Tags: Australian Rules Football Player.
Henry Arthur ‘Harry’ Dowdall (29 June 1872 – 1913) was an Australian rules footballer who played for Collingwood in the inaugural Victorian Football League (VFL) season. The son of James Dowdall and Isabella McGowan Dowdall was small of stature and lightly built and used these traits to his advantage particularly in wet weather.In Collingwood’s final game of the 1897 season Dowdall refused to play unless he was allowed to play on the ball for the entirety of the game.