Ambrose Harold Palmer was a talented world-class professional prize fighter and a leading Australian rules footballer of the 1930s and early 1940s.
11 Facts About Ambrose Palmer
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The third child of the Victorian champion lightweight boxer William Arthur Palmer, and May Palmer, nee Ranger, Ambrose Harold Palmer was born at Footscray, Victoria on 16 October 1910.
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Ambrose Palmer married Emma May Gibson, at Footscray, on 12 September 1931.
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Ambrose Palmer later became a renowned boxing trainer, notably for Jack Johnson world champion Johnny Famechon, and Len Dittmar.
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Ambrose Palmer made his debut in the back-pocket for Victorian Football League club Footscray in the match against South Melbourne on 6 May 1933.
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Ambrose Palmer went on to play 83 matches for Footscray, retiring in 1943.
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In Round One of the 1939 VFL season, Footscray were playing Essendon Football Club and Ambrose Palmer, resting in the forward-pocket, collided head-on with Essendon backman Stan Wilson, suffering sixteen jaw, cheekbone and skull fractures.
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Ambrose Palmer died at Yarraville, Victoria on 16 October 1990.
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Ambrose Palmer was appointed Member of the Order of the British Empire "for services to sport" in June 1971.
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Ambrose Palmer was inducted into the Sport Australia Hall of Fame in 1985.
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Ambrose Palmer was inducted into the Australian National Boxing Hall of Fame in 2003.