Early Life/career
Cazaly was born in Albert Park, a suburb of Melbourne, on 13 January 1893. He was the tenth child of English-born James Cazaly and his wife Elizabeth Jemima (née McNee), a midwife and herbalist from Scotland.
Cazaly learnt his football at the local state school, quickly becoming its first-choice ruckman and tried out for VFL side Carlton Football Club in 1910 but quit the club when he injured a shoulder in a reserves match but could not get the Carlton medical staff to treat it. Cazaly crossed to fellow VFL side St Kilda and made his senior debut in 1911 during a players' strike, when many of St Kilda's regular senior players refused to play as a result of a dispute with the club's committee over dressing rooms. He played 99 matches with St Kilda.
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