Jack Broadstock
Personal information
Full name John Harman Broadstock
Date of birth (1920-12-01)1 December 1920
Date of death 26 September 1995(1995-09-26) (aged 74)
Original team(s) West Adelaide (SANFL)
Height 183 cm (6 ft 0 in)
Weight 87 kg (192 lb)
Position(s) Centre
Playing career1
Years Club Games (Goals)
1938–42, 1947, 1950 West Adelaide (SANFL) 62 (37)
1943–46 Richmond (VFL) 33 (23)
1949, 1951 West Torrens (SANFL) 18 (15)
Coaching career
Years Club Games (W–L–D)
1950 West Adelaide 17 (9–8–0)
1 Playing statistics correct to the end of 1950.
Career highlights
  • Richmond premiership player 1943
  • Boulder City premiership captain-coach 1948
  • West Adelaide captain-coach 1950
  • West Adelaide Football Club Hall of Fame member
Sources: AFL Tables, AustralianFootball.com

John Harman Broadstock (1 December 1920 – 26 September 1995)[1] was an Australian rules footballer who started his league career with West Adelaide Football Club in the South Australian National Football League (SANFL) in 1938 before moving to Melbourne to play for the Richmond Football Club in the Victorian Football League (VFL) in 1943[2] and winning a premiership with the club in his debut season. He served as a private in the Australian Army during the Second World War.[3]

Career

In just his sixth VFL game, Broadstock became a premiership player when he was the centreman in Richmond's winning 1943 VFL Grand Final team. He played finals football again the following season and kicked three goals in a Semi Final loss to Fitzroy, but was suspended for eight weeks for hacking.[4]

Broadstock had started his career at West Adelaide in 1938 and returned there in 1947. He missed out on playing in their premiership side that year when he was suspended the week before for hacking at Port Adelaide ruckman Bob McLean.[5]

He captain-coached Boulder City to a Goldfields National Football League premiership in 1948, having spent the first half of the season unavailable to play due to residential qualification requirements and a tribunal suspension that was imposed the previous season in Adelaide.[6] Broadstock returned to West Torrens the following season[7] and was a losing Grand Finalist. Back at West Adelaide in 1950, he was captain coach for the year before announcing his retirement.

References

  1. ^ "Jack Broadstock - Player Bio". Australian Football. Retrieved 21 November 2014.
  2. ^ "Broadstock Lifts Tigers' Ruck Work". Sporting Globe. No. 2216. Victoria, Australia. 15 September 1943. p. 15 (Edition2). Retrieved 20 January 2021 – via National Library of Australia.
  3. ^ "World War Two Service". Australian Government – Department of Veteran's Affairs. Retrieved 16 January 2021.
  4. ^ "Broadstock out for eight weeks". The Argus (Melbourne). No. 30, 597. Victoria, Australia. 20 September 1944. p. 11. Retrieved 20 January 2021 – via National Library of Australia.
  5. ^ "McLean, Broadstock Say—Press 'Should Be at Inquiries'". News. Vol. 49, no. 7, 538. South Australia. 1 October 1947. p. 3. Retrieved 20 January 2021 – via National Library of Australia.
  6. ^ "Boulder's New Coach". Kalgoorlie Miner. Vol. 54, no. 13, 258. Western Australia. 17 April 1948. p. 5. Retrieved 20 January 2021 – via National Library of Australia.
  7. ^ "News of Jack Broadstock". Kalgoorlie Miner. Vol. 55, no. 14, 473. Western Australia. 25 April 1949. p. 6. Retrieved 20 January 2021 – via National Library of Australia.

External links


Richmond Football Club 1943 VFL premiers
South Australian team – 1941 Interstate Game
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