Arthur Rademacher

Arthur Rademacher
Personal information
Full name	George Arthur Rademacher
Date of birth	27 November 1889
Place of birth	South Melbourne, Victoria
Date of death	26 September 1981(1981-09-26) (aged 91)
Place of death	Ringwood, Victoria
Original team(s)	Leopold
Height/Weight	175 cm / 76 kg
Position(s)	Defender
Playing career¹
Years	Club	Games (Goals)
1913–1920 1920–1923	South Melbourne Hawthorn (VFA)	101 (0) 44 (0)
Coaching career
Years	Club	Games (W–L–D)
1933	Hawthorn	4 (1-3-0)
¹ Playing statistics correct to end of 1933 season.

Arthur Rademacher (27 November 1889 – 26 September 1981)^[1] was an Australian rules footballer who played with South Melbourne in the Victorian Football League (VFL).

Rademacher, originally from Leopold (a club based in South Melbourne). He played in the side which lost the 1914 Grand Final to Carlton. He was a half back flanker in South Melbourne's 1918 premiership team.

He played the first two games for South Melbourne in 1920, bringing his total to 100 games before accepting an offer from Hawthorn (in the VFA) to step in as coach after Neddy Alley stood down. He played one last game for South before being granted a clearance to be able to play for the club he now coached. He stayed on as captain-coach for the 1921 season before handing over the position to Bill Walton.

Rademacher continued to play with Hawthorn who were competing in the VFA but had retired before Hawthorn moved to the VFL.

He stayed at the club and performed various functions around the club for many years. In 1933 he stepped in again to coach Hawthorn, when appointed coach Fred Phillips died on the eve of the season opener. He coached for four games for the solitary win before the club appointed Bill Twomey to coach for the rest of the season.

References

↑ "Arthur Rademacher - Player Bio". Australian Football. Retrieved 10 December 2014.

Arthur Rademacher's statistics from AFL Tables
Holmesby, Russell and Main, Jim (2007). The Encyclopedia of AFL Footballers. 7th ed. Melbourne: Bas Publishing.

South Melbourne Football Club 1918 VFL premiers

South Melbourne 9.8 (62) defeated Collingwood 7.15 (57), at the Melbourne Cricket Ground

2. Belcher 4. Barber 6. Caldwell (c) 8. Doherty 9. Daly 12. Graham 14. Howell 16. Hynes 17. Laird 20. O'Halloran 22. Rademacher 23. Robertson 24. Ryan 26. Skehan 27. Tandy 29. Turner 30. Wood 32. O'Donoghue

Coaches: Elms Howson

Coaches of the Hawthorn Football Club

1914: Gough 1915: P. Woods 1919: McKenzie 1920: Alley 1920–1921: Rademacher 1922–1924: Walton 1925: Hall 1926–1927: Minogue 1928: Sutton 1929: Chadwick 1930–1931: Harris 1932: Jackson 1933: Phillips 1933: Rademacher 1933–1934: Twomey 1935–1938: McAlpine 1939: Thomas 1940–1941: Mills 1942–1943: Cazaly 1944: Lahiff 1945–1946: Shea 1947–1949: Albiston 1950–1951: McCaskill 1952–1959: Hale 1957: Kennedy 1960–1963: Kennedy 1964–1965: Arthur 1966: O'Donohue 1967–1976: Kennedy 1973: Simonds 1977–1980: Parkin 1981–1987: Jeans 1988: Joyce 1989–1990: Jeans 1991–1993: Joyce 1994–1995: Knights 1996–1999: Judge 2000–2004: Schwab 2001: Connolly 2004: McDonald 2005–: Clarkson 2014: Bolton

Italics denote caretaker coach

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