Jack Symons

Jack Symons
Personal information
Date of birth	11 May 1912
Date of death	23 November 1993 (aged 81)
Original team(s)	Burnley
Height / weight	185 cm / 93 kg
Playing career^1
Years	Club	Games (Goals)
1934–1944 1944–1946 Total	Richmond Fitzroy	111 0(71) 036 0(58) 147 (129)
^1 Playing statistics correct to the end of 1946.
Career highlights
Richmond Life Membership 1943 Fitzroy Premiership Player 1944 Interstate games: 1

Jack Symons (11 May 1912 – 23 November 1993)^[1] was an Australian rules footballer who played with Richmond and Fitzroy in the Victorian Football League (VFL).

A local, Symons made his debut for Richmond in 1934 and spent a decade with the club. He played in losing grand finals in 1940 and 1942 and when Richmond finally won the premiership in 1943 he was absent from the side.

During the 1944 season he moved to Fitzroy and at the end of the year won his long awaited premiership, ironically against his former club, Richmond.

References

1. "Jack Symons - Player Bio". Australian Football. Retrieved 6 December 2014.

• Hogan P: The Tigers Of Old, Richmond FC, Melbourne 1996

External links

• Jack Symons's statistics from AFL Tables
• 2004 obituary of Maurie Hearn, mentioning Clen Denning and Laurie Bickerton as the surviving members of the Maroons' 1944 side