John Parkinson (born 7 November 1944) is a former

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 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) and Collingwood 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). A rover, Parkinson made his debut for Claremont in 1963. He was a premiership player in 1964 and in 1967 won both 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 be ...

and best and fairest award. During his time at Claremont he also topped their goal kicking on three occasions. Parkinson joined VFL side Collingwood in 1971 and played three games that year before suffering a season ending broken collarbone. He finished his career at Claremont, rejoining them in 1972 and retiring at the end of the 1973 season having played 156 WANFL games.

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* * {{DEFAULTSORT:Parkinson, John 1944 births Collingwood Football Club players Claremont Football Club players Sandover Medal winners Living people Australian rules footballers from Western Australia