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Australian rules footballer and coach (1927-1990)
Australian rules footballer
Ron Clegg
Date of birth
17 November 1927 Date of death
23 August 1990(1990-08-23) (aged 62 ) Original team(s )
South Melbourne Under 19's Height
183 cm (6 ft 0 in ) Weight
84 kg (185 lb ) Years
Club
Games (Goals) 1945-1954, 1956-1960
South Melbourne
231 (156) Years
Club
Games (W–L–D) 1958–1959
South Melbourne
36 (15–21–0)
1 Playing statistics correct to the end of 1960.
Brownlow Medal 1949
Runner Up Brownlow Medal 1951
South Melbourne Best & Fairest 1948, 1949, 1951
South Melbourne captain 1953-1954, 1957-1960
South Melbourne/Sydney Swans Team of the Century
Victorian representative (15 games, 7 goals)
Sources: AFL Tables , AustralianFootball.com
Ron "Smokey" Clegg (17 November 1927 – 23 August 1990) was an Australian rules footballer in the (then) Victorian Football League .
Clegg was recruited from the South Melbourne Under 19's after winning the 1944 Melbourne Boys Football League's best and fairest award[1] and was best on ground in the 1944 grand final for South Melbourne.[2]
Richmond were very keen to secure Clegg's signature in 1944, before he settled on South Melbourne.[3] [4] [5]
Clegg debuted in 1945 and from early on South Melbourne knew they had a star in the making[6] and he played in South Melbourne's losing 1945 VFL grand final .[7]
By the time Clegg was 18 years old he had established himself as a gifted senior player in the VFL in 1946.[8]
A brilliant key position player at either centre half-forward or centre half-back, he was awarded the Brownlow Medal in 1949[9] while playing with the then South Melbourne Football Club and was runner up in the Brownlow in 1951.[10]
He won the club's Best and Fairest award three times, in 1948,[11] 1949[12] and 1951[13] and was runner in the 1953 award to follower, Jim Taylor [14] and again in 1954 to Eddie Lane .[15]
Clegg sought a clearance to New Norfolk in early 1951 and was refused a clearance,[16] then was later appointed as vice captain of South Melbourne FC in 1951.[17] Clegg won the 1951 London Stores Best Player Award in the VFL.[18]
In 1951, Clegg took an incredible 32 marks against Fitzroy at the Lakeside Oval.[19]
Clegg was appointed as club captain in 1953 and also lead the club in 1954 too.[20]
In 1955, Clegg was captain-coach of the North Wagga Football Club in the Albury & District Football League ,[21] winning the £50 - Border Mail Newspaper / Albury & DFL Footballer of the Year Award, before returning to South Melbourne in 1956.[22]
Clegg represented Victoria on 15 occasions in the key positions at either half forward or half back.
In 1961 and 1962, Clegg was captain-coach of the Brunswick Football Club .
Clegg played 42 first eleven games of Victorian Premier Cricket for South Melbourne between 1942 and 1947[23] before giving it away to concentrate on VFL football. Clegg made his debut in round one, 1942 as a 14 year old left hand bat.[24]
In 1996, Clegg was inducted into the Australian Football Hall of Fame .[25]
In 2003, Clegg was named at centre half back in South Melbourne's Team of the Century.[26]
References [ edit ]
^ "1944 - Richmond & South Junior" . Record. 27 May 1944. p. 1 . Retrieved 7 March 2021 .
^ "1944 - Ron Clegg a coming star" . Record. 12 August 1944. p. 1 . Retrieved 7 March 2021 .
^ "1944 - Promising boys impress officials" . Record. 19 August 1944. p. 1 . Retrieved 7 March 2021 .
^ "1945 - Promising Recruits" . The Age. 9 June 1945. p. 5 . Retrieved 7 March 2021 .
^ "1945 - Carlton Premiers" . Record. 6 October 1945. p. 3 . Retrieved 7 March 2021 .
^ "1946 - Key player at 18" . The Age. 20 June 1946. p. 8 . Retrieved 7 March 2021 .
^ "1949 - Ron Clegg's Year" . Record. 3 September 1949. p. 1 . Retrieved 7 March 2021 .
^ "1951 - Two-men contest from start" . The Argus. 6 September 1951. p. 9 . Retrieved 7 March 2021 .
^ "1948 - Ron Clegg, winner of best & fairest" . Record. 2 October 1948. p. 1 . Retrieved 8 March 2021 .
^ "1949 - Clegg, Donald & Austen best players" . The Argus. 2 September 1949. p. 18 . Retrieved 8 March 2021 .
^ "1951 - Ron Clegg wins £250" . Record. 8 September 1951. p. 1 . Retrieved 8 March 2021 .
^ "1953 - Taylor best at South" . The Argus. 4 September 1953. p. 16 . Retrieved 8 March 2021 .
^ "1954 - Eddie Lane wins award at South" . The Age. 10 September 1954. p. 10 . Retrieved 8 March 2021 .
^ "1951 - South emphatic over Ron Clegg" . Record. 10 March 1951. p. 3 . Retrieved 8 March 2021 .
^ "1951 - I won't play again" . The Herald. 20 April 1951. p. 1 . Retrieved 8 March 2021 .
^ "1951 - Two share football award" . The Age. 7 September 1951. p. 1 . Retrieved 8 March 2021 .
^ Richard Davis (11 September 2012). "Almanac Footy History: Clegg's Match" . The Football Almanac . Retrieved 8 March 2021 .
^ "1953 - He's skipper at South" . Weekly Times. 15 April 1953. p. 67 . Retrieved 8 March 2021 .
^ "1954 - Clegg's move to North Wagga" . Record. 22 December 1954. p. 2 . Retrieved 7 March 2021 .
^ "1956 - Clegg will go to South" . The Argus. 29 February 1956. p. 26 . Retrieved 7 March 2021 .
^ "Victorian Premier Cricket Register" . Victorian Cricket Association . Retrieved 7 March 2021 .
^ "1942 - The final call" . Record. 10 October 1942. p. 3 . Retrieved 7 March 2021 .
^ "1996 - AFL - Hall of Fame" . AFL. Retrieved 7 March 2021 .
^ "2003 - Team of the Century" . Sydney Swans Football Club. 2003. Retrieved 7 March 2021 .
Ross, John (1999). The Australian Football Hall of Fame . Australia: HarperCollinsPublishers. p. 50. ISBN 0-7322-6426-X .
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