Reg Garvin

Reg Garvin
Personal information
Full name Reginald William Garvin
Date of birth 19 September 1912
Place of birth Surry Hills, New South Wales
Date of death 1 December 1994(1994-12-01) (aged 82)
Original team(s) Newtown (NSWAFL)
Height 182 cm (6 ft 0 in)
Weight 87 kg (192 lb)
Playing career1
Years Club Games (Goals)
1932–1936 Newtown (NSWAFL)
1937–1946 St Kilda (VFL) 130 (33)
1947–1948 Prahran (VFA) 35 (15)
Coaching career
Years Club Games (W–L–D)
1942–1943 St Kilda (VFL) 24 (7–16–1)
1 Playing statistics correct to the end of 1948.
Sources: AFL Tables, AustralianFootball.com

Reginald William Garvin (19 September 1912 – 1 December 1994)[1] was an Australian rules footballer who played with St Kilda in the VFL. Garvin was a quick, tenacious, powerful, hard-working and dynamic centre half-forward in his prime.

Family

The son of William James Garvin, and Maud Elizabeth Garvin (-1949), Reginald William Garvin was born in Surry Hills, New South Wales,[2] on 19 September 1912.

He married Betty Edith Med (1915-1974) in 1939.

Education

He was educated at Alexandria Public School.[3]

Football

Newtown (NSWAFL)

Originally from the Newtown Football Club in the New South Wales Australian Football League (NSWAFL), Garvin had already represented his state at interstate football nine times (including three games at the 1933 Sydney ANFC Carnival) by the time he arrived at St Kilda.[3]

He won the Provan Medal, as the League's best and fairest player, in 1936.[3][4]

St Kilda (VFL

A follower, he finished equal 4th in the 1941 Brownlow Medal and won the first of his two St Kilda best and fairest awards, the other coming in 1944.

He represented the VFL against South Australia on 12 July 1941.[3]

For the 1942 and 1943 seasons Garvin was St Kilda's captain-coach.

1937 Best First-Year Players

In September 1937, The Argus selected Garvin in its team of 1937's first-year players.[5]

Best First-Year Players (1937)
Backs Bernie Treweek
(Fitzroy) 		Reg Henderson
(Richmond) 		Lawrence Morgan
(Fitzroy)
H/Backs Gordon Waters
(Hawthorn) 		Bill Cahill
(Essendon) 		Eddie Morcom
(North Melbourne)
Centre Line Ted Buckley
(Melbourne) 		George Bates
(Richmond) 		Jack Kelly
(St Kilda)
H/Forwards Col Williamson
(St Kilda) 		Ray Watts
(Essendon) 		Don Dilks
(Footscray)
Forwards Lou Sleeth
(Richmond) 		Sel Murray
(North Melbourne) 		Charlie Pierce
(Hawthorn)
Rucks/Rover Reg Garvin
(St Kilda) 		Sandy Patterson
(South Melbourne) 		Des Fothergill
(Collingwood)
Second Ruck Lawrence Morgan Col Williamson Lou Sleeth

Prahran (VFA)

After leaving St Kilda in 1946 he joined Prahran in the VFA where he finished his career in 1948.[6]

References

  1. ^ "Reg Garvin - Player Bio". Australian Football. Retrieved 11 December 2014.
  2. ^ de Lacy, H.A., "Reg. Garvin has Tried all Codes", The Sporting Globe, (Saturday, 6 July 1940), p.5.
  3. ^ a b c d Reginald William Garvin, at New South Wales Australian Football History Society.
  4. ^ Reg. Garvin wins Provan Medal, The Labor Daily, (Tuesday, 8 September 1936), p.8.
  5. ^ Football Season's Many Good Recruits, The Argus, (Tuesday, 7 September 1937), p.14.
  6. ^ "1948 - Garvin Wants to Return to League Rules". The Age. 13 September 1948. p. 8. Retrieved 16 May 2021.