John Carlton Gardiner (8 May 1881 – 3 April 1967) was an

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er who played for

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and

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in the

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(VFL). He then became a successful coach in the

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Family

The son of John Gardiner, and Anna Gardiner, née Sidley, John Carlton Gardiner was born on 8 May 1881. Jack Gardiner was the third of four children in the family, with two older sisters and a younger brother,

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. He married Florence Bucirde (1883–1946), in Hobart, on 20 November 1911. Jack Gardiner died in Hobart in 1967, and is buried at

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Football

Gardiner came from a football playing family with his father, John, a Carlton player during the 1870s.

, his younger brother, also played at both Melbourne and Carlton. His VFL career, spent mostly as a rover, began with two seasons at his father's club before switching to Melbourne in 1903. He kicked 24 goals in 1904 and was a regular in the Melbourne side until 1907. The rover spent the 1908 season in Tasmania, as an umpire and coach of the TFL representative team. He returned to the mainland to coach Tasmania at the

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and stopped umpiring after that year. Cananore Football Team (1923)

He resumed his playing career in 1909 when he joined Cananore as captain. His tenure included four TFL premierships, including three in a row from 1909 to 1911. Gardiner also captained the state at the

1911 Adelaide Carnival The 1911 Adelaide Carnival was the second edition of the Australasian Football Carnival, an Australian rules football interstate competition. It took place from 2 to 12 August at Adelaide Oval. A crowd of 20,000 witnessed South Australia convin ...

. Appointed Cananore captain-coach following the war, he steered them to more premierships in 1921 and 1922. His final port of call was

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, with which he spent the 1924 and 1925 seasons at before retiring. In 2005, Gardiner was one of the inaugural inductees into the

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. His son, Jack Jr, also played football and represented Tasmania as the state wicket-keeper in cricket.

Footnotes

References

* Holmesby, Russell and Main, Jim (2007). ''The Encyclopedia of AFL Footballers''. 7th ed. Melbourne: Bas Publishing.
Jack Gardiner: His Splendid Football Career: A Brief Sketch, ''The Mercury'', (Friday, 24 August 1923), p.10.

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