Doh! I've just spent well over an hour trying to figure out who the "McKenna" who played for Collingwood in rd. 9 1900 was. He's named that way (with the quotation marks) in The Australasian, without them in The Age and The Argus, which said "McKenna, who is said to be every bit as good a man as...
George Simmonds played four games for Melbourne in 1924, his only VFL season, debuting at age 29. The AFL had him as being born 16 July 1895 on the Historical Stats website and presumably this is still regarded as his official DOB.
He was George L. 'Nugget' Simmonds and "from Kerang" according...