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Australian rules footballer

Australian rules footballer
Albert Prior
Personal information
Full name Albert Edward Prior
Date of birth 15 January 1921
Place of birth Melbourne, Victoria
Date of death 21 January 1971(1971-01-21) (aged 50)
Place of death Donvale, Victoria
Original team(s) Camberwell (VFA)
Height 185 cm (6 ft 1 in)
Weight 85 kg (187 lb)
Playing career
Years Club Games (Goals)
1941, 1944–50 Hawthorn 103 (258)
Playing statistics correct to the end of 1950.
Career highlights
Sources: AFL Tables, AustralianFootball.com

Albert Edward "Butch" Prior (15 January 1921 – 21 January 1971) was an Australian rules footballer who played with Hawthorn in the VFL during the 1940s.

Family

The son of Thomas Edward Prior (1882–1968), and Charlotte Nicholls Prior (1884–1956), née Jensen, Albert Edward Prior was born at Melbourne, Victoria on 15 January 1921.

He married June Ivy Rose Braden (1924–2003) in 1945.

Football

A full-forward, he topped Hawthorn's goalkicking in every season from 1946 to 1949 with a best of 67 goals in 1947. He kicked 8 goals in a match three times: against Footscray on 3 May 1947, against Richmond on 17 May 1947 and, in his last match for Hawthorn, in a season where Hawthorn lost all 18 of its home-and-away games, against South Melbourne on 19 August 1950.

In 1951 Prior was cleared from Hawthorn and was appointed coach of the East Hawthorn team in the Eastern Suburban League.

Military service

Prior also served in the Australian Army during World War II.

Honours and achievements

Individual

Notes

  1. Prior, Albert. "Albert Prior Genealogy". ancestry.com. Retrieved 31 October 2013.
  2. "Known as 'Butch' because he was the local butcher" (australianfootball.com).
  3. Deaths: Prior, The Argus, (Wednesday, 24 October 1956), p.18.
  4. Goalkicker Reinstated, The Argus, (Wednesday, 4 May 1949), p.24.
  5. VFL teams of 1949, The Argus, (Saturday, 13 August 1949), p.4.
  6. Taylor, Percy, "League Footballers of 1950—Full Forwards, The Argus, (Saturday, 27 May 1950), p.6.
  7. Six Footers at Footscray, The Age, (Thursday, 8 March 1951), p.18.
  8. Andrew, George, The Sporting Globe, (Saturday, 10 March 1951), p.5.
  9. Nominal Roll.

References

External links

Hawthorn Football Club • leading goalkickers
VFL/AFL
AFL Women's


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