Ted Holdsworth

Ted Holdsworth
Personal information
Full name	Henry Edwin Arthur Holdsworth
Date of birth	26 January 1917[1]
Date of death	23 September 1984 (aged 67)
Position(s)	Full forward Full-back
Playing career^1
Years	Club	Games (Goals)
1935–38, 1940–41, 1945–47 1939	Swan Districts Kalgoorlie City	143 (532)
Representative team honours
Years	Team	Games (Goals)
1945–46	Western Australia	2
Coaching career^3
Years	Club	Games (W–L–D)
1939 1952	Kalgoorlie City Swan Districts	20 (2–18–0)
^1 Playing statistics correct to the end of 1947. ^2 State and international statistics correct as of 1946. ^3 Coaching statistics correct as of 1952.

Henry Edwin Arthur "Ted" Holdsworth (26 January 1917 - 23 September 1984^[2]) was an Australian rules footballer who was highly successful in the West Australian National Football League (WANFL) playing for the Swan Districts Football Club.

A fine full forward who was a strong overhead mark and a very accurate kick Holdsworth topped the top goal kicker list at Swan Districts during his career. In 1937 and 1938 he kicked 109 and 116 goals respectively yet never topped the WANFL goal kickers list.^[3]

Undoubtedly Holdsworth would have kicked even more goals if he were part of a more successful team and had not been called to play in defence to prevent other sides from kicking higher totals against the struggling Swans.

Holdsworth played twice for Western Australia, once at full forward and in the 1946 side that played South Australia Holdsworth played at fullback as he was also regarded as a fine backman.^[4]

Retiring as a player in 1947, Holdsworth had played 143 games for the club and booted 532 goals the second-most of any Swans player after Eric Gorman. He went on to coach Swan Districts in 1952 and later became vice president of the club. He is named in the Swan Districts Team of the Century at full forward. His grandson, Ryan Turnbull, later played senior football for Claremont, East Perth, and the West Coast Eagles.

References

1. "Ted Holdsworth (Swan Districts)". wafl.com.au. Retrieved 25 June 2015.
2. Ted Holdsworth: Goal Kicking Champion at the Wayback Machine (archived 22 August 2007)
3. "Full Points Footy – Ted Holdsworth". 2007. Archived from the original on 2011-06-07. Retrieved 2007-09-29.
4. "WAFL History – WA State Teams 1904–1950". 2007. Retrieved 2007-09-29.