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{{short description|Australian sportsman}}
{{Use dmy dates|date=March 2021}}
{{Use Australian English|date=September 2012}}
{{Infobox cricketer
| name              = Albert Hartkopf
| image             = Albert Hartkopf.jpg
| caption           =
| fullname          = Albert Ernst Victor Hartkopf
| birth_date        = {{birth date|df=yes|1889|12|28}}
| birth_place       = [[Fitzroy North, Victoria]]
| death_date        = {{death date and age|df=yes|1968|5|20|1889|12|28}}
| death_place       = [[Kew, Victoria]]
| batting           = Right-handed
| bowling           = Legbreak
| columns           = 2
| column1           = [[Test cricket|Test]]
| matches1          = 1
| runs1             = 80
| bat avg1          = 40.00
| 100s/50s1         = 0/1
| top score1        = 80
| deliveries1       = 240
| wickets1          = 1
| bowl avg1         = 134.00
| fivefor1          = 0
| tenfor1           = 0
| best bowling1     = 1/120
| catches/stumpings1= 0/–
| column2           = [[First-class cricket|First-class]]
| matches2          = 41 
| runs2             = 1,758
| bat avg2          = 34.47
| 100s/50s2         = 2/12
| top score2        = 126
| deliveries2       = 6,494
| wickets2          = 121
| bowl avg2         = 30.79
| fivefor2          = 7
| tenfor2           = 1
| best bowling2     = 8/105
| catches/stumpings2= 36/–
| international     = true
| onetest           = true
| country           = Australia
| testdebutagainst  = England
|           testcap = 120
| testdebutdate     = 1 January
| testdebutyear     = 1925
| source            = http://content-aus.cricinfo.com/ci/content/player/5591.html CricInfo
| date              = 23 August
| year              = 2019
}}

'''Albert Ernst Victor Hartkopf''' (28 December 1889 – 20 May 1968) was an Australian sportsman who played [[Test cricket]] for Australia and [[Australian rules football]] for [[Melbourne University Football Club]].

==Family==
Born in [[North Fitzroy, Victoria]] to Ernst Robert Hartkopf (1849-1915),<ref>[http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article1579356 Deaths: Hartkopf, ''The Argus'', (Monday, 15 November 1915), p.1.]</ref> and Mary Louise Hartkopf (1859-1939), née Ranke,<ref>[http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article138078542 Marriages: Hartkopf—Ramke, ''The Australasian Supplement'', (Saturday, 13 May 1882), p.7.]</ref><ref>[http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article205630877 Deaths: Hartkopf, ''The Age'', (Friday, 16 June 1939), p.1.]</ref> [[German people|German]] migrants.

He married Isabel Faulks on 23 February 1918.<ref>[http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article140202687 Weddings: Hartkopf—Faulk, ''The Australasian'', (Saturday, 9 March 1918), p.38.]</ref>

==Education==
Hartkopf attended [[Scotch College, Melbourne]] from 1897 to 1909,<ref>[https://www.scotch.vic.edu.au/greatscot/2009sepGS/81b.htm Albert Hartkopf (1889–1968): A Great-All-Rounder, ''Great Scot'', September 2009.]</ref> attracting attention as a cricketer,<ref>[http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article22816222 Taylor, P., ". . from the World of Sport", ''The Argus'', (Wednesday, 15 March 1950), p.28.]</ref> footballer, and, especially, a star schoolboy athlete:<ref>[https://www.scotch.vic.edu.au/greatscot/2010mayGS/52b.htm Ashton, D., "Hartkopf baggy green caps off Test display", ''Great Scot'', May 2010.]</ref>
:: A. E. Hartkopf (S.C. [Scotch College]), however, was the champion of the meeting, winning no fewer than five championships [viz., Open 100 yards, 220 yards, 440 yards, shot put, and long jump (and came fourth in the Open high jump)] in four of them beating the previous best of these contests. Hartkopf is probably the most remarkable schoolboy athlete there has been in Victoria, as, in addition to his athletic ability, he is a prominent footballer in the University League team, and also playing for the Fitzroy club in cricket last year won their bowling average.<ref>[http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article196038091 Combined Public Schools Sports, ''The Age'', (Saturday, 30 October 1909), p.16.]</ref>

After Scotch College, Hartkopf studied medicine at the [[University of Melbourne]], and graduated [[Bachelor of Medicine, Bachelor of Surgery|Bachelor of Medicine and Bachelor of Surgery (MBBS)]] on 17 April 1915.<ref>[http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article1510952 Commencement Day: Granting of Degrees, ''The Argus'', (Monday, 19 May 1915), p13.]</ref>

==Football==
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| alt = 
| caption = Bert Hartkopf (1910)
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| originalteam = Scotch College
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| position = Centre half-forward
| guernsey = 
| statsend = 1914
| years1 = 1908–11; 1914
| club1 = [[Melbourne University Football Club|University]]
| games_goals1 = 48 (87)
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He represented University in the [[VFL/AFL|Victorian Football League]]. Renowned for the length and accuracy of his place-kicks,<ref>[http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article181665422 Shelton, J.M., "Where are the Good Old Place-Kicks", ''The Sporting Globe'' (Saturday, 24 July 1943), p.3.]</ref> he played 48 games and kicking 87 goals.

==All-round athlete==
In 1911, Hartkopf cemented his position as one of Australia's best all-round sportsmen by becoming the Victorian state 440 yards champion and making his [[first-class cricket]] debut for [[Victorian Bushrangers|Victoria]] on 23 December 1911 against [[New South Wales cricket team|New South Wales]] at the [[Melbourne Cricket Ground]], scoring an unbeaten 42 and a duck and taking 2/20 with his leg break bowling. He was a regular member of Victoria's cricket side and University's football side until injury and then [[World War I]] restricted Hartkopf's sporting career.

==Medicine==
During World War I, Hartkopf worked first at the Royal Women's Hospital in [[Melbourne]] and then at the Royal Children's Hospital in [[Perth]], Western Australia. There is no evidence to suggest his German background caused him problems during the war.

==Cricket==
In 1919 Hartkopf returned to Melbourne, opening a medical practice in [[Northcote, Victoria|Northcote]] and returned to cricket, playing his first game for Victoria for six years, scoring 53 and 49 against New South Wales.  In 1922/23 in a match for Victoria against the touring [[Marylebone Cricket Club|MCC]] he took 5 for 23 and 8 for 105, and scored 86 and 14 not out.  In November 1924, an unbeaten half century for Victoria against the touring [[English cricket team|English]] side led to his selection, at age 35, in the Australian team for the second Test of the 1924/25 series against England at the MCG.  Batting at number 8, Hartkopf scored 80 in Australia's first innings but could only produce match figures of 1/134 and was dropped from the team.

Hartkopf continued to play for Victoria until the end of the 1927/28 season but never returned to the national side.  He then concentrated on his medical practice.

==Death==
Albert Hartkopf died in [[Kew, Victoria]], on 20 May 1968, after a long battle with rheumatoid arthritis.<ref>[https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=fSdWAAAAIBAJ&sjid=cOMDAAAAIBAJ&pg=4397%2C4062277 Death of Cricket Identity, ''The Age'', (Thursday, May 23 1968), p.28.]</ref>

Unusually, his obituary was not recorded in ''[[Wisden Cricketers' Almanack|Wisden]]'' until 1994.

==Footnotes==
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==References==
*[http://content-aus.cricinfo.com/ci/content/player/5591.html Cricinfo page on Albert Hartkopf]
*[https://web.archive.org/web/20060906120426/http://dhe.darebin-libraries.vic.gov.au/encyclopedia.asp?id=228 Article on Hartkopf from the Darebin Historical Encyclopaedia]
*[http://content-www.cricinfo.com/magazine/content/story/296109.html Brydon Coverdale, "Australia's Winter Allrounders: XI Test Cricketers who played Australian Rules football at the highest level", Cricinfo, 28 May 2007]

==External links==
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* {{AFL Tables|ref=B/Bert_Hartkopf.html}}
* [http://www.boylesfootballphotos.net.au/Bert+Hartkopf Bert Hartkopf], at ''Boyles Football Photos''.
* {{AustralianFootball|ref=bert%2Bhartkopf/2480}}
* [https://collections.slsa.sa.gov.au/resource/PRG+280/1/35/300 Photograph: Victorian First XI (Adelaide 1922)], Collection of the [[State Library of South Australia]].
* [https://gallery.its.unimelb.edu.au/imu/imu.php?request=multimedia&irn=1175 Melbourne University Football Team, League, 1909], ''University of Melbourne Archives'': Hartkopf is second from the right, back row.
* [http://heritage.darebinlibraries.vic.gov.au/article/263 Albert Ernst Victor Hartkopf], ''Darebin Heritage''.

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[[Category:Australian Rules footballers: place kick exponents]]
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