Jack Sambell

Jack Reginald Sambell (20 May 1908 – 22 August 1982)[1] was an Australian rules footballer who played with Melbourne in the Victorian Football League (VFL).[2]

Jack Sambell
Personal information
Full name Jack Reginald Sambell
Date of birth (1908-05-20)20 May 1908
Place of birth Violet Town, Victoria
Date of death 22 August 1982(1982-08-22) (aged 74)
Place of death Fitzroy, Victoria
Original team(s) Euroa, Glen Iris, Yallourn
Playing career1
Years Club Games (Goals)
1933–34 Melbourne 24 (6)
1 Playing statistics correct to the end of 1934.
Sources: AFL Tables, AustralianFootball.com

Family

The second son of Edgar Shadforth Tremayne Sambell (1880-1950),[3] and Barbara Katherine Sambell (1879-1963), née McPhee,[4] Jack Reginald Sambell was born at Violet Town, Victoria, on 20 May 1908.

He married Vera May Howard (1907-1941) in 1935; she died giving birth to a stillborn child on 22 January 1941.[5][6]

He married Mary Irene Healy (1905-2000) in 1942.

Football

Transferred from Glen Iris, in the Eastern Suburbs League, in May 1932,[7] he played in Yallourn's 1932 Gippsland Football League premiership,[8] and won their club best and fairest award,[9] before he was transferred to Melbourne by the Education Department in early 1933.[10][11][12]

Death

He died at Fitzroy, Victoria on 22 August 1982.[13]

Notes
  1. "Jack Sambell - Player Bio". Australian Football. Retrieved 30 December 2014.
  2. Holmesby, Russell; Main, Jim (2009). The Encyclopedia of AFL Footballers: every AFL/VFL player since 1897 (8th ed.). Seaford, Victoria: BAS Publishing. p. 737. ISBN 978-1-921496-00-4.
  3. Deaths: Sambell, The Herald, (Friday, 23 June 1950), p.8.
  4. Deaths: Sambell, The Age, (Tuesday, 4 June 1963), p.14.
  5. Deaths: Sambell, The Age, (Thursday, 23 January 1941), p.1.
  6. In Memoriam: Sambell, The Argus, (Thursday, 22 January 1942), p.2.
  7. Eastern Suburbs League, The Age, (Thursday, 12 May 1932), p.3.
  8. "1932 - The Game". Trove. Gippsland Times (Vic). 19 September 1932. p. 6. Retrieved 31 January 2021.
  9. "1932 - Yallourn football trophies". Trove. Weekly Times. 5 November 1932. p. 62. Retrieved 31 January 2021.
  10. Yallourn News: News and Notes, Morwell Advertiser and Gazette, (Thursday, 16 February 1933), p.12.
  11. "1933 - Yallourn losing Sambell". Trove. Weekly Times (Melbourne, Vic). 25 February 1933. p. 58. Retrieved 31 January 2021.
  12. As of 1 January 1934 he was transferred to teach at Camberwell Central School No 888: Teachers' Transfers: To Class V (Males), The Argus, (Thursday, 16 November 1933), p.11.
  13. Deaths: Sambell, The Age, (Monday, 23 August 1982), p.18.

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