Ted Pool

Ted Pool
Pool's football card
Personal information
Full name Herbert Edwin Pool
Date of birth (1905-11-09)9 November 1905
Place of birth Boulder, Western Australia
Date of death 11 February 1975(1975-02-11) (aged 69)
Place of death Glen Iris, Victoria
Original team(s) Kalgoorlie City
Height 165 cm (5 ft 5 in)
Weight 65 kg (143 lb)
Playing career1
Years Club Games (Goals)
1926–1938 Hawthorn 200 (230)
Representative team honours
Years Team Games (Goals)
Victoria 7 (?)
1 Playing statistics correct to the end of 1938.
Career highlights
Sources: AFL Tables, AustralianFootball.com

Herbert Edwin "Ted" Pool (9 November 1905 – 11 February 1975)[1] was an Australian rules footballer who played with Hawthorn in the Victorian Football League (VFL).[2]

Family

The son of William James Pool (1882-1934),[3] and Harriet Jane Pool (1885-1962), née George, Herbert Edwin Pool was born at Boulder, Western Australia on 9 November 1905.[4]

He married Thelma Marjorie Batten (1910-1989), one of twins, on 28 March 1934.[5][6]

Football

Hawthorn (VFL)

Pool was a rover, and by playing 200 games of VFL football he became the first West Australian-born player to reach that milestone.

Despite his ability, playing for Victoria seven times, Hawthorn were a very poor team during his career.

Pool is (as of 2014) one of only five players in the AFL/VFL to play 200 games or more without playing a final (the others are Steve Smith and Gary Hardeman of Melbourne and Geoff Cunningham and Trevor Barker of St. Kilda).

Camberwell (VFA)

Pool played 10 games at the age of 33 with the Camberwell Football club in 1939.[7]

Death

Ted Pool died at Glen Iris on 11 February 1975 and is buried at Fawkner Memorial Park.

Honours and achievements

See also

Footnotes

  1. ^ "Hawthorn Football Club Hall of Fame". Retrieved 10 April 2009.
  2. ^ Holmesby & Main (2009).
  3. ^ Deaths: Pool, The Argus, (Friday, 18 May 1934), p.1.
  4. ^ http://www.bdm.dotag.wa.gov.au/F/family_history.aspx?uid=8948-7352-6630-2234 Pool is registration number 925 in 1905 in district of Boulder
  5. ^ Miss Thelma Marjorie Batten, (Wednesday, 28 March 1934), p.34.
  6. ^ Weddings: Pone (sic)—Batten, Table Talk, (Thursday, 26 April 1934), p.38.
  7. ^ "Change for Pool". Trove Newspapers. The Argus. 15 March 1939. p. 28. Retrieved 9 December 2020.

References

  • Holmesby, Russell & Main, Jim (2009), The Encyclopedia of AFL Footballers: every AFL/VFL player since 1897 (8th ed.), Seaford, Victoria: BAS Publishing. ISBN 978-1-921496-00-4
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