George Barton (footballer)

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George Barton
Personal information
Full name George Barton
Date of birth(1934-08-23)23 August 1934
Place of birth Tawonga, Victoria
Date of death 5 May 1977(1977-05-05) (aged 42) [1]
Original team(s) Tawonga, Myrtleford
Height 178 cm (5 ft 10 in)
Weight 77 kg (170 lb)
Playing career1
YearsClubGames (Goals)
1956 Hawthorn 9 (0)
1 Playing statistics correct to the end of 1956.
Sources: AFL Tables, AustralianFootball.com

George Barton (born 23 August 1934) is a former Australian rules footballer who played with Hawthorn in the Victorian Football League (VFL). [2]

Barton was born in Tawonga and started playing senior football for Tawonga in the Yackandandah & District Football League at 14. Barton was then recruited by Myrtleford in the Ovens & Murray Football League in 1955. [3]

After one season with Myrtleford, Hawthorn recruited Barton [4] and he made his senior VFL debut in round seven, 1956 against Fitzroy at Glenferrie Oval.

The Tallangatta & District Football League senior football best and fairest award was changed to the Barton Medal in 1977, after three times best and fairest winner, George Barton tragically passed away after a short battle with cancer. [5]

At the time of Barton's death, he was also a four time runner up in the Tallangatta & DFL best and fairest award between 1964 and 1970, where he originally polled the same number of votes as the winners, but finished second in the award to the player who polled the most three votes, on the countback system.

In 2016, the Tallangatta & District Football League retrospectively awarded the late George Barton, with an additional four Barton Medals, thus finishing up with an incredible seven T&DFL senior football best and fairest awards/Barton Medals.

Brother of Colin Barton, who played with Geelong Football Club and Bill Barton who played with North Melbourne Football Club.

Notes

  1. ↑ "1977 - George Barton - Headstone". Billon Graves. 5 May 1977. Retrieved 5 September 2024.
  2. ↑ Holmesby, Russell; Main, Jim (2014). The Encyclopedia of AFL Footballers: every AFL/VFL player since 1897 (10th ed.). Seaford, Victoria: BAS Publishing. p. 50. ISBN   978-1-921496-32-5.
  3. ↑ "1955 - Saints Impress at Training". Myrtleford Times and Ovens Valley Advertiser (Vic). 6 April 1955. p. 8. Retrieved 5 September 2024.
  4. ↑ "1956 - Hawthorn just one stop ahead". The Argus. 20 March 1956. p. 18. Retrieved 6 September 2024.
  5. ↑ Beau Greenway (24 September 2022). "Border and North East football families share connection to AFL grand finalists Sydney and Geelong". Border Morning Mail (Albury, NSW). Retrieved 5 September 2024.


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