Alec Albiston

Alec Albiston
Personal information
Birth 16 November 1917
Recruited from Kew
Height and weight 175 cm / 73 kg
Death 1998,
Playing career¹
Team(s)

Hawthorn (1936–42; 1945–49)

  • 170 games, 383 goals

North Melbourne (1950)

  • 7 games, 6 goals

Total – 177 games, 389 goals
Coaching career¹
Team(s)

Hawthorn (1947–49)

  • 57 games, 12 wins, 45 loses
¹ Statistics to end of 1950 season

Alec Albiston (born 16 November 1917, died 1998) is a former Australian rules footballer who played with Hawthorn in the Victorian Football League (VFL) and with North Melbourne for his final season. A goalkicking rover, he was captain and coach of Hawthorn between 1947 and 1949. He was the first player in the history of the club to kick 10 goals in a match, doing so against North Melbourne in the opening round of the 1940 season.

Albiston won the Hawthorn best and fairest award in both 1941 and 1946. He topped the Hawks' goalkicking charts four times during his career, in 1939, 1941, 1942 and 1945.

Albiston was involved in a nasty off season split at Hawthorn in 1949; Albiston had accepted that he would not be coaching in 1950, but a committeeman had promised him the captaincy. Bob McCaskill had wanted Kevin Curran as captain and this caused a huge internal fight. Brownlow Medallist Col Austen sided with Albiston. The committee sided with the new coach and Albiston and Austen were given open clearances. With the loss of its best two players, Hawthorn lost every game of the 1950 season.

In 2011 he was inducted into the Hawthorn Football Club Hall of Fame.[1]

References

  1. ^ Hawthorn’s Hall of Fame inductees for 2011

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