Dick Logan (Australian footballer)

Albert Clarence Hill "Dick" Logan (29 June 1906 – 1 September 1996) was an Australian rules footballer who played with Hawthorn in the Victorian Football League (VFL).[1]

Dick Logan
Personal information
Full name Albert Clarence Hill Logan
Date of birth (1906-06-29)29 June 1906
Place of birth Carlton, Victoria
Date of death 1 September 1996(1996-09-01) (aged 90)
Place of death Oakleigh, Victoria
Original team(s) Box Hill
Height 165 cm (5 ft 5 in)
Weight 59 kg (130 lb)
Playing career1
Years Club Games (Goals)
1926–1930 Hawthorn 58 (35)
1 Playing statistics correct to the end of 1930.
Sources: AFL Tables, AustralianFootball.com

Early life

The son of George Henry Logan (1869–1938)[2] and Emma Harriett Logan, nee Fisher (1877–1946),[3] Albert Clarence Hill Logan was born at Carlton on 29 June 1906.[4]

His younger brother, Jim Logan was also a VFL footballer with Hawthorn.

Football

Logan joined Hawthorn from Box Hill early in the 1926 VFL season.[5] After being named best on ground in the reserves in his first week at the club[6] he made his debut against Richmond in Round 4 and again played well.[7] Despite being one of the shortest and lightest players to ever play senior football, Logan played in the majority of games over the next five years, mostly playing as a half-forward or on the wing, scoring 35 goals and picking up a solitary Brownlow Medal vote in 1929.

Logan continued to play for Hawthorn's reserve team until the end of the 1932 season and in 1932 he won the Gardiner Medal for the best and fairest player in the seconds competition, despite playing only ten games for the season.[8][9]

Later life

After his football career Logan worked as a boilermaker. In 1935 he married Lillian Elizabeth Joyner and they lived in the eastern suburbs of Melbourne until her death in 1957.[10]

Logan subsequently married Nancy Mary Sanders and they lived in the Oakleigh area until his death in September 1996. He was cremated at the Springvale Botanical Cemetery.[11]

References
  1. 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.
  2. "Family Notices". The Argus. No. 28764. Victoria, Australia. 31 October 1938. p. 10.
  3. "Family Notices". The Age. No. 28559. Victoria, Australia. 5 November 1946. p. 7.
  4. "Registry of Births, Deaths and Marriages Victoria". Government of Victoria.
  5. "Football Record". State Library of Victoria. 15 May 1926. p. 26.
  6. "LEAGUE SECOND EIGHTEENS". The Argus. Melbourne. 17 May 1926. p. 10.
  7. "RICHMOND UNDER THE WHIP". The Argus. Melbourne. 24 May 1926. p. 16.
  8. "LEAGUE SECONDS". The Argus. Melbourne. 23 September 1932. p. 10.
  9. "FOOTBALL". Gippsland Times. Victoria. 12 September 1932. p. 6.
  10. "Lillian Elizabeth Logan". Find a Grave.
  11. "Albert Charles Hill Logan". Southern Metropolitan Cemeteries Trust.
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