1921 - 1963

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Re: 1921 - 1963

Postby mal » Mon Jul 06, 2020 2:42 pm

1935
A quite bizarre year for the Norwood Football club

NW finished 3rd in the minor round , beaten by ST in the 1st semi final

Jack Sexton started off as the player coach
Jack Sexton won the 1931 Magarey Medal playing for WA, also played for Fitzroy in the VFL
NW started well, but Jack Sexton got crook and had to be replaced as coach
Jack Sexton later in the season died of illness , having only played 6 games for NW
NW started well under Jack Sexton, the form quite understandably became patchy from that point

NW ended up incredibly having a total 4 coaches for the season
3 members on the 1935 committee ended up coaching at various stages
They were Eric Johnson a 4 goal hero in NWs 1929 G/F win over PA
Syd Ackland who was coaching Prince Alfred College , then took over as NW coach
The other coach during the season was Thomas Woodroofe who excelled as a player winning the B/F award for the season

I would strongly doubt that any club in any australian affiliated league competitions have had 4 individual lead coaches

1909 was Norwoods first coach, with an appropriate surname , John Woods
From 1909 to 1944 before Jack Oatey became NWs coach , the club had 19 different coaches
Triple NW Magarey medallist , Walter Wacca Scott had the longest tenure 1926-1932

Eric Tassie was NWs treasurer in 1935
He died in 1936 , aged 48 during an operation
The Tassie Medal , an Interstate football award , was named after him, a year after his death
In 1969 the high flying brilliant mark and left footer Graham Molloy won the Tassie Medal , the only NW footballer to do so
Graham Molloy sired Glenn who inherited his dads marking ability , and Robert who was an outstanding under age player at the club

One other notable in 1935 was Hubert Tom Warhurst
Warhurst won the best junior award in his debut season , debuting in round 6 , playing 12 seasons matches from that point
I best remember Warhurst as a great football commentator on TV and radio
He is the father of star NW defender and star shoe salesman Tom Warhurst and Professor John Warhurst
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Re: 1921 - 1963

Postby mal » Thu Jul 16, 2020 11:40 pm

ROUND 12
1940
Prospect Oval

Ken Farmer......4-0...9-2...14-3...23-6 [144]
West Torrens...2-3...4-6...6-14...8-14 [62]

Ken Farmer was a convincing 82 point winner over West Torrens
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Re: 1921 - 1963

Postby mal » Fri Jul 17, 2020 12:19 am

Press survey done in 1930
Survey was conducted as it was said that South Australian football was on a downturn

89740 opinions were gathered about what agendas were of concern

824 the standard of players
11075 standard of umpiring
19321 financial reasons
53669 tinkering with the rules
4851 any other reason

59.8% of participators were saying they were not happy with changing the rules
90 years later, this is somewhat surprising to me , considering who won the 1929 Grand Final
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