Brighton Diggins

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Brighton Diggins
Personal information
Full name	John Bryton Diggins
Date of birth	(1906-12-26)26 December 1906
Date of death	14 July 1971
Original team	Subiaco (WANFL)
Height/Weight	183cm / 92kg
Playing career¹
Years	Club	Games (Goals)
1927–1931 1932–1937 1938–1940	WANFL Subiaco VFL South Melbourne Carlton TOTAL	88 65 (21) 31 (6) 96 (27) 184 (?)
Coaching career³
Years	Club	Games (W–L–D)
1935 1938–1940 Total	South Melbourne Carlton	2 (2–0–0) 56 (38–18–0) 58 (40–18–0)
¹ Playing statistics correct to end of 1940 season. ³ Coaching statistics correct as of 1940.
Career highlights
Subiaco Team of the Century: centre half bacl South Melbourne premiership player 1933 Carlton premiership captain-coach 1938 Carlton captain 1938–1940

Brighton Diggins (born John Bryton Diggins, 26 December 1906 – 14 July 1971) was an Australian rules footballer in the West Australian Football League and Victorian Football League.

Diggins began his senior football career at the Subiaco Football Club in the West Australian Football League in 1927. A key position player and ruckman, Diggins was a strong mark and a fast runner,^[1] and by 1930, he was considered to be the finest key position player in Australia.^[2] He played with Subiaco from 1927 to 1931, and played 88 matches for the Lions.^[3]

In 1932, during the Great Depression, Diggins moved to Victoria to play for the South Melbourne Football Club in the VFL. Diggins was one of several Subiaco players who joined South Melbourne in the early 1930s, including Johnny Leonard (who was coaching), Bill Faul and John Bowe.^[2] The influx of players from interstate became known as South Melbourne's "Foreign Legion", and helped South's on-field performance significantly. Diggins won one premiership with South Melbourne in 1933, and played there until 1937.^[1]

In 1938, Diggins moved to the Carlton Football Club, taking on a leadership role as captain-coach, in which he flourished. In his first season at Carlton, he led the team to the premiership. He played two more seasons with Carlton, his last game coming in 1940 with the onset of World War II.^[1]

Diggins was named as the centre half-back in the Subiaco Team of the Century.^[1]

References

↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 "Brighton Diggins". Blueseum. 26 March 2010. Retrieved 13 October 2011.
↑ 2.0 2.1 Wishart, Ted. "History Timeline". Subiaco Football Club.
↑ Davenport, Jaclyn. "Subiaco Team of the Century". Subiaco Football Club. Retrieved 13 October 2011.

External links

Brighton Diggins at Blueseum
Brighton Diggins's statistics from AFL Tables

v t e Subiaco Football Club – Team of the Century

FB Lamb Sarre Daily

HB Kettlewell Diggins Faul

C Hamilton Featherby Kemp

HF Young Matson Buckenara

FF Pickett Robertson Outridge

R Fitzpatrick (c) Bunton, Sr. Leonard

I Keene Williams Banfield Heady

Coach Bunton, Jr.

selected in 2008

v t e South Melbourne Football Club 1933 VFL Premiers

South Melbourne 9.17 (71) defeated Richmond 4.5 (29), at the Melbourne Cricket Ground

Captain: 1. Bisset 2. Matthews 3. Austin 5. Brain 6. Clarke 8. McLaughlin 9. McKay 10. Bertram 11. O'Meara 12. Thomas 14. Faul 17. Diggins 18. Bowe 21. Reville 23. Pratt 25. Nash 29. Kelleher 30. McKenzie 34. Beard

Coach: Bisset

v t e Carlton Football Club 1938 VFL Premiers

Carlton 15.10 (100) defeated Collingwood 13.7 (85), at the Melbourne Cricket Ground

Captain: 5. Diggins 1. Anderson 2. McIntyre 4. Baxter 6. Chitty 7. Carney 10. Francis 11. Hale 12. Crisp 14. McLean 17. Hollingshead 21. Gill 22. Vallence 23. Schmidt 26. Park 28. Wrout 30. Price 31. McInnes 32. Green

Coach: Diggins

Captains of the Carlton Football Club

1897: Aitken
1898–1899: Walton
1900–1901: Stuckey
1902–1904: McShane
1905–1907: Flynn
1908–1911: Elliott
1912–1913: Wells
1914–1917: Dick
1918: McGregor
1919: Fisher
1920: O'Brien
1921: Green
1922–1923: Clover
1924: O'Brien
1925: Caldwell
1926: Brew
1927: Clover
1928–1931: Brew
1932: Martyn
1933: Gill
1934: Johnson
1935: Davey
1936: Francis
1937: Clarke
1938–1940: Diggins
1941–1944: Francis
1944: Atkinson
1945–1946: Chitty
1947–1952: Henfry
1952: Hands
1958–1960: Comben
1961–1962: Donaldson
1963: Nicholls
1964: Silvagni
1965–1968: Barassi
1968–1974: Nicholls
1974–1976: Jesaulenko
1977–1978: Walls
1978–1979: Jesaulenko
1980–1983: Fitzpatrick
1984–1985: Johnston
1986: Maclure
1987–1997: Kernahan
1998–2001: Bradley
2002–2003: Ratten
2003: McKay
2004–2006: Koutoufides
2007: Whitnall
2008–2012: Judd
2013–: Murphy

v t e Coaches of the South Melbourne Football Club/Sydney Swans

1909: Ricketts 1910–1911: Thomas 1912: Ricketts 1913: H. Kelly 1914–1917: Belcher 1918–1919: Elms/Howson 1920: Hiskins 1921: Wood 1922: Cazaly 1923–1928: Pannam 1929: Caldwell 1929: Fleiter 1930–1931: Scanlan 1932: Leonard 1933–1936: Bisset 1935: Diggins 1937–1938: Cazaly 1939: Matthews 1940: Baggott 1941–1944: J. Kelly 1945–1948: Adams 1948–1949: Hale 1950–1952: Lane 1953: Nash 1954–1957: Matthews 1958–1959: Clegg 1960–1961: Faul 1962–1964: McMahen 1965–1966: Skilton 1965: Lahiff 1967–1968: Miller 1969–1972: Smith 1973–1975: John 1976–1977: Stewart 1978: Tuddenham 1979–1981: Stewart 1982–1984: Quade 1984: Franklin 1984: Hammond 1985: Northey 1986–1988: Hafey 1989–1991: Kinnear 1992–1993: Buckenara 1993: Scott 1993–1995: Barassi 1996–2002: Eade 2002–2010: Roos 2011–: Longmire

Italics denote caretaker coach

v t e Coaches of the Carlton Football Club

1902–1909: Worrall 1909–1911: Elliott 1912: Clark 1913: Wells 1914–1918: Clark 1919: Valentine 1920–1922: Clark 1922–1923: Clover 1924: Parratt 1925: Caldwell 1925: O'Brien 1926: Brew 1927: Clover 1928: Brew 1929–1934: Minogue 1935–1936: Maher 1937: Rowe 1938–1940: Diggins 1941–1955: Bentley 1956–1958: Francis 1959–1964: Hands 1965–1971: Barassi 1972–1975: Nicholls 1972; 1975: McKenzie 1976–1977: Thorogood 1978: Stewart 1978: Silvagni 1978–1979: Jesaulenko 1980: Jones 1981–1985: Parkin 1986–1989: Walls 1989–1990: Jesaulenko 1991–2000: Parkin 2001–2002: Brittain 2003–2007: Pagan 2007–2012: Ratten 2013–: Malthouse

Italics denote caretaker coach

Persondata
Name	Diggins, Brighton
Alternative names	Diggins, John Bryton
Short description	Australian football player and coach
Date of birth	26 December 1906
Place of birth
Date of death	14 July 1971
Place of death

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