Ted Pool

Ted Pool
Ted Pool
	Pool's football card
Personal information
Full name	Herbert Edwin Pool
Date of birth	9 November 1905
Place of birth	Boulder, Western Australia
Date of death	11 February 1975 (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
1926–1938	Hawthorn
Representative team honours
Years	Team
	Victoria
	1 Playing statistics correct to the end of 1938.
Career highlights
	Hawthorn leading goalkicker: 1933;
	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

Hawthorn leading goalkicker: 1933
Hawthorn Hall of Fame
Hawthorn life member

Footnotes

^ "Hawthorn Football Club Hall of Fame". Retrieved 10 April 2009.
^ Holmesby & Main (2009).
^ Deaths: Pool, The Argus, (Friday, 18 May 1934), p.1.
^ 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
^ Miss Thelma Marjorie Batten, (Wednesday, 28 March 1934), p.34.
^ Weddings: Pone (sic)—Batten, Table Talk, (Thursday, 26 April 1934), p.38.
^ "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