Hec Yeomans

Hec Yeomans
Personal information
Full name Hector Richard Yeomans
Date of birth (1895-02-17)17 February 1895
Place of birth Albert Park, Victoria
Date of death 11 September 1968(1968-09-11) (aged 73)
Place of death Parkville, Victoria
Height / weight 173 cm / 70 kg
Position(s) Forward
Playing career1
Years Club Games (Goals)
1920
1921–24
1925
Total (VFL)		 St Kilda
Hawthorn (VFA)
Hawthorn		 05 0(8)
72 (99)
15 (16)
20 (24)
1 Playing statistics correct to the end of 1925.

Hector Richard "Hec" Yeomans (17 February 1895 – 11 September 1968)[1] was an Australian rules footballer who played with St Kilda and Hawthorn in the Victorian Football League (VFL).[2]

Yeomans was born in Albert Park, Melbourne in 1895, the only child of Richard Eli Yeomans and Norah Teresa Cameron. He enlisted to fight in World War I in January 1916[3] and fought in France, receiving the Military Medal for his actions in the Battle of Mont Saint-Quentin in September 1918.[4]

Yeomans played two games for St Kilda in the 1920 VFL season before leaving to join Hawthorn, then in the Victorian Football Association.[5] He continued to play for Hawthorn when they joined the VFL in 1925 and was their second highest goal-kicker for the year.

After two years on the sidelines, Yeomans joined Brunswick for the 1928 VFA season,[6] but only played a handful of games. He died in 1968.

References

  1. ↑ "Hec Yeomans - Player Bio". Australian Football. Retrieved 10 December 2014.
  2. ↑ Holmesby, Russell; Main, Jim (2009). The Encyclopedia of AFL Footballers: every AFL/VFL player since 1897 (8th ed.). Seaford, Victoria: BAS Publishing. ISBN 978-1-921496-00-4.
  3. ↑ "Hector Richard YEOMANS". the AIF Project.
  4. ↑ "Honours and Awards – Hector Richard Yeomans". Australian War Memorial.
  5. ↑ "SPORTING.". The Argus. Melbourne: National Library of Australia. 7 May 1921. p. 20.
  6. ↑ "FOOTBALL.". The Argus. Melbourne: National Library of Australia. 10 May 1928. p. 6. Retrieved 28 August 2014.

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