Clem Fisher

Thomas Clement Fisher (3 February 1908 – 13 April 1988) was an Australian rules footballer who played with South Melbourne and St Kilda in the Victorian Football League (VFL).[1]

Clem Fisher
Personal information
Full name Thomas Clement Fisher
Date of birth (1908-02-03)3 February 1908
Place of birth South Melbourne, Victoria
Date of death 13 April 1988(1988-04-13) (aged 80)
Place of death Mount Waverley, Victoria
Playing career1
Years Club Games (Goals)
1929–30 Port Melbourne (VFA) 28 (10)
1931–32 South Melbourne (VFL) 14 (4)
1932 St Kilda (VFL) 09 (4)
Total 51 (18)
1 Playing statistics correct to the end of 1932.
Sources: AFL Tables, AustralianFootball.com

Family

The son of Thomas Fisher (1885-1964),[2] and May Fisher (1887-1967), née Mardell,[3] Thomas Clement Fisher was born at South Melbourne, Victoria on 3 February 1908.

He was the older brother of St Kilda footballer Ron Fisher.[4]

He married Thelma Tudor Riley (1911-2008), at Albert Park, Victoria, on 29 November 1934.[5]

Football

In March 1929, "C. Fisher, 6 ft., 12 st, 7 lbs. Follower and half-back South Melbourne church team" was one of those training with South Melbourne in the VFL pre-season.[6]

Port Melbourne (VFA)

Identified as "T. Fisher" he played 28 games, and scored 10 goals for Port Melbourne in the Victorian Football Association (VFA) in 1929 and 1930.[7]

South Melbourne (VFL)

Identified as "C. Fisher" he made South Melbourne's final training list in 1931,[8] and played his first senior game against St Kilda, at the Lake Oval, on 23 May 1931.

St Kilda (VFL)

In June 1932, Port Melbourne approached South Melbourne for a clearance "for Fisher, a former Port player, but [were told that] he had signed a clearance form to St. Kilda".[9] He was granted a clearance from South Melbourne to St Kilda on 22 June 1932.[10]

Although he appeared on St Kilda's final senior list in 1933,[11] he played with the Second XVIII for the entire season, including the Grand Final which St Kilda lost to Melbourne by a single point on 28 September 1933,[12][13] and did not play another VFL senior match.

In 1934, he applied for a clearance to Hawthorn, on the grounds that "it [was] easier for him to train at Hawthorn than [at] St. Kilda".[14]

Optometrist

A Fellow of the Victorian Optical Association, and practising as an "Ophthalmic Optician" in Middle Park at least as early as 1930,[15] Fisher was registered (on 13 August 1936) as soon as registration was available under the Victorian Opticians Registration Act 1935.[16]

Death

He died at his home in Mount Waverley, Victoria on 13 April 1988.[17]

Notes
  1. Holmesby & Main (2014), p.278.
  2. Deaths: Fisher, The Age, (Wednesday, 25 November 1964), p.29.
  3. Deaths: Fisher, The Age, (Monday, 17 July 1967), p.13.
  4. "St Kilda Men Transfer". The Age. Victoria, Australia. 2 April 1934. p. 2.
  5. Photograph, at Weddings, Table Talk, (Thursday, 27 December 1934), p.43.
  6. Football, The (Emerald Hill) Record, (Saturday, 9 March 1929), p.1.
  7. Weekly Times Football Series — Port Melbourne Association Team, 1929, The Weekly Times Magazine Section, (Saturday, 31 August 1929), p.7.
  8. Football, The Argus, (Wednesday, 29 April 1931), p.10.
  9. Football: Association: Club Notes, The Argus, Wednesday, 22 June 1932), p.16.
  10. Football: League Permits, The Argus, (Thursday, 23 June 1932), p.12.
  11. Football: St. Kilda List, The Age, (Wednesday, 26 April 1933), p.5.
  12. League Second Eighteens, The Age, (Friday, 29 September 1933), p.11.
  13. On the day, he played as the resting forward-pocket ruckman, with his brother, Roy, in the first ruck: see Finals in Junior Football, The Herald, (Thursday, 28 September 1933), p.4.
  14. St. Kilda Men Transfer, The Age, (Monday, 2 April 1934), p.3.
  15. Advertising, The (Emerald Hill) Record, (Saturday, 22 November 1930), p.3.
  16. Optometrists Registration Board of Victoria: List of Certified Optometrists as at 22 March 1984, Victorian Government Gazette, No.44, (Friday, 6 April 1984 List of Certified p.1072.
  17. Deaths: Fisher, The Age, (Friday, 15 April 1988), p.21.

References
  • 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.
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