1. John Cole Reedman was a leading Australian sportsman of the late nineteenth and early twentieth century.
14 Facts About Jack Reedman
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Jack Reedman began to make his mark as an Australian rules footballer in 1884, whilst playing parklands football for Medindie.
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Jack Reedman went on to join Hotham who were in the Adelaide Suburban Association competition, and was a key member of the club's 1885 premiership side.
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Jack Reedman captained Hotham when they again won the ASA premiership in 1886.
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Jack Reedman led North Adelaide from 1901 to 1905, and in that time the club won premierships in 1902 and 1905, with Jack Reedman being part of the 1900 premiership team.
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Jack Reedman captained South Australia in 1903, and in 1907 played both his 300th game - only the second ever player in elite Australian rules football to do so - as well as his 306th game to break the elite Australian rules football games record held by Victorian Peter Burns.
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Jack Reedman coached West Adelaide to its first ever premiership in 1908, and then defeated Victorian Football League premiers Carlton Football Club to become Champions of Australia.
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Jack Reedman promptly left West Adelaide to return to North Adelaide for one last season as a player at the age of 43, but it was an inauspicious finale, as the red and whites finished second last.
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Jack Reedman made his first-class cricket debut for South Australia on 17 February 1888 against Victoria at the Adelaide Oval.
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An all-rounder, Jack Reedman made a duck in his only innings of the match and did not bowl as South Australia won by an innings and 113 runs.
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Jack Reedman has been selected as a back pocket and change ruckman in South Adelaide's official "Greatest Team".
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Jack Reedman lived on Gilbert Street, Gilberton and worked as a letter sorter in Adelaide with the Postal Department.
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Jack Reedman coached the cricket and football teams at Prince Alfred College for many years.
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Jack Reedman died in the morning on 29 March 1924 aged 58 following an operation at a private hospital, after several years of ill-health, leaving a widow, three sons and a daughter.