Jack Sales

Jack Merton Sales (30 March 1925 – 29 September 2007) was an Australian rules footballer who played with Collingwood in the Victorian Football League (VFL).[1]

Jack Sales
Personal information
Full name Jack Merton Sales
Date of birth (1925-03-30)30 March 1925
Place of birth Brighton North, Victoria
Date of death 29 September 2007(2007-09-29) (aged 82)
Place of death Frankston, Victoria
Original team(s) Hampton Rovers
Height 173 cm (5 ft 8 in)
Weight 72 kg (159 lb)
Playing career1
Years Club Games (Goals)
1946–47 Sandringham (VFA) 40 (4)
1948–49 Collingwood 31 (2)
1 Playing statistics correct to the end of 1949.
Career highlights
  • 1946 VFA Premiership
Sources: AFL Tables, AustralianFootball.com

World War II

Sales enlisted in the Royal Australian Air Force three weeks after turning 18 and served until the end of World War II.[2]

Football

After demobilization, Sales joined Sandringham for the 1946 VFA season, and played on a wing in their premiership winning side that year. In 1947, Sales again appeared in a VFA Grand Final, this time on a losing side as Sandringham lost to Port Melbourne.

In 1948 Sandringham refused him a clearance to Collingwood, but he received a permit from the VFL and transferred to Collingwood.[3] He played a total of 31 games over his two seasons with Collingwood before moving to a playing-coach role with Hamilton Imperials.[4]

Death

Sales died at Frankston on 29 September 2007 and was cremated at Bunurong Memorial Park.[5]

Notes
  1. Holmesby, Russell; Main, Jim (2014). The Encyclopedia of AFL Footballers: every AFL/VFL player since 1897 (10th ed.). Seaford, Victoria: BAS Publishing. p. 781. ISBN 978-1-921496-32-5.
  2. "World War II Roll: SALES, Jack Merton". Department of Veterans Affairs.
  3. "BROKENSHIRE AND SALES RECEIVE PERMITS TO COLLINGWOOD". The Argus. No. 31, 706. Victoria, Australia. 15 April 1948. p. 12.
  4. "MAGPIES' SURPRISE CLEARANCE". The Herald. No. 22, 747. Victoria, Australia. 19 April 1950. p. 23.
  5. "Jack Merton Sales". Southern Metropolitan Cemeteries Trust.
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