George "Blue" Johnston

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George "Blue" Johnston - Wikipedia

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George "Blue" Johnston
Personal information
Full name	George Bain Johnston
Date of birth	27 March 1907
Place of birth	Birkenhead, South Australia
Playing career¹
Years	Club	Games (Goals)
1927–1940	Glenelg, (SANFL)	203 (161)
¹ Playing statistics correct to the end of 1940.
Career highlights
Inaugural Glenelg premiership team 1934 Best and fairest for Glenelg 1932, 1936–1937 Played 16 games for South Australia Magarey Medallist 1934 Inducted Glenelg Hall of Fame 2002 Inducted SANFL Hall of Fame 2002
Source: AustralianFootball.com

George Bain "Blue" Johnston" (27 March 1907, date of death unknown) was an Australian rules footballer who played for Glenelg in the South Australian National Football League (SANFL) between 1927 and 1940.

Johnston was nicknamed "Blue" in typical Australian fashion due to his red hair. [1] Johnston played when the Glenelg club (formed in 1920) was still very much struggling to be competitive against the other seven, more established, sides in the League. Indeed, apart from the 1934 premiership, the highest the club finished during Johnston's playing career was sixth.

Johnston played 203 league games (the first Glenelg player to pass the 200 mark) during his career, won three best and fairest awards, and put in a best afield performance as the club broke its premiership duck against Port Adelaide in 1934. He also won the SANFL's highest individual honour – the Magarey Medal for the best and fairest player – in 1934.

Jeff Pash, himself a Magarey Medallist in 1939, described Johnston as "a phenomenal leaper for the ball ... he had the sort of (frightening) steel-spring strength about him that John Coleman had. All of him – and he was tall and strong – was up there for that ball."^[1]

Although smaller than most opposition ruckmen, in addition to his brilliant leap, he was extraordinarily powerful, an asset which served him well when playing for South Australia against the bigger bodies of Victoria.

Family

George "Blue" Johnston was a son of George Johnston, captain of the S.S. Cadell on the Spencer Gulf trade, and the Charles Sturt on the River Murray. His grandfather, George Bain Johnston, was a noted pioneer of the River Murray steamboat era.^[2]

External links

George "Blue" Johnston at AustralianFootball.com

References

^ Pash, Jeff; Paul Depasquale (1999). The Pash Papers Australian Rules Football in South Australia 1950-1964. Australia: Pioneer Books. p. 198. ISBN 0-908065-48-5.
^ "Out Among The People". The Advertiser. Adelaide. 30 December 1947. p. 4. Retrieved 5 September 2013 – via National Library of Australia.

Magarey Medal winners

1898: Green
1899: Malin
1900: not awarded
1901: Sandland
1902: MacKenzie
1903: Waye
1904: not awarded
1905: MacKenzie
1906: MacKenzie
1907: Mack
1908: Tierney
1909: R. Head
1910: Hosking
1911: Cumberland
1912: Low
1913: Leahy
1914: Ashley
1915: Barry/Hosking/Perry
1916–18: not awarded
1919: Moriarty
1920: Moriarty/Richardson
1921: Adams/Karney/Moriarty/Scott
1922: Barnes
1923: Riley
1924: Scott
1925: Bampton/Lill
1926: McGregor
1927: McGregor
1928: Handby
1929: Snell
1930: Scott
1931: Sexton
1932: Pontifex
1933: Dunn
1934: Johnston
1935: Cockburn
1936: McCallum
1937: Hawke
1938: Quinn
1939: McArthur/Pash
1940: Brock
1941: Boyall
1942–44: not awarded
1945: Quinn
1946: Hank
1947: Hank
1948: R. Phillips
1949: Crabb/R. Phillips
1950: McKay
1951: Marriott
1952: Fitzgerald
1953: Deane
1954: Fitzgerald
1955: L. Head
1956: Boyd
1957: Benton/Deane
1958: L. Head
1959: Fitzgerald
1960: Barbary
1961: Halbert
1962: Eustice
1963: L. Head
1964: Motley
1965: Window
1966: Kneebone
1967: Lindner/Obst
1968: Robran
1969: Phillis
1970: Robran
1971: R. Ebert
1972: Blight
1973: Robran
1974: R. Ebert
1975: Woite
1976: R. Ebert
1977: Trevor Grimwood
1978: Hodgeman
1979: Duckworth
1980: R. Ebert
1981: Aish
1982: McGuinness
1983: Antrobus
1984: Platten
1985: Fielke
1986: Anderson
1987: Jarman
1988: Whittlesea
1989: McAdam
1990: Hodges
1991: Naley
1992: Buckley
1993: B. Phillips
1994: McIntosh
1995: Kilpatrick/McIntosh
1996: Francou
1997: Atkinson/Jarman
1998: Osborn
1999: Squire
2000: Squire
2001: Brown/O'Connor
2002: Sheedy/Weatherald
2003: B. Ebert
2004: P. Thomas
2005: Clayton
2006: Backwell
2007: Allan
2008: Crane
2009: Archard/Ezard
2010: Allan
2011: Allan
2012: Cross/Symes
2013: M. Thomas
2014: Kirkwood
2015: Cross
2016: Kirkwood
2017: Grigg
2018: Grigg
2019: Partington
2020: Combe
2021: Gibbs/Tsitas
2022: Young
2023: Grant
2024: Boyd/Snelling

The Magarey Medal has been awarded since 1898 to the "best and most brilliant" player in the South Australian National Football League and its various incarnations.

v t e South Australian team – 1932 Interstate Games
Game 1: Victoria 12.20 (92) d South Australia 12.12 (84), at MCG, 10 June 1932 Game 2: South Australia 11.13 (79) d Victoria 9.10 (64) at Adelaide Oval, 6 August 1932
Both Games	Percy Furler (c) Ossie Bertram Alf Biddell Sid Burton John Connell Norm Drew Ned Hender Stan Jaffer Jeff Mott Charlie Parsons Max Pontifex Henry Simons Edgar Sims
Game 1 only	Ken Farmer Joe Johns Bob Johnson Arthur Link Ernest Masters Bo Morton Norman Proud
Game 2 only	Drozena Eden Harold Hawke Allan Hender Eric Johnson George Johnston Maurice Quinn Bob Snell

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