Horrie Gorringe

Horrie Gorringe
Personal information
Full name	Horace Charles Gorringe
Date of birth	(1895-07-04)4 July 1895
Place of birth	Tasmania
Date of death
Place of death	Cygnet, Tasmania
Debut	25 April 1914 , Cananore v. North Hobart, at TCA Ground
Playing career
Years	Club	Games (Goals)
1914-1930	Cananore
Career highlights
Player of the Carnival, 1924 Hobart Carnival 5 time Cananore premiership player Named as a forward pocket in the Tasmanian Team of the Century in 2004 Inducted as an Icon of the Tasmanian Football Hall of Fame in 2005 Inducted into the Australian Football Hall of Fame in 2011

Horace Charles "Horrie" Gorringe was a Tasmanian Australian rules football player, considered one of the greatest Australian rules football rovers in the game's history. Horrie Gorringe was born on 4 July 1895 and died on 17 July 1994, aged 99.

Gorringe played for the Cananore club in the Tasmanian Football League between the years 1914 and 1930. He was Club Champion in 1928, winning the Most Consistent award. He played numerous matches at representative level for both the league and the state.

The "Horrie Gorringe Medal" was between 2002 and 2005 a brief replacement of the William Leitch Medal for the Best and Fairest footballer in Tasmania. Gorringe was inducted into the Australian Football Hall of Fame in 2011; he was the first and, as of 2014, only player who played his entire career in Tasmania to have been inducted.