Herbie Matthews

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Herbie Matthews
Personal information
Date of birth(1913-11-20)20 November 1913
Date of death8 June 1990(1990-06-08) (aged 76)
Original teamFairfield
Debut1932, South Melbourne
Height/Weight177 cm / 76 kg
Playing career1

South Melbourne (1932–45)

  • 191 games, 17 goals
Coaching career

South Melbourne (1939) (1954–57)

  • 90 games, 27 wins, 62 losses, 1 draw
1 Playing statistics correct to end of 1945 season.
Career highlights


  • Brownlow Medal 1940
  • 2nd Brownlow Medal 1937, 1941
  • 3rd Brownlow Medal 1936 (equal)
  • South MelbourneBest and Fairest 1936, 1937, 1939, 1940, 1943
  • South Melbourne captain 1938–45
  • South Melbourne/Sydney Swans Team of the Century
  • Represented Victoria (4 games, 1 goal)

Herbie Matthews (20 November 1913 – 8 June 1990) was an Australian rules footballer who played for South Melbourne in the Victorian Football League. He was recruited from suburban Fairfield under the League's "father and son" rule. His father, 'Butcher' Matthews, partnered the great Roy Cazaly in South Melbourne's ruck combination of the early 1920s. Although he was smaller and slighter in build than his ruckman father, he was a strong mark and showed a ferocious drive for possession of the football. He was recruited by South Melbourne at the age of 17 in the face of determined approaches from Collingwood and his local VFA club, Northcote.[1]

A centreman/wingman with great pace, stamina and skills, he was awarded the Brownlow Medal in 1940 and was runner up on another two occasions. He won his club's Best and Fairest award 5 times and captained them from 1938 until 1945

In 1997 Matthews was inducted into the Australian Football Hall of Fame and in 2003 was named on the wing in South Melbourne's official 'Team of the Century'.

References

  1. ↑ Branagan, Mark and Lefebvre, Mike, Bloodstained Angels, The Rise & Fall of the Foreign Legion, 1995, self-published, Melbourne, Australia, page 7
  • Ross, John (1999). The Australian Football Hall of Fame. Australia: HarperCollinsPublishers. p. 92. ISBN 0-7322-6426-X. 
  • AFL Hall of Fame


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