Sinclair Dickson
Personal information
Full name James Sinclair Dickson
Nickname(s) Sinc[1]
Date of birth (1884-03-02)2 March 1884
Place of birth Goolwa, South Australia
Date of death 3 January 1961(1961-01-03) (aged 76)
Original team(s) Semaphore Central[2]
Position(s) Ruck Rover
Playing career
Years Club Games (Goals)
1906-1913 Port Adelaide 102 (38)
Representative team honours
Years Team Games (Goals)
1908-1910 South Australia 7
Career highlights
Source: AustralianFootball.com

James Sinclair Dickson (2 March 1884 – 3 January 1961) was an Australian rules footballer for the Port Adelaide Football Club.

Football

Sinclair Dickson was a member of three Port Adelaide premiership teams in the South Australian Football League. 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.[5] Dickson represented South Australia on seven occasions between 1908 and 1910.[6]

Sinclair Dickson served as the treasurer of the Port Adelaide Football Club during the 1920s.[7] 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.[8] In 1928 Sinclair Dickson was made a life member of the Port Adelaide Football Club.[9]

Outside football

In the 1930s Sinclair Dickson was the president of the Alberton Bowling Club.[10]

Family

The son of William Dickson, and Helen Dickson, née Sinclair, James Sinclair Dickson was born at Goolwa, South Australia on 2 March 1884.

He married Muriel Mary Playfair (-1928) on 11 October 1910.[11]

See also

Footnotes

Wikimedia Commons has media related to James Dickson (Australian footballer).
  1. ^ "Three Years' Football Under False Name". News. Vol. 47, no. 7, 171. South Australia. 27 July 1946. p. 5. Retrieved 25 October 2020 – via National Library of Australia.
  2. ^ "FOOTBALL". The Express and Telegraph. Vol. XLIII, no. 12, 780. South Australia. 28 April 1906. p. 3. Retrieved 12 March 2017 – via National Library of Australia.
  3. ^ "FORMER RUCKMAN". News. Vol. X, no. 1, 492. South Australia. 26 April 1928. p. 14 (HOME EDITION). Retrieved 24 October 2020 – via National Library of Australia.
  4. ^ "MOST GENTLEMANLY FOOTBALLER". The Age. No. 17, 042. Victoria, Australia. 27 October 1909. p. 12. Retrieved 24 October 2020 – via National Library of Australia.
  5. ^ "MOST GENTLEMANLY FOOTBALLER". The Age. No. 17, 042. Victoria, Australia. 27 October 1909. p. 12. Retrieved 24 October 2020 – via National Library of Australia.
  6. ^ Agius (2014), p.136.
  7. ^ Obituary, The (Adelaide) Register, (Friday, 2 March 1928), p.8.
  8. ^ "LEAGUE EIGHTEEN SURPRISED". News. Vol. III, no. 376. South Australia. 6 October 1924. p. 3 (HOME EDITION). Retrieved 24 October 2020 – via National Library of Australia.
  9. ^ "FORMER RUCKMAN". News. Vol. X, no. 1, 492. South Australia. 26 April 1928. p. 14 (HOME EDITION). Retrieved 24 October 2020 – via National Library of Australia.
  10. ^ "Victor Harbour Bowlers At Alberton". The Advertiser (Adelaide). South Australia. 29 March 1935. p. 11. Retrieved 24 October 2020 – via National Library of Australia.
  11. ^ 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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