Ralph Gardiner (footballer)

Ralph Gardiner
Personal information
Full name Balfour Gardiner
Date of birth (1897-02-19)19 February 1897
Place of birth Cudgen, New South Wales
Date of death 3 May 1945(1945-05-03) (aged 48)
Place of death Sydney, New South Wales
Original team(s) North Melbourne (VFA)
Height 173 cm (5 ft 8 in)
Weight 72 kg (159 lb)
Playing career1
Years Club Games (Goals)
1920–21 Essendon 8 (3)
1 Playing statistics correct to the end of 1921.
Sources: AFL Tables, AustralianFootball.com

Balfour Gardiner (19 February 1897 – 3 May 1945) was an Australian rules footballer who played with Essendon in the Victorian Football League (VFL).[1]

He died in Sydney Hospital in May 1945 after being knocked over by a motor cyclist when alighting from a tram.[2][3]

Notes

  1. ↑ Holmesby, Russell; Main, Jim (2014). The Encyclopedia of AFL Footballers: every AFL/VFL player since 1897 (10th ed.). Seaford, Victoria: BAS Publishing. p. 306. ISBN 978-1-921496-32-5.
  2. ↑ "Family Notices". The Sydney Morning Herald (33, 498). New South Wales, Australia. 4 May 1945. p. 12.
  3. ↑ "NATIONAL FOOTBALL". The Canberra Times. 19, (5455). Australian Capital Territory, Australia. 22 May 1945. p. 4.


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