Roy Bent
| Roy Bent | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| File:Roy Bent Norwood.jpg | |||
| Personal information | |||
| Full name | Roy Edward Kimberley Bent | ||
| Nickname | Cool Alec | ||
| Born |
1900 Broken Hill, New South Wales | ||
| Died |
(aged 75) Mount Gambier, South Australia | ||
| Original team | North Broken Hill[1] | ||
| Position | Full Forward | ||
| Playing career1 | |||
| Years | Club | Games (Goals) | |
| 1921 – 1928 | Norwood | 98 (333) | |
| Representative team honours | |||
| Years | Team | Games (Goals) | |
| South Australia | 17 (60) | ||
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1 Playing statistics correct to the end of 1928. | |||
| Career highlights | |||
| Sources: AFL Tables, AustralianFootball.com | |||
Roy Edward Kimberley "Alex" Bent (1900 – 7 October 1975) was an Australian rules footballer who played with the Norwood Football Club in the South Australian Football Association.
Family
[edit | edit source]The son of Christopher Bent (1863-1916),[2] and Ellen Edith Bent (1868-1951), née Bird, Roy Edward Kimberley Bent was born at Broken Hill, New South Wales in 1900.[3]
He married Muriel Helen Topham (1904-1974) on 15 February 1930.[4][5][6]
Football
[edit | edit source]He was the competition's leading goal kicker on four occasions 1921, 1924, 1925 and 1926.
Suspension before 1923 Grand Final
[edit | edit source]In September 1923 Bent was suspended for six matches for throwing the ball at a boundary umpire and "bruising his chest"[7] — the boundary umpire had signalled that, as Bent raced down the boundary line towards the goal, the ball was out of bounds; Bent thought otherwise[8][9] — in the match against South Adelaide on 8 September 1923.[10] Upon a vigorous appeal,[11] his suspension was later reduced to three weeks.[12]
On 29 September 1923, on the day of the Grand Final (from which Bent had been suspended), Bent was jokingly awarded a leather medal, by a group called the "Wallaby Club Sympathisers", in remembrance of his suspension.[13]
Death
[edit | edit source]He was killed in a car accident in 1975.[7]
Notes
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- ^ Lua error in Module:Citation/CS1/Configuration at line 2172: attempt to index field '?' (a nil value).
- ^ In Memoriam: Bent, The Barrier Miner, (Monday, 3 September 1917), p.2.
- ^ NSW Registry of Births, Deaths & Marriages: Births Registration no.11234/1900.
- ^ Engagements: Topham—Bent, The (Adelaide) Advertiser, (Saturday, 26 October 1929), p.18.
- ^ Marriages: Bent—Topham, The (Adelaide) Advertiser, (Saturday, 8 February 1930), p.18.
- ^ Weddings: Bent—Topham, The (Adelaide) News, (Thursday, 27 February 1930), p.7.
- ^ a b Redlegs Museum: Hall of Fame: Bent, Roy (1921-1928).
- ^ South Adelaide v. Norwood, The (Adelaide) Mail, (Saturday, 8 September 1923), p.7.
- ^ Bent Reported, The (Adelaide) Mail, (Saturday, 8 September 1923), p.7.
- ^ Norwood Player Reported: Bent out for Six Matches, The (Adelaide) Register, (Thursday, 13 September 1923), p.18.
- ^ The Case of Roy Bent, The (Adelaide) Daily Herald, (Saturday, 15 September 1923), p.4.
- ^ Bent's Suspension Reduced to Three Matches, The (Adelaide) Daily Herald, (Tuesday, 18 September 1923), p.4.
- ^ Norwood's Hero: Bent gets Leather Medal, The (Adelaide) Mail, (Saturday, 29 September 1923), p.8.
