Arthur Edward Clarence Hodgson (8 January 1926 – 12 May 2003) was an
Australian rules footballer who played in the
Victorian Football League
The Victorian Football League (VFL) is an Australian rules football league in Australia serving as one of the second-tier regional semi-professional competitions which sit underneath the fully professional Australian Football League (AFL). It ...
(VFL) and
North Western Football Union
The North West Football Union (NWFU) was an Australian rules football competition which ran from 1910 to 1986. In its time it was one of the three main leagues in Tasmania, with the Tasmanian Football League and Northern Tasmanian Football Asso ...
(NWFU). Born in
Sydney but raised in
Queenstown, Tasmania
Queenstown is a town in the West Coast region of the island of Tasmania, Australia. It is in a valley on the western slopes of Mount Owen on the West Coast Range.
At the , Queenstown had a population of 1,808 people.
History
Queenstown's hi ...
, Hodgson was recruited by the
Carlton Football Club
The Carlton Football Club, nicknamed the Blues, is a professional Australian rules football club that competes in the Australian Football League (AFL), the sport's top professional competition.
Founded in 1864 in Carlton, an inner suburb of Me ...
in Victoria, playing 76 games and winning the
Robert Reynolds Trophy
The John Nicholls Medal (formerly the Robert Reynolds Trophy from 1934 to 2003) is an Australian rules football award given to the player(s) adjudged best and fairest for the Carlton Football Club for the season. The voting system as of the 201 ...
as club best and fairest in
1950
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. He returned to Tasmania in 1953 as captain-coach of the
Ulverstone Football Club
The Ulverstone Football Club, nicknamed the Robins, is an Australian rules football club based in Ulverstone, Tasmania, Australia. The club fields three teams in the North West Football League and also fields two junior teams in the AFL Tasma ...
, piloting the Robins to four premierships and one
state premiership (the first by a coastal team) in his seven-year tenure; individually, he won the Wander Medal as league best and fairest in 1955. Hodgson was named in the Tasmanian Team of the Century and was inducted into the Tasmanian Hall of Fame.
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References
External links
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Profile at Blueseum
1926 births
2003 deaths
Carlton Football Club players
John Nicholls Medal winners
Ulverstone Football Club players
Australian rules footballers from New South Wales
Australian rules footballers from Tasmania
Tasmanian Football Hall of Fame inductees
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