Almanac Books: Almanacker Peter Clark wins book award!

 

 

 

Peter Clark wins NSW Footy History Society Award

 

A labour of love for Almanacker Peter Clark has been rewarded with NSW Football History Society’s Harry Hedger award for the best historical work on football in NSW in 2021.

 

The award was made to Peter at the annual lunch and awards event at the Western Suburbs licenced club in Sydney last week by the Society’s Publications awards chair and fellow Almanacker, Rod Gillett.

 

Footy Almanac readers have got to know Peter through his well-crafted season recalls of St Kilda 1966 and all that in 2020 and Geelong’s Record Run 1952-53 this year.

 

Originally from Albury, Peter developed his love of the game by going to Ovens and Murray league games with his father, Jim, the football reporter for the Border Morning Mail. After graduating as a secondary school teacher he was posted to such exotic footy locations as Tooleybuc, Temora and Kooringal (Wagga) before finishing off at Shoalhaven and retiring to the NSW south coast.

 

An extract from the book can be read Here:

 

The Harry Hedger Award for 2021

 

The winner is Peter Clark for his book In the True Sporting Spirit: the history of the Rannock Football Club:

 

This book was clearly a work of love.  The Rannock Football Club ceased playing over fifty years ago and Rannock itself, like so many small rural towns is now a community of a mere 103 souls.  But, through diligent, extended work in newspaper records, and with the help of some surviving archival material preserved in the community, Peter was able to compile a detailed chronological record of a of football club that played in six different leagues in the 41 years of its existence.  The Rannock Football Club was an example the sort of team that formed the sporting backbone of the Riverina (and indeed all country Australia) for most of the twentieth century.  Thanks to this work Rannock now stands as a metaphor for all lost country football clubs.

 

The Harry Hedger Award – Highly Commended

 

Highly Commended was the Charles Sturt University Football & Netball Club for its history of the club, The Evolution of the Bushpigs & Bushsows

 

The Gus McKernan Award

 

The Gus McKernan Award is given to the annual report or yearbook by a club or league or an associated body such as a junior competition or an umpires’ association judged by the Society to be the best produced in that year.

 

Gus McKernan Award for a yearbook for 2019

 

The winner was the Moore Park Tigers Junior Australian Football Club

 

Gus McKernan Award for a yearbook for 2020

 

The winner was the Pennant Hills Australian Football Club.

 

The Gus McKernan Award – Highly Commended

 

A Highly Commended certificate was awarded to the Mangoplah Cookardinia United Eastlakes Goannas Football and Netball Club

 

To buy a copy of Peter’s Rannock book costs $25 – includes postage.

For a copy contact by email:

[email protected]

Or phone: 0422642055

 

You can read the articles mentioned above and more by Peter Clark Here.

 

 

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