Ron Benton

Ron Benton
Personal information
Full name	Ronald Mark Benton
Date of birth	1937
Playing career¹
Years	Club	Games (Goals)
1955-1965	West Adelaide (SANFL)	184 (198)
¹ Playing statistics correct to end of 1965 season.
Career highlights
SANFL debut with West Adelaide on 14 May 1955 SANFL Magarey Medallist 1957 West Adelaide Best & Fairest 1957 West Adelaide Premiership Player 1961 West Adelaide Leading Goal Kicker 1963 (29) West Adelaide Football Club Life Member 1962 West Adelaide Football Club Hall of Fame Inaugural Inductee 2005

Ronald Mark Benton (born 1937) is a former Australian rules footballer who played with West Adelaide in the South Australian National Football League (SANFL).

Benton made his debut for West Adelaide in 1955 shortly before his 17th birthday. His first kick in league football saw him score the first of 198 goals for the club. He would go on to play 184 games for West Adelaide and in 1957 he won the SANFL's highest individual honor, the Magarey Medal as well as winning West Adelaide's Best & Fairest award.

Ron Benton was also a member of West's 1961 premiership team playing on the half-forward flank as West Adelaide defeated Norwood for their first premiership win since 1947. The Grand Final was played on September 30 and in what became known as the 'Turkish Bath Grand Final'^[1] due to it being played in 35°C heat, West prevailed over the Redlegs 16.13 (109) to 11.7 (73) in front of 40,909 at the Adelaide Oval with the oppressive heat blamed for the lowest Grand Final attendance since West defeated Norwood in 1947. Benton was one of West's best players on the day with 21 kicks, 2 handballs, 4 marks and he kicked 2 goals.

He was West Adelaide's leading goal kicker in 1963 with 29 goals.

References

↑ Turkish Bath Grand Final

External links

Ron Benton's profile from AustralianFootball.com
West Adelaide Hall of Fame profile

Magarey Medal winners

1898: Green 1899: Malin 1900: not awarded 1901: Sandland 1902: MacKenzie 1903: Waye 1904: not awarded 1905: MacKenzie 1906: MacKenzie 1907: Mack 1908: Tierney 1909: R. Head 1910: Hosking 1911: Cumberland 1912: Low 1913: Leahy 1914: Ashley 1915: Barry / Hosking / Perry 1916–18: not awarded 1919: Moriarty 1920: Moriarty / Richardson 1921: Adams / Karney / Moriarty / Scott 1922: Barnes 1923: Riley 1924: Scott 1925: Bampton / Lill 1926: McGregor 1927: McGregor 1928: Handby 1929: Snell 1930: Scott 1931: Sexton 1932: Pontifex 1933: Dunn 1934: Johnston 1935: Cockburn 1936: McCallum 1937: Hawke 1938: Quinn 1939: McArthur / Pash 1940: Brock 1941: Boyall 1942–44: not awarded 1945: Quinn 1946: Hank 1947: Hank 1948: R. Phillips 1949: Crabb / R. Phillips 1950: McKay 1951: Marriott 1952: Fitzgerald 1953: Deane 1954: Fitzgerald 1955: L. Head 1956: Boyd 1957: Benton / Deane 1958: L. Head 1959: Fitzgerald 1960: Barbary 1961: Halbert 1962: Eustice 1963: L. Head 1964: Motley 1965: Window 1966: Kneebone 1967: Lindner / Obst 1968: Robran 1969: Phillis 1970: Robran 1971: R. Ebert 1972: Blight 1973: Robran 1974: R. Ebert 1975: Woite 1976: R. Ebert 1977: Trevor Grimwood 1978: Hodgeman 1979: Duckworth 1980: R. Ebert 1981: Aish 1982: McGuinness 1983: Antrobus 1984: Platten 1985: Fielke 1986: Anderson 1987: Jarman 1988: Whittlesea 1989: McAdam 1990: Hodges 1991: Naley 1992: Buckley 1993: B. Phillips 1994: McIntosh 1995: Kilpatrick / McIntosh 1996: Francou 1997: Atkinson / Jarman 1998: Osborn 1999: Squire 2000: Squire 2001: Brown / O'Connor 2002: Sheedy / Weatherald 2003: B. Ebert 2004: P. Thomas 2005: Clayton 2006: Backwell 2007: Allan 2008: Crane 2009: Archard / Ezard 2010: Allan 2011: Allan 2012: Cross / Symes 2013: M. Thomas 2014: Kirkwood 2015: Cross

The Magarey Medal has been awarded since 1898 to the "best and most brilliant" player in the South Australian National Football League and its various incarnations.

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