Ivor Warne-Smith
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| Personal information | |||
| Full name | Ivor Phillip Scharrer Warne-Smith | ||
| Date of birth | 29 October 1897 | ||
| Place of birth | Sydney, Australia | ||
| Date of death | 4 March 1960 (aged 62) | ||
| Place of death | Newport, Victoria | ||
| Original team(s) | Wesley College, Melbourne | ||
| Height | 182 cm (6 ft 0 in) | ||
| Weight | 86 kg (190 lb) | ||
| Playing career1 | |||
| Years | Club | Games (Goals) | |
| 1919 | Melbourne | 8 (2) | |
| 1920–1924 | Latrobe (NWFU) | 75 | |
| 1925–1932 | Melbourne | 138 (108) | |
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| Years | Team | Games (Goals) | |
| 1926–1929 | Victoria | 6 (0) | |
| Coaching career | |||
| Years | Club | Games (W–L–D) | |
| 1922–1924 | Latrobe (NWFU) | ||
| 1928–1932 | Melbourne | 92 (48–42–2) | |
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1 Playing statistics correct to the end of 1932.
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| Sources: AFL Tables, AustralianFootball.com | |||
Ivor Warne-Smith (29 October 1897 – 4 March 1960), was an Australian footballer, who played for the Melbourne Football Club in the Victorian Football League and for the Latrobe Football Club in the North-Western Football Union in Tasmania. During his time with Melbourne he won dual Brownlow Medals, played in their 1926 premiership side, was captain-coach of the club and represented Victoria on numerous occasions. Warne-Smith remained heavily involved with the club for the remainder of his life and was named in the Melbourne Football Club Team of the Century and was also named in the Tasmanian Team of the Century. During his life Warne-Smith also fought in both World War I and World War II.
Warne-Smith was born in Sydney, but his family moved to Melbourne when he was a child, and he was educated at Wesley College, where was noted both as a footballer and cricketer. In 1914 he received "triple honour colours" at Wesley, for showing "exceptional commitment to the team and an outstanding level of skill in the specific sport" in three separate sports. As a teenager he played for Collegians in the Metropolitan Amateur Football Association.
His career was interrupted by World War I: he enlisted in 1915 (he was below enlistment age but pretended to be 18, as many Australians did) and served at Gallipoli and on the Western Front. Two of his three brothers were killed in the war.
On returning to Melbourne in 1919 Warne-Smith joined the Melbourne Football Club, in the VFL and played eight games at centre halfback in that season.
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