Clarence Melville Hindson (6 October 1907 – 12 February 2002) 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 St Kilda in the

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(VFL).AFL Tables: Clarrie Hindson
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Family

The son of Charles Melville Hindson (1882-1947), and Mary Winifred Hindson (1887-1974), née McMahon, Clarence Melville Hindson was born at Wychitella, Victoria on 6 October 1907. His brother, Cyril James Hindson (1912-), played in 106 games for the

Brighton Football Club Brighton Football Club was an Australian rules football club which played in the Victorian Football Association (VFA). The club was based in the Melbourne suburb of Brighton, and was nicknamed the Penguins. After suffering financial hardship t ...

in the VFA from 1935-1940. He married Dulcie May Barker (1914-1982) in 1936.

Cricket

He played Sub-District cricket with the Brighton Cricket Club in the 1930-31 season.

Football

He was recruited from the Brighton Vale Football Club in the C-Section of the Metropolitan Amateur Football Association (MAFA). Identified as "unallotted", Hindson was granted a permit to play with St Kilda on 23 April 1930.

St Kilda (VFL)

Hindson was captain of St Kilda for part of the

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, after the playing coach broke his shoulder. He didn't captain the club the following year but was in charge for the entire 1935 season.

27 May 1933

In his last senior match of St Kilda, Hindson was one of those injured in the infamous and brutal match against North Melbourne, at the Junction Oval, on 27 May 1933 which was stopped at one stage because a wild brawl instigated by the North Melbourne players had erupted in the centre in which (at that time winless in 1933) St Kilda, with only 15 men still on the field, defeated North Melbourne 13.19 (97) to 11.17 (83).The Crest: Our Badge of Honour, "saints.com.au'', 8 January 2020.
/ref> Of the nineteen St Kilda men that participated (i.e, including the 19th man Tom Fogarty), eleven were injured: Jack Anderson (leg), Stewart Anderson (knocked out),

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(concussion; twice),

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(calf), Matt Cave (eye gash),

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(broken thumb),

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(ankle), Clarrie Hindson (broken ankle), Jack Holden (ankle),

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(broken ribs), and

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(concussion). Despite their injuries, seven remained on the field: Jack Anderson, Stewart Anderson, Bourne, Bill Downie, George, Holden, and Roberts. The St Kilda President, Gallipoli veteran and naval war hero Commander Fred Arlington-Burke, who described St Kilda's 15-man victory as the greatest moral victory in the club's history, commissioned a silver "Badge of Courage" bearing the inscription "St KILDA DEFEATED Nth MELBOURNE WITH 15 MEN MAY 27th 1933" which was awarded to each of the players that took part in the match.

South Bendigo (BFL)

After retiring from the VFL, Hindson was captain-coach of the South Bendigo in the

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for three seasons: 1937 to 1939.

Military service

He would later serve with the Australian Army in

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Death

He died at

Tewantin, Queensland Tewantin ( ) is a rural town and locality in the Shire of Noosa, Queensland, Australia. In the , Tewantin had a population of 10,920 people. Tewantin was the original settlement in the Noosa region and is one of its three major centres today. Hi ...

on 12 February 2002.Legacy Remembers.

Notes

References

*
Second World War Service Record Roll: Signalman Clarence Melville Hindson (V211909), ''National Archives of Australia''.

Getting their Muscles into Condition (photograph), ''The (Melbourne) Herald'', (Wednesday, 8 April 1931), p.16.
* * Ross, J. (ed), ''100 Years of Australian Football 1897–1996: The Complete Story of the AFL, All the Big Stories, All the Great Pictures, All the Champions, Every AFL Season Reported'', Viking, (Ringwood), 1996.

External links

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Clarence Melville "Clarrie" Hindson, at ''Find a Grave''.

Clarence Hindson Obituary, at ''Legacy Remembers''.
1907 births 2002 deaths Australian rules footballers from Victoria (state) St Kilda Football Club players South Bendigo Football Club players Australian Army personnel of World War II Australian Army soldiers {{AFL-bio-1907-stub