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Clarrie Hindson
Clarrie Hindson
Personal information
Full name	Clarence Melville Hindson
Date of birth	6 October 1907
Place of birth	Wychitella, Victoria
Date of death	12 February 2002 (aged 94)
Place of death	Tewantin, Queensland
Original team(s)	Brighton Vale Amateurs
Height	173 cm (5 ft 8 in)
Weight	73 kg (161 lb)
Playing career1
Years	Club
1930–1936	St Kilda
	1 Playing statistics correct to the end of 1936.
	Sources: AFL Tables, AustralianFootball.com

Clarence Melville Hindson (6 October 1907 – 12 February 2002)^[1] was an Australian rules footballer who played with St Kilda in the Victorian Football League (VFL).^[2]

Family

The son of Charles Melville Hindson (1882-1947),^[3] and Mary Winifred Hindson (1887-1974), née McMahon, Clarence Melville Hindson was born at Wychitella, Victoria on 6 October 1907. His brother, Cyril James Hindson (1912-), played in 106 games for the Brighton Football Club in the VFA from 1935-1940.^[4]

He married Dulcie May Barker (1914-1982) in 1936.^[5]

Cricket

He played Sub-District cricket with the Brighton Cricket Club in the 1930-31 season.^[6]^[7]^[8]

Football

He was recruited from the Brighton Vale Football Club in the C-Section of the Metropolitan Amateur Football Association (MAFA)^{[broken anchor]}. Identified as "unallotted", Hindson was granted a permit to play with St Kilda on 23 April 1930.^[9]

St Kilda (VFL)

Hindson was captain of St Kilda for part of the 1933 VFL season, after the playing coach broke his shoulder. He didn't captain the club the following year but was in charge for the entire 1935 season.

27 May 1933

In his last senior match of St Kilda, Hindson was one of those injured in the infamous and brutal match against North Melbourne, at the Junction Oval, on 27 May 1933 — which was stopped at one stage because a wild brawl instigated by the North Melbourne players had erupted in the centre — in which (at that time winless in 1933) St Kilda, with only 15 men still on the field, defeated North Melbourne 13.19 (97) to 11.17 (83).^[10]^[11]

Of the nineteen St Kilda men that participated (i.e, including the 19th man Tom Fogarty),^[12]^[11] eleven were injured: Jack Anderson (leg), Stewart Anderson (knocked out), Roy Bence (concussion; twice), Doug Bourne (calf), Matt Cave (eye gash), Bill Downie (broken thumb), Jack George (ankle), Clarrie Hindson (broken ankle), Jack Holden (ankle), Bill Mohr (broken ribs), and Billy Roberts (concussion).^[11] Despite their injuries, seven remained on the field: Jack Anderson, Stewart Anderson, Bourne, Bill Downie, George, Holden, and Roberts.^[11] The St Kilda President, Gallipoli veteran and naval war hero Commander Fred Arlington-Burke, who described St Kilda's 15-man victory as the greatest moral victory in the club's history, commissioned a silver "Badge of Courage" — bearing the inscription "St KILDA DEFEATED Nth MELBOURNE WITH 15 MEN MAY 27th 1933" — which was awarded to each of the players that took part in the match.^[11]