Harry Clarke (15 September 1905 – 21 February 1989) was a leading
Australian rules football
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er of the 1920s and 1930s who played with
South Melbourne
South Melbourne is an inner suburb in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia, 3 km south of Melbourne's Central Business District, located within the City of Port Phillip local government area. South Melbourne recorded a population of 11,548 at t ...
in the
Victorian Football League
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(VFL).
The son of the curator at the
Middle Park Lawn bowls
Bowls, also known as lawn bowls or lawn bowling, is a sport in which the objective is to roll biased balls so that they stop close to a smaller ball called a "jack" or "kitty". It is played on a bowling green, which may be flat (for "flat-gre ...
club,
[ Main, J. "Swan Lake", ''AFL Grand Final Record'', 2005, 24
September 2005, p. 52.] Clarke was a wingman and won the
Best and Fairest award for South Melbourne in their premiership season of
1933.
In addition to playing 147 games for South Melbourne Clarke also appeared 11 times for Victoria in interstate football.
In
2003
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Clarke was named in the Swan's official 'Team of the Century'.
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1905 births
Australian rules footballers from Victoria (Australia)
Sydney Swans players
Sydney Swans Premiership players
Bob Skilton Medal winners
1989 deaths
One-time VFL/AFL Premiership players
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