Sinclair Dickson

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| fullname = James Sinclair Dickson

| nickname = Sinc{{cite news |url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article130857375 |title=Three Years' Football Under False Name |newspaper=News |volume=47 |issue=7,171 |location=South Australia |date=27 July 1946 |access-date=25 October 2020 |page=5 |via=National Library of Australia}}

| birth_date = {{Birth date|1884|03|02|df=y}}

| birth_place = Goolwa, South Australia

| death_date = {{death date and age|1961|01|03|1884|03|02|df=y}}

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| originalteam = Semaphore Central{{cite news |url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article208804116 |title=FOOTBALL. |newspaper=The Express and Telegraph |volume=XLIII |issue=12,780 |location=South Australia |date=28 April 1906 |access-date=12 March 2017 |page=3 |via=National Library of Australia}}

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| position = Ruck Rover

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| years1 = 1906-1913

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| sooyears1 = 1908-1910

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2x Champion of Australia (1910, 1913)
3x {{AFL Por}} premiership player (1906, 1910, 1913)
2x Port Adelaide best and fairest (1908, 1909)
{{AFL Por}} Life Member (1928){{cite news |url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article129143603 |title=FORMER RUCKMAN |newspaper=News |volume=X |issue=1,492 |location=South Australia |date=26 April 1928 |access-date=24 October 2020 |page=14 (HOME EDITION) |via=National Library of Australia}}
Magarey Medal runner up (1909){{cite news |url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article196043666 |title=MOST GENTLEMANLY FOOTBALLER. |newspaper=The Age |issue=17,042 |location=Victoria, Australia |date=27 October 1909 |access-date=24 October 2020 |page=12 |via=National Library of Australia}}

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James Sinclair Dickson (2 March 1884 – 3 January 1961) was an Australian rules footballer for the Port Adelaide Football Club.

Football

Sinclair Dickson was a member of three Port Adelaide premiership teams in the South Australian Football League. He also won the Port Adelaide best and fairest in consecutive years in 1908 and 1909. Sinclair Dickson was runner up for the 1909 Magarey Medal.{{cite news |url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article196043666 |title=MOST GENTLEMANLY FOOTBALLER. |newspaper=The Age |issue=17,042 |location=Victoria, Australia |date=27 October 1909 |access-date=24 October 2020 |page=12 |via=National Library of Australia}} Dickson represented South Australia on seven occasions between 1908 and 1910.Agius (2014), p.136.

Sinclair Dickson served as the treasurer of the Port Adelaide Football Club during the 1920s.[https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/57045868 Obituary, The (Adelaide) Register, (Friday, 2 March 1928), p.8.] In 1924 Sinclair Dickson took part in a charity match that pitted retired champions against a league eighteen of mostly current state carnival players with the former side winning.{{cite news |url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article129864362 |title=LEAGUE EIGHTEEN SURPRISED |newspaper=News |volume=III |issue=376 |location=South Australia |date=6 October 1924 |access-date=24 October 2020 |page=3 (HOME EDITION) |via=National Library of Australia}} In 1928 Sinclair Dickson was made a life member of the Port Adelaide Football Club.{{cite news |url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article129143603 |title=FORMER RUCKMAN |newspaper=News |volume=X |issue=1,492 |location=South Australia |date=26 April 1928 |access-date=24 October 2020 |page=14 (HOME EDITION) |via=National Library of Australia}}

Outside football

In the 1930s Sinclair Dickson was the president of the Alberton Bowling Club.{{cite news |url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article74136073 |title=Victor Harbour Bowlers At Alberton |newspaper=The Advertiser (Adelaide) |location=South Australia |date=29 March 1935 |access-date=24 October 2020 |page=11 |via=National Library of Australia}}

Family

The son of William Dickson, and Helen Dickson, née Sinclair, James Sinclair Dickson was born at Goolwa, South Australia on 2 March 1884.

He married Muriel Mary Playfair (-1928) on 11 October 1910.[https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/58159367 Marriages: Dickson—Playfair, The (Adelaide) Register, (Monday, 7 November 1910), p.4]; [https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/57036865 Deaths: Dickson, The (Adelaide) Register, (Thursday, 1 March 1928), p.8.]

Footnotes

References

{{Cite book|title=2014 Port Adelaide Football Club Yearbook|last=Agius|first=Matthew|publisher=Bowden Group|year=2014|location=South Australia}}
[https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/197063300 Jubilee of Australian Football: The Inter-State Teams: The South Australian Team, The Leader, (Saturday, 29 August 1908), p.29.]
[https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/164681429 League Footballers: Port Adelaide, The (Adelaide) Observer, (Saturday, 29 May 1909), p.27.]
[https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/88301791 Interstate Football: Victoria v. South Australia: South Australian Team, The (Adelaide) Chronicle, (Saturday, 26 June 1909), p.32.]
[https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/88504758 Interstate Football on the Adelaide Oval: Victoria v. South Australia: South Australian Team, The (Adelaide) Chronicle, (Saturday, 6 August 1910), p.32.]

Category:Australian rules footballers from South Australia

Category:Port Adelaide Football Club (SANFL) players

Category:Port Adelaide Football Club players (all competitions)

Category:1884 births

Category:1961 deaths