Jim Sandral

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Jim Sandral
Personal information
Date of birth (1933-02-19) 19 February 1933 (age 90)
Original team(s) Rennie, Corowa
Height 179 cm (5 ft 10 in)
Weight 85 kg (187 lb)
Playing career1
YearsClubGames (Goals)
1956–1957 Melbourne 22 (2)
1 Playing statistics correct to the end of 1957.
Career highlights
Sources: AFL Tables, AustralianFootball.com

Jim Sandral (born 19 February 1933) is a former Australian rules football player who played for Melbourne in the Victorian Football League (VFL).

Sandral, who didn't start playing football until the age of 16, commenced his football with Rennie Football Club and played in their 1952 [1] and 1954 premiership teams and winning the club Best and Fairest award in and 1952 and 1954. [2] Sandral won the Coreen & District Football League – Best and Fairest award in 1953 [3] [4] and 1954. [5] He was also runner up to his Rennie coach, Frank O' Leary [6] in the 1952 Coreen & District Football League best and fairest award, the Archie Denis Memorial Trophy. [7]

Sandral went into the Ovens and Murray Football League and played with Corowa in 1955 and was signed up by the Melbourne Football Club after starring for the O&MFL in the 1955 Victorian Country Football Championships. [8]

Sandral went onto play in Melbourne's 1956 VFL premiership team. [9] [10] Only a reserve in Melbourne's semi-final win, Sandral was given a starting spot for the 1956 VFL Grand Final, on a half forward flank, due to an injury suffered by Geoff McGivern in the semi-final. [11] He played a total of 22 league games with Melbourne. [12]

After leaving Melbourne, Sandral returned to Corowa in 1958 [13] as captain / coach of Corowa in 1958 and 1959.

Sandral won the Ovens & Murray Football League's best and fairest award, the Morris Medal, three times. [13] His first win was in 1959, the second of his two years as coach, then had further wins in 1962 and 1964. [13]

Sandral also won Corowa's best and fairest award in 1960, 1961, 1962, 1963 and 1964.

Sandral then returned home to the Rennie Football Club and coached them from 1965 to 1970, winning the club best and fairest in 1970, plus winning the Coreen & District Football League premiership in 1970 in his last game of football! [14] Sandral was also runner up in the Coreen & District Football League's Archie Denis Medal in 1966, 67, 68, 69 and 1970! [15]

He was inducted into the Ovens and Murray Football League's Hall of Fame in 2005. [16] His son Denis played 348 senior games and won five best and fairest awards for Corowa Rutherglen Football Club was also inducted into the O&MFNL – Hall of Fame, in 2009. [17]

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References

  1. ↑ "1952 - Rennie FC Presentation Night Dinner". The Corowa Free Press. 10 October 1952. p. 1 – via Trove Newspapers.
  2. ↑ "1954 - Rennie celebrates football premiership". Corowa Free Press. 12 October 1954. p. 1 – via Trove Newspapers.
  3. ↑ "1953 - Coreen & DFL - Best & Fairest". The Lockhart Review and Oaklands Advertiser. 11 August 1953. p. 8 – via Trove Newspapers.
  4. ↑ "1953 - Coreen & DFL - Best & Fairest". The Corowa Free Press. 11 August 1953. p. 4. Retrieved 10 April 2020– via Trove Newspapers.
  5. ↑ "1954 - Dennis Medal to Sandral (Rennie)". The Corowa Free Press (NSW). 10 August 1954. p. 4. Retrieved 26 September 2021.
  6. ↑ "1952 - Coreen & DFL - Best & Fairest Award". The Lockhart Review and Oaklands Advertiser. 19 August 1952. p. 8 – via Trove Newspapers.
  7. ↑ "1952 - Coreen & DFL Best & Fairest". The Lockhart Review & Oaklands Advertiser. 26 August 1952. p. 8 – via Trove Newspapers.
  8. ↑ "1955 - Melbourne FC sign Sandral". The Argus. 20 July 1955. p. 25 – via Trove Newspapers.
  9. ↑ ABC News , "Sandral elevated as fourth Ovens and Murray legend", 19 June 2013, Nick Fogarty
  10. ↑ Holmesby, Russell; Main, Jim (2007). The Encyclopedia of AFL Footballers. BAS Publishing. ISBN   9781920910785.
  11. ↑ "They didn't take long to decide". The Argus . Melbourne. 14 September 1956. p. 22. Retrieved 31 March 2014.
  12. ↑ "Jim Sandral". AFL Tables.
  13. 1 2 3 "Jim Sandral – Corowa". Fox Sports Pulse.
  14. ↑ "The Artful Defender". On Reflection. Kevin B. Hill. 19 July 2018.
  15. ↑ "Archie Denis Medal - Runners Up" (PDF). NSW Football History. Coreen & DFL. 15 September 2007. p. 3. Retrieved 3 December 2021.
  16. ↑ "2013 - O&MFNL Hall of Fame". O&MFNL. Ovens & Murray FNL.
  17. ↑ "2009 - O&MFNL - Hall of Fame". O&MFNL. Ovens & Murray FNL.


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