Lindsay Beck

Lindsay Beck
Personal information
Full name Lindsay George Beck
Date of birth (1900-04-04)4 April 1900
Place of birth Broken Hill, New South Wales
Date of death 5 February 1982(1982-02-05) (aged 81)
Place of death Broken Hill, New South Wales
Original team(s) South Broken Hill
Height / weight 168 cm / 68 kg
Position(s) Rover
Playing career1
Years Club Games (Goals)
1921–1922
1924
1926		 Port Adelaide
Glenelg
Hawthorn		 29 (26)

02 0(0)
1 Playing statistics correct to the end of 1926.

Lindsay George Beck (4 April 1900 – 5 February 1982) was an Australian rules footballer who played with Port Adelaide and Glenelg in the South Australian National Football League (SANFL) and Hawthorn in the Victorian Football League (VFL).[1]

After commencing his career with South Broken Hill Football Club, Beck moved to Adelaide and played with Port Adelaide in 1921–1922, returned to Broken Hill for the 1923 season and then played for Glenelg in 1924.[2] He again returned to South Broken Hill for the 1925 season.

Beck and his South Broken Hill team-mate Tom Everuss both joined Hawthorn at the start of the 1926 VFL season.[3] He made his debut against North Melbourne in Round 2[4] and played the next game and was then dropped. Beck then returned to South Broken Hill.

In 1928 he married Elizabeth Jane Cashman and they lived in South Broken Hill until his death in 1982.

Notes

  1. ↑ Holmesby, Russell; Main, Jim (2014). The Encyclopedia of AFL Footballers: every AFL/VFL player since 1897 (10th ed.). Seaford, Victoria: BAS Publishing. ISBN 978-1-921496-32-5.
  2. ↑ "INTERSTATE ROVER.". News. Adelaide: National Library of Australia. 8 May 1924. p. 10 Edition: HOME EDITION.
  3. ↑ "MORE PERMIT APPLICATIONS.". The Argus. Melbourne: National Library of Australia. 6 May 1926. p. 18.
  4. ↑ "POOR GAME AT NORTH MELBOURNE.". The Argus. Melbourne: National Library of Australia. 10 May 1926. p. 18.

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