Jack Reginald Sambell (20 May 1908 – 22 August 1982) was an
Australian rules football
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er who played with
Melbourne
Melbourne ( ; Boonwurrung/Woiwurrung: ''Narrm'' or ''Naarm'') is the capital and most populous city of the Australian state of Victoria, and the second-most populous city in both Australia and Oceania. Its name generally refers to a met ...
in the
Victorian Football League
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(VFL).
Family
The second son of Edgar Shadforth Tremayne Sambell (1880-1950), and Barbara Katherine Sambell (1879-1963), née McPhee, Jack Reginald Sambell was born at
Violet Town
Violet Town is a town in northeastern Victoria, Australia. The town is in the Shire of Strathbogie local government area, northeast of the state capital, Melbourne on the Hume Highway. At the , Violet Town and district (Honeysuckle Ward) had a ...
, Victoria, on 20 May 1908.
He married Vera May Howard (1907-1941) in 1935; she died giving birth to a stillborn child on 22 January 1941.
He married Mary Irene Healy (1905-2000) in 1942.
Football
Transferred from Glen Iris, in the Eastern Suburbs League, in May 1932, he played in
Yallourn
Yallourn, Victoria was a company town in Victoria (Australia), Victoria, Australia built between the 1920s and 1950s to house employees of the State Electricity Commission of Victoria, who operated the nearby Yallourn Power Station, Victoria, Yal ...
's 1932 Gippsland Football League premiership, and won their club best and fairest award, before he was transferred to Melbourne by the Education Department in early 1933.
Death
He died at
Fitzroy, Victoria
Fitzroy is an inner-city suburb in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia, north-east of Melbourne's Central Business District, located within the City of Yarra local government area. Fitzroy recorded a population of 10,431 at the 2021 census.
Pl ...
on 22 August 1982.
Deaths: Sambell, ''The Age'', (Monday, 23 August 1982), p.18.
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Notes
References
Technical Schools: Examination Results: Trained Secondary Teachers' Certificate: Melbourne Teachers' College, ''The Argus'', (Tuesday, 17 January 1928), p.11.
Football Appeal: Alleged Ineligibility: Euroa Club Protest Dismissed by Council: Match Awarded to Longwood, ''The Shepparton Advertiser'', (Monday, 13 October 1930), p.3.
League Permits: Many Players Transfer, ''The Age'', (Thursday, 9 April 1936), p.14.
World War Two: Service Record (Militia): Jack Reginald Sambell (214673), ''National Archives of Australia''.
External links
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Jack Sambell's profile
at ''Demonwiki''.
Jack Sambell, at ''The VFA Project''.
1908 births
Australian rules footballers from Victoria (state)
Melbourne Football Club players
1982 deaths
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