Bert Lawrence (footballer)
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| Personal information | |||
| Full name | Robert Gribbon Lawrence | ||
| Date of birth | 7 January 1902 | ||
| Place of birth | South Melbourne, Victoria | ||
| Date of death | 1 August 1975 (aged 73) | ||
| Place of death | Adelaide, South Australia | ||
| Original team(s) | North United | ||
| Playing career1 | |||
| Years | Club | Games (Goals) | |
| 1921, 1925 | South Melbourne | 7 (8) | |
| 1926 | Melbourne | 3 (0) | |
| Total | 10 (8) | ||
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1 Playing statistics correct to the end of 1926. | |||
| Sources: AFL Tables, AustralianFootball.com | |||
Robert Gribbon Lawrence (7 January 1902 – 1 August 1975) was an Australian rules footballer who played for the South Melbourne Football Club and Melbourne Football Club in the Victorian Football League (VFL).[1]
Family[edit]
The son of William Henry Lawrence (1863-1943),[2] and Alice Mary Lawrence (1861-1937), née Sutcliffe,[3] Robert Gribbon Lawrence was born at South Melbourne, Victoria on 7 January 1902.[4]
He married Lucy Evelyn Butlin on 24 March 1928.[5] One of their children, Robert John Lawrence, was South Australia's Rhodes Scholar in 1953.[6][7]
Football[edit]
South Melbourne (VFL)[edit]
In May 1921 he was grant a permit from "Sydney to South Melbourne".[8]
Melbourne (VFL)[edit]
He was cleared from South Melbourne to Melbourne on 28 April 1926.[9]
South Gambier (SEFA)[edit]
He was cleared from Melbourne to "South Australia" on 20 April 1927,[10] and on 25 April 1927 was elected captain of the South Gambier Football Club in the South Eastern Football Association. The team went on to win the 1927 Premiership.[11] He played with the club for eight seasons: 1927 to 1934.
Transferred to Adelaide with his employment -- he had worked for eight years as a teller at the Mount Gambier Branch of the Commonwealth Bank[12] -- he left the South Gambier club at the end of the 1934 season.[13]
Notes[edit]
- ^ Holmesby & Main (2009), p.475.
- ^ Deaths: Lawrence, The Age, (Friday, 12 February 1943), p.5.
- ^ Deaths: Lawrence, The Argus, (Monday, 30 August 1937), p.1.
- ^ Births: Lawrence, The Argus, (Friday, 10 January 1902), p.1.
- ^ Orange Blossom: Lawrence—Butlin, The (Emerald Hill) Record, (Saturday, 14 April 1928), p.3.
- ^ SA's 1953 Rhodes Scholar, The (Adelaide) News, (Wednesday, 17 December 1952), p.1.
- ^ Rhodes Scholar was Born in Mount Gambier, The Border Watch, (Saturday, 20 December 1952), p.1.
- ^ Football: Permits Granted, The Argus, (Saturday, 7 May 1921), p.20.
- ^ Football: Permit Applications, The Argus, (Thursday, 29 April 1926), p.18.
- ^ Football: League Permits, The Argus, (Thursday, 21 April 1927), p.6.
- ^ South win Premiership in Third Quarter of Splendid Game: Decisive Victory, The Border Watch, (Saturday, 1 October 1927), p.1.
- ^ Personal, The Adelaide) Chronicle, (Thursday, 17 January 1935), p.13.
- ^ Valedictory: Mr. R. G. Lawrence, The Border Watch, (Thursday, 3 January 1935), p.3.
References[edit]
- Holmesby, Russell; Main, Jim (2009). The Encyclopedia of AFL Footballers: every AFL/VFL player since 1897 (8th ed.). Seaford, Victoria: BAS Publishing. ISBN 978-1-921496-00-4.
External links[edit]
- Bert Lawrence's playing statistics from AFL Tables
- Bert Lawrence at AustralianFootball.com
- Bert Lawrence, at Demonwiki.
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