Sam Snell
Personal information
Full name Sam Snell
Date of birth 8 May 1911
Date of death 26 June 2002(2002-06-26) (aged 91)
Original team(s) Barooga
Height 185 cm (6 ft 1 in)
Weight 78 kg (172 lb)
Playing career1
Years Club Games (Goals)
1936–1945 St Kilda 93 (21)
1 Playing statistics correct to the end of 1945.
Sources: AFL Tables, AustralianFootball.com

Sam Snell (8 May 1911 – 26 June 2002)[1] was an Australian rules footballer who played with St Kilda in the Victorian Football League (VFL).

Snell, who was from Barooga in New South Wales, played much of his football at St Kilda as a centre half-back.[2] He received eight Brownlow Medal votes in 1939.[3]

After appearing in the opening round of the 1940 VFL season, Snell didn't play at all for the next four years.[3] During that time he worked as a police constable and in 1942 was awarded a bronze medal from the Royal Humane Society after seizing the reins of two horses that had bolted from a delivery van on the busy Bourke Street, Melbourne.[4]

He returned to the side in 1944. The following year spent some time up forward and was St Kilda's joint leading goal-kicker with 21 goals, the only goals on his career.[3] He transferred to Preston in 1946.[5]

References

  1. ^ "Sam Snell - Player Bio". Australian Football. Retrieved 17 November 2014.
  2. ^ Holmesby, Russell; Main, Jim (2007). The Encyclopedia Of AFL Footballers. BAS Publishing. ISBN 978-1-920910-78-5.
  3. ^ a b c "AFL Tables: Sam Snell". afltables.com.
  4. ^ The Argus,"Award To Constable", 23 May 1942, p. 10
  5. ^ The Argus,"Sam Snell returns to train with Preston", 18 June 1947, p. 27
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