John Charles Arthur Hyde (11 April 1930 – 26 March 2020) was an

Australian rules football 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 ...

er 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) for the

Geelong Football Club The Geelong Football Club, nicknamed the Cats, is a professional Australian rules football club based in Geelong, Victoria, Australia. The club competes in the Australian Football League (AFL), the sport's premier competition, and are the 2022 ...

. Originally from

Portarlington, Victoria Portarlington is a historic coastal township located on the Bellarine Peninsula, 28 km from the city of Geelong, in the state of Victoria (Australia), Victoria, Australia. It has a diverse population which includes a wide range of ethnic ba ...

, Hyde won Geelong's best and fairest award in

1950 Events January * January 1 – The International Police Association (IPA) – the largest police organization in the world – is formed. * January 5 – 1950 Sverdlovsk plane crash, Sverdlovsk plane crash: ''Aeroflot'' Lisunov Li-2 cr ...

before playing in their back-to-back premierships in 1951 and 1952. Hyde left Victoria after the

1954 VFL season The 1954 VFL season was the 58th season of the Victorian Football League (1897–1989), Victorian Football League (VFL), the highest level senior Australian rules football competition in Victoria. The season featured twelve clubs, ran from 17 A ...

to join Claremont 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) as captain-coach. Hyde died of cancer on 26 March 2020. His son, John Norman Hyde, was a member of the

Western Australian Legislative Assembly The Western Australian Legislative Assembly, or lower house, is one of the two chambers of the Parliament of Western Australia, an Australian state. The Parliament sits in Parliament House in the Western Australian capital, Perth. The Legisla ...

from 2001 to 2013.

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Geelong Football Club players Geelong Football Club Premiership players Carji Greeves Medal winners Australian rules footballers from Victoria (Australia) Claremont Football Club players Claremont Football Club coaches 1930 births 2020 deaths Two-time VFL/AFL Premiership players {{AFL-bio-1930s-stub