In 1918-19, an undergraduate, simply named 'Verbuiggen', is listed as playing lower grades for SUCC.
In all likelihood, this is ADRIEN HENRI PIERRE EUGENE VERBRUGGHEN (1899-1985), MB 1921, ChM 1922.
No statistics survive from the 1918-19 season and the names, especially those which have been misspelled, have been long forgotten.
His real surname ought to have been known at the time.
He was descended from Pieter Verbrugghen (1615-1686) and Hendrik Frans Verbrugghen (1654-1724), both Flemish sculptors, whose works adorned Flemish churches.
Adrien's father was Henri Adrien Marie Verbrugghen (1873-1934), born in Belgium, the founding Head of the Sydney Conservatorium in 1915 who had won first prize at the Royal Conservatoire of Music in Brussels in 1889. He was an orchestral violinist and a conductor who toured Scotland and Wales (where Adrien was born in 1899, followed by Marcel (Max) 1904-85 and Phillippe). He was professor at the Glasgow Athenaeum and was chosen over 173 applicants to be the first Director of the NSW State Conservatorium of Music from 1915 until 1923. After that, he conducted in USA where he died in 1934 and where his family continued to live. He was a distinguished presence with an elegant waxed moustache and dark eyes.
After graduation, Doctor Adrien specialized in neurological surgery and spent the rest of his life in USA. His connection with SUCC had been long broken.
He might be forgotten but the surname, correctly spelled, has survived.
In the Sydney Conservatorium, a Hall is named after Henri Verbrugghen. In the Canberra suburb of Melba, there is a street named Verbrugghen Street
Adrien's mother was Alice Emma Beatrice (Beaumont), a singer who married Henri in 1898.
James Rodgers