Wallace Sharland

Wallace Sharland
Personal information
Full name Wallace Sutherland Sharland
Nickname(s) Jumbo
Date of birth (1902-10-11)11 October 1902
Place of birth Geelong, Victoria
Date of death 17 September 1967(1967-09-17) (aged 64)
Place of death Richmond, Victoria
Original team(s) Newtown
Height 191 cm (6 ft 3 in)
Weight 83 kg (183 lb)
Position(s) Ruckman
Playing career1
Years Club Games (Goals)
1920–1925 Geelong 49 (41)
Representative team honours
Years Team Games (Goals)
1921–1923 Victoria 4
1 Playing statistics correct to the end of 1925.
Sources: AFL Tables, AustralianFootball.com

Wallace Sutherland Sharland (11 October 1902 – 17 September 1967) was an Australian rules football player, journalist and commentator. He played with Geelong in the Victorian Football League (VFL).[1]

Sharland, who was commonly known by his nickname '"Jumbo", was recruited from Newtown.[2]

Geelong years

Sharland was an accomplished ruckman for Geelong, known for his good all-round skills, accurate palming of the ball and capability when required as a ruck shepherd. He debuted for Geelong aged 17 in the 1920 VFL season and in the same year joined the staff of the Geelong Advertiser.[3]

His skills as a cricketer came into attention on 29 January 1921 when he scored a century against England's touring Marylebone Cricket Club (MCC).[4] Playing for Geelong, Sharland scored 102 runs out of Geelong's total of 261 in their tour match at Corio Oval.[5] His innings, which was scored as an 18-year-old, earned praise from opponent Jack Hobbs who stated that Sharland "is a hard man to get out" and "is developing on the right lines".[6] He was awarded an inscribed bat from the Mayor of Geelong to commemorate his achievement.[7] The Age wrote an article stating that despite his young age Sharland could justifiably be selected in the Victorian side which were due to play the MCC on 4 February.[8] He however did not make the team and instead it was as a football personality that he made his name.

Sharland in Geelong colours

After making five appearances in his first VFL season, Sharland received more opportunities in 1921, with 13 games for Geelong.[9] He made enough of an impression to be in the first-ruck in the Victorian state side which went to Adelaide in August to defeat South Australia and also feature in the return leg at the Melbourne Cricket Ground (MCG).[10][11] In September 1921 he played his first final, which was a semi-final fixture against Richmond at the Melbourne Cricket Ground. Richmond won by 61-points to end Geelong's season.[12] He played a further eight games with Geelong in the 1922 VFL season.[9]

Sharland made his intentions known before the beginning of the 1923 season that he was seeking to join a Melbourne-based club.[13] He had moved to the city and been employed for the upcoming season as a writer for the Herald and The Sporting Globe.[14][15] His playing future was not decided until July, by which time he had fallen foul of the Geelong committee. The committee had been initially aggrieved by that fact he pulled out of a game against Essendon claiming to have a sore heel, but was able to represent Victoria against New South Wales a week later.[16] When it was revealed that Sharland had trained at Richmond without permission, the week before he took the field for Geelong against that same team, the Geelong committee debarred him from the club.[17] Unable to play in the VFL without a clearance, Sharland was forced to play in the Mornington Peninsula league with Frankston, where he was residing.[18][19]

Further attempts were made by Richmond in 1924 to acquire Sharland, but Geelong continued to refuse his clearance.[20] As a result, he made a decision to commit to Geelong for the season and was in the side from round two.[21][22] Sharland, who was also given the vice-captaincy, finished the season with a career high 15 appearances.[9] Although not selected as a player, Sharland got to attend the 1924 Hobart Carnival as a special correspondent for The Sporting Globe.[23]

For the 1925 VFL season, Sharland's last at Geelong, he was again appointed vice-captain.[24] A wrist injury which he sustained early in the season restricted him to just four games and cost him a place in Geelong's breakthrough 1925 premiership team.[1][9] He instead covered the finals series as a radio commentator, on ABC station 3AR.[25] In doing so he created history as the first radio commentator to broadcast a VFL game.[26] He broadcast the grand final from the back of the MCG's Grey Smith Stand and later recalled: "There was no sound-proof box and the sound accompaniment was pretty fierce when the excitement rose".[25]

Later broadcasting career

Wallace Sharland during a broadcast

Sharland continued as a journalist and commentator after ending his VFL career. In 1933 he left The Sporting Globe to concentrate on wireless broadcasting for the ABC[27] and later 3XY. He is recognised as a pioneer football commentator on radio.

How did Preston Football Club become known as the "Bullants"?

It is believed that Victorian Football Association club Preston became known as the Bullants after Sharland referred to the club's players during commentary as a "group of busy bullants".[28] The quote was based on the Preston players being small in stature and the fact they wore a red uniform.[28]

Personal life

Born in Geelong, Victoria on 11 October 1902, he was the son of James Sutherland Sharland, an engineer, and Jane Armstrong Sharland (née Little).[29] He had one elder brother, James Leonard Woodrofe, and two sisters, Dorothy and Jean.[30]

In 1910, Sharland joined his brother at Geelong College.[31] He made the cricket team's 1st XI at the age of 13 and later in 1918 began playing in the firsts for the football team as well.[31]

He got married in 1934 to Ada Moore, in a ceremony in East Malvern.[32] Ada died in 1949.[33]

During World War II Sharland served in the Middle East and Pacific.[34][35]

On 17 September 1967, Sharland died in Bethesda Hospital at the age of 64.[36]

References

  1. ^ a b "To See the World". The Sporting Globe (Stumps ed.). Melbourne. 17 October 1925. p. 4. Retrieved 3 October 2015 – via National Library of Australia.
  2. ^ Holmesby, Russell; Main, Jim (2007). The Encyclopedia of AFL Footballers. BAS Publishing. ISBN 9781920910785.
  3. ^ "Personal". Zeehan and Dundas Herald. Tasmania. 21 August 1920. p. 2. Retrieved 3 October 2015 – via National Library of Australia.
  4. ^ "Wallace Sharland's Century". Geelong Advertiser. Victoria. 1 February 1921. p. 2. Retrieved 3 October 2015 – via National Library of Australia.
  5. ^ "Geelong v Marylebone Cricket Club in 1920/21". CricketArchive. Retrieved 3 October 2015.
  6. ^ "Englishmen at Geelong". The Argus. Melbourne. 31 January 1921. p. 7. Retrieved 3 October 2015 – via National Library of Australia.
  7. ^ "A Rising Young Athlete". Frankston and Somerville Standard. Victoria. 4 February 1921. p. 1. Retrieved 3 October 2015 – via National Library of Australia.
  8. ^ "Victoria V. England". The Age. Melbourne. 31 January 1921. p. 4. Retrieved 3 October 2015 – via National Library of Australia.
  9. ^ a b c d "AFL Tables – Wallace Sharland – Games Played". AFLTables. Retrieved 3 October 2015.
  10. ^ "Football". Geelong Advertiser. Victoria. 10 August 1921. p. 6. Retrieved 3 October 2015 – via National Library of Australia.
  11. ^ "Football". The Argus. Melbourne. 15 August 1921. p. 11. Retrieved 3 October 2015 – via National Library of Australia.
  12. ^ "Triumph of Earnestness". The Argus. Melbourne. 26 September 1921. p. 7. Retrieved 3 October 2015 – via National Library of Australia.
  13. ^ "Sharland's Clearance". Geelong Advertiser. Victoria. 2 March 1923. p. 4. Retrieved 3 October 2015 – via National Library of Australia.
  14. ^ "On the Wing". Frankston and Somerville Standard. Victoria. 11 April 1923. p. 5. Retrieved 3 October 2015 – via National Library of Australia.
  15. ^ "Club Colors". The Sporting Globe. Melbourne. 14 April 1923. p. 5. Retrieved 3 October 2015 – via National Library of Australia.
  16. ^ "Football". The Age. Melbourne. 6 July 1923. p. 14. Retrieved 3 October 2015 – via National Library of Australia.
  17. ^ "Sharland's Football Position". Geelong Advertiser. Victoria. 7 July 1923. p. 4. Retrieved 3 October 2015 – via National Library of Australia.
  18. ^ "Sharland and the League". Frankston and Somerville Standard. Victoria. 25 July 1923. p. 5. Retrieved 3 October 2015 – via National Library of Australia.
  19. ^ "Wallace Sharland". Frankston and Somerville Standard. Victoria. 4 July 1923. p. 5. Retrieved 3 October 2015 – via National Library of Australia.
  20. ^ "Johns and Sharland Case". The Age. Melbourne. 25 April 1924. p. 7. Retrieved 3 October 2015 – via National Library of Australia.
  21. ^ "The Opening Days". The Australasian (Metropolitan ed.). Melbourne. 26 April 1924. p. 33. Retrieved 3 October 2015 – via National Library of Australia.
  22. ^ "Delighted the Spectators". Geelong Advertiser. Victoria. 22 April 1924. p. 2. Retrieved 3 October 2015 – via National Library of Australia.
  23. ^ "The Carnival". The Sporting Globe. Melbourne. 6 August 1924. p. 12. Retrieved 3 October 2015 – via National Library of Australia.
  24. ^ "Coaches and Captains Meet". The Age. Melbourne. 23 April 1925. p. 12. Retrieved 3 October 2015 – via National Library of Australia.
  25. ^ a b "Pioneer remembers first broadcasts..." The Age. 16 April 1964. Retrieved 4 October 2015.
  26. ^ Green, Jonathan (5 August 2006). "Radio waves – In Depth". The Age. Retrieved 3 October 2015.
  27. ^ "His New Role". Sporting Globe (STUMPS ed.). Melbourne. 2 December 1933. p. 6. Retrieved 4 October 2015 – via National Library of Australia.
  28. ^ a b Fiddian, Marc (2013). The VFA – A History of the Victorian Football Association 1877–1995. Melbourne Sports Books. p. 93.
  29. ^ "Obituary". The Argus. Melbourne. 13 February 1948. p. 5. Retrieved 29 August 2015 – via National Library of Australia.
  30. ^ "Family Notices". The Argus. Melbourne. 9 November 1939. p. 4. Retrieved 29 August 2015 – via National Library of Australia.
  31. ^ a b "Sharland, Wallace Sutherland (1902–1967)". Heritage Guide to The Geelong College. Retrieved 3 October 2015.
  32. ^ ""Jumbo" Sharland Married". The Sporting Globe (Stumps ed.). Melbourne. 3 February 1934. p. 2. Retrieved 4 October 2015 – via National Library of Australia.
  33. ^ "Family Notices". The Age. Melbourne. 21 March 1949. p. 2. Retrieved 4 October 2015 – via National Library of Australia.
  34. ^ "World War II Nominal Roll". Government of Australia. Retrieved 3 October 2015.
  35. ^ "Sportsmen Write from Papua". The Sporting Globe (1, Section: Cricket Section ed.). Melbourne. 25 November 1942. p. 13. Retrieved 4 October 2015 – via National Library of Australia.
  36. ^ "Deaths". The Age. 19 September 1967. p. 20. Retrieved 3 October 2015.
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