Hugh Jacob Torney (14 November 1909 – 10 February 2000) was an
Australian rules
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 ...
footballer who played with
Essendon Essendon may refer to:
Australia
*Electoral district of Essendon
*Electoral district of Essendon and Flemington
*Essendon, Victoria
**Essendon railway station
**Essendon Airport
*Essendon Football Club in the Australian Football League
United King ...
in the
Victorian Football League (VFL), and with
Williamstown in the
Victorian Football Association (VFA).
Family
The son of John Torney and Catherine Torney, née Brown, Torney was born on 14 November 1909.
He married Joyce Eudora Davis (1916-2005) in 1941; they had three daughters, Pamela, Lorraine, and Beverley.
Football
South Melbourne (VFL)
Along with two of his
Patchewollock team-mates, H. "Bub" Jamieson, and Reg Bryans, Torney tried out with South Melbourne in the 1933 pre-season. None of the three made South Melbourne's final list.
Essendon (VFL)
A ruckman, Torney kicked with his left foot and formed a lethal combination during his career with rover
Dick Reynolds
Richard Sylvannus Reynolds (20 June 1915 – 2 September 2002) was an Australian rules footballer who played for the Essendon Football Club in the Victorian Football League (VFL).
Reynolds is one of four footballers to have won three Brownl ...
.
He had his finest season in 1940, winning the Essendon
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 and finishing second in the
Brownlow Medal
The Charles Brownlow Trophy, better known as the Brownlow Medal (and informally as "Charlie"), is awarded to the " best and fairest" player in the Australian Football League (AFL) during the home-and-away season, as determined by votes cast by ...
count. His 24 Brownlow votes were at the time the most ever by a player not to win the medal. Torney was a premiership player in 1942 and also represented
Victoria
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* Victoria (Australia), a state of the Commonwealth of Australia
* Victoria, British Columbia, provincial capital of British Columbia, Canada
* Victoria (mythology), Roman goddess of Victory
* Victoria, Seychelle ...
in 1937, 1939, and 1941.
He retired at the end of the 1943 season.
Willamstown (VFA)
He came out of retirement in 1945,
League Men With Association Clubs, ''The Argus'', (Thursday, 15 March 1945), p.13.
/ref> and played one season with the VFA team Williamstown. He played 18 games and kicked 2 goals.
Footnotes
References
* Maplestone, M., ''Flying Higher: History of the Essendon Football Club 1872–1996'', Essendon Football Club, (Melbourne), 1996.
* 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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Profile at Essendonfc.com
Hugh Torney, ''Boyles Football Photos''.
1909 births
2000 deaths
Australian rules footballers from Victoria (Australia)
Essendon Football Club players
Essendon Football Club Premiership players
Williamstown Football Club players
Crichton Medal winners
One-time VFL/AFL Premiership players
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