1. Ivor Warne-Smith was an Australian footballer who played for the Melbourne Football Club in the Victorian Football League and for the Latrobe Football Club in the North-Western Football Union in Tasmania.
21 Facts About Ivor Warne-Smith
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Ivor Warne-Smith was named in the Tasmanian Team of the Century.
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Ivor Warne-Smith fought in both World War I and World War II.
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Ivor Warne-Smith was born in Sydney and moved to Melbourne with his family when he was a child.
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Ivor Warne-Smith was educated at Wesley College, where he was noted as a footballer and cricketer.
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Ivor Warne-Smith served at Gallipoli and on the Western Front.
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On returning to Melbourne in 1919 Ivor Warne-Smith joined the Melbourne Football Club, in the VFL and played eight games at centre halfback in that season.
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Ivor Warne-Smith was captain of the NWFU representative team in statewide competition, and was selected to play for Tasmania in the 1924 national carnival, although he was unable to play.
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Ivor Warne-Smith was a talented ruckman and could play in the centre or forward line if required.
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In 1926 Ivor Warne-Smith won his first Brownlow Medal and his second in 1928.
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Ivor Warne-Smith played for Victoria against other state sides from 1926 to 1929, and was captain of the state team in 1928 and 1929.
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Ivor Warne-Smith retired as a player at the end of 1931, coached the club in 1932 and played in several games that season when other players were unavailable.
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Ivor Warne-Smith served with the Royal Australian Army Service Corps, in charge of fuel supplies, in the Middle East, the Northern Territory, New Guinea and Borneo.
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In 1949 Ivor Warne-Smith became chairman of selectors for the Melbourne Football Club, a post he held until his death.
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Ivor Warne-Smith was elected to the committee of the Melbourne Cricket Club, which at this time controlled the Melbourne Football Club.
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Ivor Warne-Smith was Smith's closest advisor and was regarded as the club's elder statesman, becoming a life member in 1952.
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Ivor Warne-Smith won the Brownlow Medal twice: in 1926, and again in 1928.
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Ivor Warne-Smith was the first player to win the medal twice, and one of eleven to have won the Brownlow in the same year that his team won the premiership.
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In June 2000 Ivor Warne-Smith was named to the position of centre half-forward in the Melbourne Football Club's Team of the Century, in a ceremony attended by his four grandsons.
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Ivor Warne-Smith was made a member of the Australian Football Hall of Fame in 1996.
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Ivor Warne-Smith is an astute leader, who makes some daring moves and inspires his players by his own brilliance.