Peter Dalwood

Peter Anstey Dalwood (17 June 1922 – 22 May 2000)[1] was an Australian rules footballer who played for Norwood in the South Australian National Football League (SANFL) and Fitzroy in the Victorian Football League (VFL).

Peter Dalwood
Personal information
Full name Peter Anstey Dalwood
Date of birth (1922-06-17)17 June 1922
Place of birth Toorak Gardens, South Australia
Date of death 22 May 2000(2000-05-22) (aged 77)
Place of death South Australia
Height 193 cm (6 ft 4 in)
Weight 89 kg (196 lb)
Playing career1
Years Club Games (Goals)
1945–54 Norwood 147
1945 Fitzroy 7 (12)
1 Playing statistics correct to the end of 1954.
Sources: AFL Tables, AustralianFootball.com

Family

The son of Alfred Lionel Dalwood (1897-1991),[2] and Lillian Jane Dalwood (1897-1984), née Anstey-Harris, Peter Anstey Dalwood was born at Toorak Gardens, South Australia on 17 June 1922.[3]

He married Iris May Bell (1924-) in Adelaide on 19 January 1946.[4]

Education

He was educated at Adelaide's Prince Alfred College; and, while there, he excelled as a schoolboy cricketer,[5] hurdler and track-and-field athlete,[6][7] and footballer.[8]

He went on to study at the University of Adelaide.[9]

Military service

He served in the Australian Army from October 1941 to April 1946.[10]

Football

On leaving Prince Alfred College, he played with the Adelaide University Football Club in the South Australian Amateur Football League (SAAFL).[11]

While serving with the Australian Army, he played with the Windsor Football Club in the Brisbane-based Queensland Australian Football League (QAFL).[12]

Dalwood, in his fourth VFL game, kicked seven goals to help Fitzroy defeat Collingwood. It was the highlight of his brief stint in the league.

In 1946 he returned to Norwood, with whom he kicked 70 goals for the year to top the SANFL goal-kicking. A key forward and ruckman, he was the leading goal-kicker at Norwood on a further two occasions. He was a six time South Australian interstate representative, for a return of 13 goals.

Under captain-coach Jack Oatey, Dalwood appeared in Norwood's 1946, 1948 and 1950 premiership teams. He kicked five goals in the 1946 Grand Final win over Port Adelaide.

Death

He died in South Australia on 22 May 2000.[13][14]

Notes
  1. "Savill Index of The Advertiser Funeral Notices". State Library of South Australia. Retrieved 25 February 2015.
  2. Pen Portraits of People: Editor and Secretary, The (Adelaide) News, (Saturday, 15 May 1926), p.4.
  3. Births: Dalwood, The (Adelaide) Mail, (Saturday, 17 June 1922), p.2.
  4. Approaching Marriages: Dalwood—Bell, The (Adelaide) Advertiser, (Friday, 18 January 1946), p.16.
  5. Fine College Teams to Meet in Big Game, The (Adelaide) News, (Thursday, 14 December 1939), p.27.
  6. College Sports at Adelaide Oval, The (Adelaide) News, (Friday, 28 April 1939), p.5.
  7. College Sports: Putting the Weight (Photograph), (Saturday, 29 April 1939), p.28.
  8. Best and Fairest in Schools, The (Adelaide) News, (Friday, 23 August 1940), p.2.
  9. Records Broken at University Sports, The (Adelaide) Advertiser, (Thursday, 8 May 1941), p.16.
  10. Nominal Roll, and Service Record.
  11. Norwood will be After Him", The (Adelaide) News, (Saturday, 16 June 1945), p.5.
  12. 'High Mark', "Rules Games", The (Brisbane) Telegraph, (Friday, 28 May 1943), p.6.
  13. "Savill Index of The Advertiser Funeral Notices". State Library of South Australia. Retrieved 25 February 2015.
  14. Peter Anstey Dalwood, centennialpark.org,

References
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