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Albert Prior - Wikipedia

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Albert Prior
Personal information
Full name	Albert Edward Prior
Date of birth	15 January 1921
Place of birth	Melbourne, Victoria
Date of death	21 January 1971(1971-01-21) (aged 50)
Place of death	Donvale, Victoria
Original team(s)	Camberwell (VFA)
Height	185 cm (6 ft 1 in)
Weight	85 kg (187 lb)
Playing career¹
Years	Club	Games (Goals)
1941, 1944–50	Hawthorn	103 (258)
¹ Playing statistics correct to the end of 1950.
Career highlights
4× Hawthorn leading goalkicker: 1946–1949
Sources: AFL Tables, AustralianFootball.com

Albert Edward "Butch" Prior (15 January 1921 – 21 January 1971^[1]) was an Australian rules footballer who played with Hawthorn in the VFL during the 1940s.^[2]

Family

The son of Thomas Edward Prior (1882–1968), and Charlotte Nicholls Prior (1884–1956), née Jensen,^[3] Albert Edward Prior was born at Melbourne, Victoria on 15 January 1921.

He married June Ivy Rose Braden (1924–2003) in 1945.

Football

A full-forward,^[4]^[5]^[6] he topped Hawthorn's goalkicking in every season from 1946 to 1949 with a best of 67 goals in 1947. He kicked 8 goals in a match three times: against Footscray on 3 May 1947, against Richmond on 17 May 1947 and, in his last match for Hawthorn, in a season where Hawthorn lost all 18 of its home-and-away games, against South Melbourne on 19 August 1950.

In 1951 Prior was cleared from Hawthorn and was appointed coach of the East Hawthorn team in the Eastern Suburban League.^[7]^[8]

Military service

Prior also served in the Australian Army during World War II.^[9]

Honours and achievements

Individual

Hawthorn leading goalkicker: 1946, 1947, 1948, 1949
Hawthorn life member

Notes

^ Prior, Albert. "Albert Prior Genealogy". ancestry.com. Retrieved 31 October 2013.
^ "Known as 'Butch' because he was the local butcher" (australianfootball.com).
^ Deaths: Prior, The Argus, (Wednesday, 24 October 1956), p.18.
^ Goalkicker Reinstated, The Argus, (Wednesday, 4 May 1949), p.24.
^ VFL teams of 1949, The Argus, (Saturday, 13 August 1949), p.4.
^ Taylor, Percy, "League Footballers of 1950—Full Forwards, The Argus, (Saturday, 27 May 1950), p.6.
^ Six Footers at Footscray, The Age, (Thursday, 8 March 1951), p.18.
^ Andrew, George, The Sporting Globe, (Saturday, 10 March 1951), p.5.
^ Nominal Roll.

References

World War Two Nominal Roll: Signalman Albert Edward Prior (VX131343), Department of Veterans' Affairs.
B883, VX131343: World War Two Service Record: Signalman Albert Edward Prior (VX131343), National Archives of Australia.

External links

Albert Prior's playing statistics from AFL Tables
Albert Prior at AustralianFootball.com
Albert Prior at Boyles Football Photos.

Hawthorn Football Club • leading goalkickers

VFL/AFL

1925: Woodford
1926: Hyde
1927: Hyde
1928: Hyde
1929: Hyde
1930: Hyde
1931: Ryan
1932: Ryan
1933: Pool
1934: Green
1935: Green
1936: Hillard
1937: Hillard
1938: Naismith
1939: Albiston
1940: Naismith
1941: Albiston
1942: Albiston
1943: Culpitt
1944: Culpitt
1945: Albiston
1946: Prior
1947: Prior
1948: Prior
1949: Prior
1950: Anderson
1951: Cash
1952: MacDonald
1953: Coghlan
1954: Coghlan
1955: Coghlan
1956: Peck
1957: Ingersoll
1958: Peck
1959: Young
1960: Young
1961: Peck
1962: Peck
1963: Peck
1964: Peck
1965: Peck
1966: Peck
1967: Hudson
1968: Hudson
1969: Hudson
1970: Hudson
1971: Hudson
1972: Knights
1973: Matthews
1974: Moncrieff
1975: Matthews
1976: Moncrieff
1977: Hudson
1978: Moncrieff
1979: Moncrieff
1980: Moncrieff
1981: Matthews
1982: Matthews
1983: Matthews
1984: Matthews
1985: Brereton
1986: Dunstall
1987: Dunstall
1988: Dunstall
1989: Dunstall
1990: Dunstall
1991: Dunstall
1992: Dunstall
1993: Dunstall
1994: Dunstall
1995: Dunstall
1996: Dunstall
1997: Holland
1998: Dunstall
1999: Lord
2000: Holland
2001: Barker
2002: Chick
2003: Thompson
2004: Thompson
2005: Williams
2006: Williams
2007: Franklin
2008: Franklin
2009: Franklin
2010: Franklin
2011: Franklin
2012: Franklin
2013: Roughead
2014: Roughead
2015: Gunston
2016: Gunston
2017: Roughead
2018: Breust
2019: Breust
2020: Gunston
2021: Breust
2022: Breust
2023: Breust
2024: Chol

AFL Women's

2022 (S7): Duffin
2023: McDonagh
2024: McDonagh

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