Garth Burkett

Garth "Gar" Burkett (21 March 1927 – 3 August 2012) was a former Australian rules footballer who played for West Adelaide in the South Australian National Football League (SANFL) between 1944 and 1954.[1]

Garth Burkett
Personal information
Full name Garth Burkett
Date of birth (1927-03-21)21 March 1927
Place of birth Keswick, South Australia
Date of death 3 August 2012(2012-08-03) (aged 85)
Original team(s) West Colts
Position(s) Centre
Playing career1
Years Club Games (Goals)
1944 West Adelaide-Glenelg
1945-1954 West Adelaide
Total 92 (11)
Representative team honours
Years Team Games (Goals)
1947, 1954 South Australia 4 (?)
1949-50 New South Wales 3 (?)
1 Playing statistics correct to the end of 1954.
Career highlights
  • West Adelaide Best and Fairest 1945, 1946
  • West Adelaide Premiership 1947
  • West Broken Hill Premiership 1949
  • Middleton Medal (BHFL) 1949
  • West Broken Hill Best and Fairest 1949, 1950, 1951
  • New South Wales Vice-Captain 1950 (Brisbane Carnival)
  • Stansbury Premiership 1953
  • Myponga Premiership 1957

Burkett shifted around a number of clubs over his career. Part-way through the 1944 season with West Colts, he shifted to Kelvinator in the South Australian Amateur Football League. He then joined the West Adelaide-Glenelg combined team for the final two games of the season, remaining with West Adelaide in 1945 and cementing his spot in the league team with back-to-back Best and Fairests (1945-46), and representing South Australia at the 1947 Hobart Carnival.

In 1949, Burkett was appointed Captain-Coach of West Broken Hill in the Broken Hill Football League,[2] a position he held for three seasons, leading them to the premiership in 1949 and winning the Broken Hill League's Middleton Medal the same year.[3] In each of the three seasons, Burkett won the West Broken Hill Best and Fairest,[4] and represented the Broken Hill Football League, and New South Wales on multiple occasions, including the 1950 Brisbane Carnival.[5][6]

In 1952, Burkett returned to South Australia and joined the Stansbury Football Club, who later that season were involved in controversy when they played an unapproved game against a combined Yorke Peninsula Football Association team in Moonta, South Australia, resulting in the club being suspended for the remainder of the Southern Yorke Peninsula Football Association season.[7]

Burkett returned to West Adelaide in 1954 and once again represented South Australia. In 1956, Burkett was appointed Captain-Coach of the Myponga Football Club, leading them to the Southern Football Association premiership in 1957.[6]

References
  1. Devaney, John. "Gar Burkett". AustralianFootball.com. Full Points Footy's SA Football Companion. Retrieved 25 September 2019.
  2. "Burkett to coach at Broken Hill". News (Adelaide). 14 December 1948. p. 7. Retrieved 25 September 2019.
  3. "Burkett - Middleton Trophy Winner". Barrier Daily Truth (Broken Hill). 19 September 1949. Retrieved 25 September 2019.
  4. "Garth Burkett - Wests' Main Trophy Winner". Barrier Daily Truth (Broken Hill). 6 September 1949. Retrieved 25 September 2019.
  5. "Garth Burkett". NSW Australian Football History Society. Retrieved 25 September 2019.
  6. "Garth Burkett – Champion Footballer". NSW Australian Football History Society. Retrieved 25 September 2019.
  7. "Stansbury Football Club Out For Season". The Pioneer (Yorketown). 15 August 1952. Retrieved 25 September 2019.
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