Ted Pool

Ted Pool
Pool's football card
Personal information
Full name Herbert Edwin Pool
Date of birth (1905-11-09)9 November 1905
Place of birth Boulder, Western Australia
Date of death 11 February 1975(1975-02-11) (aged 69)
Place of death Glen Iris, Victoria
Original team(s) Kalgoorlie City
Height 165 cm (5 ft 5 in)
Weight 65 kg (143 lb)
Playing career1
Years Club Games (Goals)
1926–1938 Hawthorn 200 (230)
Representative team honours
Years Team Games (Goals)
Victoria 7 (?)
1 Playing statistics correct to the end of 1938.
Career highlights
Sources: AFL Tables, AustralianFootball.com

Herbert Edwin "Ted" Pool (9 November 1905 – 11 February 1975)[1] was an Australian rules footballer who played with Hawthorn in the Victorian Football League (VFL).[2]

Family

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The son of William James Pool (1882-1934),[3] and Harriet Jane Pool (1885-1962), née George, Herbert Edwin Pool was born at Boulder, Western Australia on 9 November 1905.[4]

He married Thelma Marjorie Batten (1910-1989), one of twins, on 28 March 1934.[5][6]

Football

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Hawthorn (VFL)

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Pool was a rover, and by playing 200 games of VFL football he became the first West Australian-born player to reach that milestone.

Despite his ability, playing for Victoria seven times, Hawthorn were a very poor team during his career.

Pool is (as of 2014) one of only five players in the AFL/VFL to play 200 games or more without playing a final (the others are Steve Smith and Gary Hardeman of Melbourne and Geoff Cunningham and Trevor Barker of St. Kilda).

Camberwell (VFA)

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Pool played 10 games at the age of 33 with the Camberwell Football club in 1939.[7]

Death

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Ted Pool died at Glen Iris on 11 February 1975 and is buried at Fawkner Memorial Park.

Honours and achievements

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See also

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Footnotes

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  1. ^ "Hawthorn Football Club Hall of Fame". Retrieved 10 April 2009.
  2. ^ Holmesby & Main (2009).
  3. ^ Deaths: Pool, The Argus, (Friday, 18 May 1934), p.1.
  4. ^ http://www.bdm.dotag.wa.gov.au/F/family_history.aspx?uid=8948-7352-6630-2234 Pool is registration number 925 in 1905 in district of Boulder
  5. ^ Miss Thelma Marjorie Batten, (Wednesday, 28 March 1934), p.34.
  6. ^ Weddings: Pone (sic)—Batten, Table Talk, (Thursday, 26 April 1934), p.38.
  7. ^ "Change for Pool". Trove Newspapers. The Argus. 15 March 1939. p. 28. Retrieved 9 December 2020.

References

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  • Holmesby, Russell & Main, Jim (2009), The Encyclopedia of AFL Footballers: every AFL/VFL player since 1897 (8th ed.), Seaford, Victoria: BAS Publishing. ISBN 978-1-921496-00-4
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