Cedric John Hovey (12 July 1918 – 19 February 2014) was an

Australian rules football Australian football, also called Australian rules football or Aussie rules, or more simply football or footy, is a contact sport played between two teams of 18 players on an oval field, often a modified cricket ground. Points are scored by k ...

er who played with

Geelong Geelong ( ) (Wathawurrung: ''Djilang''/''Djalang'') is a port city in the southeastern Australian state of Victoria, located at the eastern end of Corio Bay (the smaller western portion of Port Phillip Bay) and the left bank of Barwon River, ...

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).

Career

Hovey, who came from Modewarre, was runner-up in the Geelong seconds

best and fairest In Australian sport, the best and fairest award recognises the player(s) adjudged to have had the best performance in a game or over a season for a given sporting club or competition. The awards are sometimes dependent on not receiving a suspensi ...

award for the 1944 season. Mostly as a centreman, Hovey made 10 appearances with the senior side in the

1945 VFL season The 1945 VFL season was the 49th season of the Victorian Football League (VFL), the highest level senior Australian rules football competition in Victoria. The season featured twelve clubs, ran from 21 April until 29 September, and comprised a ...

, debuting at the age of 26. He didn't play VFL football in 1946 and instead captained the Geelong seconds. In 1947 he was cleared to

Geelong West Geelong West is a commercial and residential suburb of Geelong, Victoria, Australia. When Geelong was founded, the area was known as Kildare but its name was changed to Geelong West in 1875. The main street is Pakington Street. At the 2016 c ...

, in the Ballarat Football League. At Geelong West, Hovey was a best and fairest winner and captain-coached the club in 1948.

Personal life

Hovey was one of four brothers to play football for Geelong. Most successful of the four was

Ron Hovey Ronald Clive Hovey (25 August 1932 – 6 January 2015) was an Australian rules footballer who played with Geelong in the Victorian Football League (VFL). Career Hovey played in the 1947 Shepparton Boys Football Club's Central Goulburn Valley ...

, who was a member of Geelong's 1951 and 1952 premiership teams. Another, Jim, played 41 league games in the late 1940s. The eldest of the four, Bernard "Bern" Hovey, played for the Geelong seconds, before his death in an RAAF air crash in 1943. On 19 February 2014, Hovey died at his home in Geelong, aged 95. He was the oldest surviving Geelong player at the time of his death.

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Hovey, Ced 1918 births Australian rules footballers from Victoria (state) Geelong Football Club players Geelong West Football Club players Geelong West Football Club coaches 2014 deaths