James Dalis Davies (6 December 1926 – 15 August 2010) was an
Australian rules footballer who played for
Swan Districts in the
West Australian National Football League
The West Australian Football League (WAFL) is an Australian rules football league based in Perth, Western Australia. The league currently consists of ten teams, which play each other in a 20-round season usually lasting from March to September, ...
(WANFL) and
Carlton in the
Victorian Football League
The Victorian Football League (VFL) is an Australian rules football league in Australia serving as one of the second-tier regional semi-professional competitions which sit underneath the fully professional Australian Football League (AFL). It ...
(VFL).
Davies won a
Sandover Medal
The Sandover Medal is an Australian rules football award, given annually since 1921 to the fairest and best player in the West Australian Football League. The award was donated by Alfred Sandover M.B.E., a prominent Perth hardware merchant and b ...
with Swan Districts in 1944 and played with them until being recruited by Carlton for the 1949 season. After two seasons in the VFL he returned to Western Australia to play for
Claremont.
After retiring from playing football, he became involved in the administration of the game, culminating in becoming chairman of the WANFL in 1975. He was also the Director-General of the WA education department.
His son
Craig Davies represented Australia in
field hockey
Field hockey is a team sport structured in standard hockey format, in which each team plays with ten outfield players and a goalkeeper. Teams must drive a round hockey ball by hitting it with a hockey stick towards the rival team's shooting ...
.
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1926 births
2010 deaths
VFL/AFL players born outside Australia
Carlton Football Club players
Swan Districts Football Club players
Claremont Football Club players
West Perth Football Club players
Sandover Medal winners
Australian rules footballers from Western Australia
Welsh emigrants to Australia
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