| Ralph Green | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Personal information | |||
| Full name | Ralph Frederick Green | ||
| Date of birth | 8 June 1911 | ||
| Place of birth | Adelaide, South Australia | ||
| Date of death | 9 March 1991 (aged 79) | ||
| Original team(s) | Colonel Light Gardens | ||
| Height | 183 cm (6 ft 0 in) | ||
| Weight | 84 kg (185 lb) | ||
| Position(s) | Fullback | ||
| Playing career1 | |||
| Years | Club | Games (Goals) | |
| 1930–31, 1933, 1935–45 | Sturt | 157 (44) | |
| 1932 | Carlton | 5 (2) | |
| 1934 | West Perth | 20 (17) | |
| Coaching career | |||
| Years | Club | Games (W–L–D) | |
| 1941, 1945, 1947–48 | Sturt | 72 (41–31–0) | |
1 Playing statistics correct to the end of 1948. | |||
| Sources: AFL Tables, AustralianFootball.com | |||
Ralph Frederick Green (8 June 1911 – 9 March 1991) was an Australian rules footballer who played with Sturt in the South Australian National Football League (SANFL). He also had stints at Carlton in the Victorian Football League (VFL) and West Perth in the Western Australian National Football League. [1]
Australian rules football, officially known as Australian football, or simply called Aussie rules, football or footy, is a contact sport played between two teams of eighteen players on an oval-shaped field, often a modified cricket ground. Points are scored by kicking the oval-shaped ball between goal posts or between behind posts.
The Sturt Football Club, nicknamed The Double Blues, is a semi-professional Australian rules football club based in the suburb of Unley, South Australia, which plays in the South Australian National Football League.
The South Australian National Football League, or SANFL, is an Australian rules football league based in the Australian state of South Australia. It is also the governing body for the sport of Australian rules football in South Australia.
Green, who played as a forward in his early years with Sturt, was lured to Carlton in 1932 and as a result missed out on playing in Sturt's premiership team that season. His time at Carlton was plagued by injuries and he was only able to play five games. [2] In 1933 he returned to Sturt and in the same year represented South Australia at the Sydney Carnival. [3]
The South Australia Australian rules team is the representative side of South Australia in the sport of Australian rules football.
The 1933 Sydney Carnival was the eighth edition of the Australian National Football Carnival, an Australian rules football interstate competition. The carnival was held in Sydney over an eleven-day period between Wednesday 2 August and Saturday 12 August.
The league went into recess for three seasons due to the war and Green served briefly with the Royal Australian Air Force in 1943. [4] He resumed his SANFL career in 1945, as Sturt's playing coach. [3] The following year he did not play or coach at Sturt, with Bo Morton taking up the position of senior coach. In 1947, Green returned to the club after Morton resigned. No longer a player, Morton coached Sturt for two more seasons and guided them to finals in each of those years.
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Parker Thomas "Bo" Morton was an Australian rules footballer, coach and administrator for the Sturt Football Club in the South Australian National Football League (SANFL).