senior games for the Williamstown Football Club in 1920.
  
  ## Death
  
  He died at Brighton, Victoria on 22 April 1978.
  
  ## Footnotes
  
  * ↑ Holmesby & Main (2014), p.839.
  * ↑ Deaths: Spicer, The Age, (Tuesday, 11 August 1936), p.1.
  * ↑ Marriages: Spicer—Bailhache, The Age(Saturday, 26 November 1898), p.5: married at South Yarra on 31 August 1897.
  * ↑ Deaths: Spicer, The Argus, (Thursday, 3 June 1943), p.2.
  * ↑ He was named "Reefton" after his father's birthplace: his father was born at Reefton, in New Zealand, in 1877.
  * ↑ Hogan (1996), p.215.
  * ↑ Football, The Age, (Friday, 2 May 1919), p.9.
  * ↑ Deaths: "Spicer, Harry", The Age, (Monday, 24 April 1978), p.22.
  