Ron Clegg

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Ron Clegg
Personal information
Birth November 17, 1927,
Recruited from
Height and weight 183 cm / 84 kg
Playing career¹
Debut 1945, South Melbourne vs. , at
Team(s) South Melbourne (1945-60)
  • 231 games, 156 goals
Coaching career¹
Team(s) South Melbourne (1958-59)
  • 36 games, 15 wins, 21 losses
¹ Statistics to end of 1959 season
Career highlights

  • Brownlow Medal 1949
  • Runner Up Brownlow Medal 1951
  • South Melbourne Best & Fairest 1948, 1949, 1951
  • South Melbourne captain 1953-1954, 1957-1960
  • South Melbourne/Sydney Swans Team of the Century
  • Victorian representative (15 games, 7 goals)

Ron "Smokey" Clegg (born 17 November 1927; died -23 August 1990) was an Australian rules footballer in the (then) Victorian Football League.

A brilliant key position player at either centre half-forward or centre half-back, he was awarded the Brownlow Medal in 1949 while playing with the then South Melbourne Football Club.

In 1996 Clegg was inducted into the Australian Football Hall of Fame.

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