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Clive Yewers

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Clive Yewers
Personal information
Full name Clive Lawson Yewers
Date of birth (1922-10-16)16 October 1922
Place of birth Footscray, Victoria
Date of death 24 August 1975(1975-08-24) (aged 52)
Place of death Hastings, Victoria
Original team(s) West Footscray
Height 183 cm (6 ft 0 in)
Weight 74 kg (163 lb)
Playing career1
Years Club Games (Goals)
1947–48 Footscray 11 (4)
1 Playing statistics correct to the end of 1948.
Sources: AFL Tables, AustralianFootball.com

Clive Lawson Yewers (16 October 1922 – 24 August 1975) was an Australian rules footballer who played with Footscray in the Victorian Football League (VFL).[1]

Family

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The son of Harley Le Strange Yewers (1891–1975),[2] and Frances Ellen Yewers (1892–1954), née Carroll,[3] Clive Lawson Yewers was born at Footscray, Victoria on 16 October 1922.

He married Eva Gwendoline Graham in 1947.

Military service

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He served in the Second AIF, having enlisted on 30 December 1942.

Football

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Footscray (VFL)

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Yewers made his debut for the Footscray First XVIII in the match against South Melbourne, at the Lake Oval, on 28 June 1947. Selected as 20th man,[4] he replaced the injured Arthur Olliver in the second half, and scored a goal with his first kick in VFL football.[5]

Yarraville (VFA)

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Cleared from Footscray in 1949,[6] he played in six senior games in the 1949 season.

Death

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He died at Hastings Hospital on 24 August 1975.[7]

See also

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Notes

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References

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  • Holmesby, Russell; Main, Jim (2014). The Encyclopedia of AFL Footballers: every AFL/VFL player since 1897 (10th ed.). Seaford, Victoria: BAS Publishing. ISBN 978-1-921496-32-5.
  • World War Two Nominal Roll: Private Clive Lawson Yewers (VX131298/V175350), Department of Veterans' Affairs.
  • B883, VX131298: World War Two Service Record: Private Clive Lawson Yewers (VX131298), National Archives of Australia.
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