Clive Yewers

Clive Lawson Yewers (16 October 1922 – 24 August 1975) was an Australian rules footballer who played with Footscray in the Victorian Football League (VFL).[1]

Clive Yewers
Personal information
Full name Clive Lawson Yewers
Date of birth (1922-10-16)16 October 1922
Place of birth Footscray, Victoria
Date of death 24 August 1975(1975-08-24) (aged 52)
Place of death Hastings, Victoria
Original team(s) West Footscray
Height 183 cm (6 ft 0 in)
Weight 74 kg (163 lb)
Playing career1
Years Club Games (Goals)
1947–48 Footscray 11 (4)
1 Playing statistics correct to the end of 1948.
Sources: AFL Tables, AustralianFootball.com

Family

The son of Harley Le Strange Yewers (1891-1975),[2] and Frances Ellen Yewers (1892-1954), née Carroll,[3] Clive Lawson Yewers was born at Footscray, Victoria on 16 October 1922.

He married Eva Gwendoline Graham in 1947.

Military service

He served in the Second AIF, having enlisted on 30 December 1942.

Football

Footscray (VFL)

Yewers made his debut for the Footscray First XVIII in the match against South Melbourne, at the Lake Oval, on 28 June 1947. Selected as 20th man,[4] he replaced the injured Arthur Olliver in the second half, and scored a goal with his first kick in VFL football.[5]

Yarraville (VFA)

Cleared from Footscray in 1949,[6] he played in six senior games in the 1949 season.

Death

He died at Hastings Hospital on 24 August 1975.[7]

See also

Notes
  1. Holmesby & Main (2014), p.979.
  2. Deaths: Yewers, The Age, {Monday, 8 September 1975), p.12.
  3. Deaths: Yewers, The Argus, (Monday, 5 April 1954), p.11.
  4. League and VFA Teams: League: South Melbourne v. Footscray, The Argus, (Friday, 27 June 1947), p.16.
  5. First Kick a Goal, The Argus, (Monday, 30 June 1947), p.14.
  6. Clearance for McIvor Refused, The Age, (Wednesday, 13 April 1949), p.18.
  7. Deaths: Yewers, The Age, (Monday, 25 August 1975), p.24.

References
  • Holmesby, Russell; Main, Jim (2014). The Encyclopedia of AFL Footballers: every AFL/VFL player since 1897 (10th ed.). Seaford, Victoria: BAS Publishing. ISBN 978-1-921496-32-5.
  • World War Two Nominal Roll: Private Clive Lawson Yewers (VX131298/V175350), Department of Veterans' Affairs.
  • B883, VX131298: World War Two Service Record: Private Clive Lawson Yewers (VX131298), National Archives of Australia.
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