James Sinclair Dickson (2 March 1884 – 3 January 1961) was an Australian rules footballer for the
Port Adelaide Football Club
Port Adelaide Football Club is a professional Australian rules football club based in Alberton, South Australia, Alberton, South Australia. The club's senior men's team plays in the Australian Football League (AFL), where they are nicknamed ...
.
Football
Sinclair Dickson was a member of three Port Adelaide premiership teams in the
South Australian Football League
The South Australian National Football League, or SANFL ( or ''S-A-N-F-L''), is an Australian rules football league based in the Australian state of South Australia. It is also the state's governing body for the sport.
Originally formed as the ...
. He also won the
Port Adelaide best and fairest in consecutive years in 1908 and 1909. Sinclair Dickson was runner up for the 1909
Magarey Medal
The Magarey Medal is an Australian rules football honour awarded annually since 1898 to the fairest and most brilliant player in the South Australian National Football League (SANFL), as judged by field umpires. The award was created by Willia ...
. Dickson represented
South Australia
South Australia (commonly abbreviated as SA) is a state in the southern central part of Australia. It covers some of the most arid parts of the country. With a total land area of , it is the fourth-largest of Australia's states and territories ...
on seven occasions between 1908 and 1910.
Sinclair Dickson served as the treasurer of the Port Adelaide Football Club during the 1920s. In 1924 Sinclair Dickson took part in a charity match that pitted retired champions against a league eighteen of mostly current state carnival players with the former side winning. In 1928 Sinclair Dickson was made a life member of the Port Adelaide Football Club.
Outside football
In the 1930s Sinclair Dickson was the president of the Alberton Bowling Club.
Family
The son of William Dickson, and Helen Dickson, née Sinclair, James Sinclair Dickson was born at
Goolwa, South Australia
Goolwa is a historic river port on the Murray River near the Murray Mouth in South Australia, and joined by a bridge to Hindmarsh Island. The name "Goolwa" means "elbow" in Ngarrindjeri, the local Aboriginal language, and the area was known as ...
on 2 March 1884.
He married Muriel Mary Playfair (-1928) on 11 October 1910.
Marriages: Dickson—Playfair, ''The (Adelaide) Register'', (Monday, 7 November 1910), p.4
Deaths: Dickson, ''The (Adelaide) Register'', (Thursday, 1 March 1928), p.8.
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See also
* 1908 Melbourne Carnival
The 1908 Melbourne Carnival was the inaugural Australian National Football Carnival, an Australian rules football interstate competition, held in Melbourne in August 1908. It was known at the time as the Jubilee Australasian Football Carnival b ...
Footnotes
References
*
Jubilee of Australian Football: The Inter-State Teams: The South Australian Team, ''The Leader'', (Saturday, 29 August 1908), p.29.
League Footballers: Port Adelaide, ''The (Adelaide) Observer'', (Saturday, 29 May 1909), p.27.
Interstate Football: Victoria v. South Australia: South Australian Team, ''The (Adelaide) Chronicle'', (Saturday, 26 June 1909), p.32.
Interstate Football on the Adelaide Oval: Victoria v. South Australia: South Australian Team, ''The (Adelaide) Chronicle'', (Saturday, 6 August 1910), p.32.
Australian rules footballers from South Australia
Port Adelaide Football Club (SANFL) players
Port Adelaide Football Club players (all competitions)
1880s births
1961 deaths
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