Jim Logan (Australian footballer)

Jim Logan
Personal information
Full name James Henry Benjamin Logan
Date of birth (1911-04-12)12 April 1911
Date of death 25 January 1999(1999-01-25) (aged 87)
Original team(s) Box Hill
Height 166 cm (5 ft 5 in)
Weight 68 kg (150 lb)
Playing career1
Years Club Games (Goals)
1942 Hawthorn 1 (0)
1 Playing statistics correct to the end of 1942.
Sources: AFL Tables, AustralianFootball.com

James Henry Benjamin Logan (12 April 1911 – 25 January 1999) was an Australian rules footballer who played with Hawthorn in the Victorian Football League (VFL).[1]

Family

The eighth of ten children born to George Henry Logan (1869–1938)[2] and Emma Harriet Logan (1877–1946), née Fisher,[3] James Henry Benjamin Logan was born in Clifton Hill, Victoria on 12 April 1911.[4]

His older brother, Albert Clarence Hill "Dick" Logan was also a VFL footballer with Hawthorn.

Football

Hawthorn (VFL)

Originally from Surrey Hills, Jim Logan was granted a permit to play for Hawthorn during the 1942 VFL season.[5] Logan played a single VFL game, lining up in the forward pocket in Hawthorn's loss to Melbourne on 30 May 1942.[6] The next week he was listed as injured[7] and although he remained on the training list through until 1943[8] he never managed another senior game.

Military service

Aged 33, Logan enlisted to serve in the RAAF in early 1945, and served for 13 months.[9]

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. 522. ISBN 978-1-921496-32-5.
  2. ^ "Family Notices". The Argus. No. 28764. Victoria, Australia. 31 October 1938. p. 10.
  3. ^ "Family Notices". The Age. No. 28559. Victoria, Australia. 5 November 1946. p. 7.
  4. ^ "Registry of Births, Deaths and Marriages Victoria". Government of Victoria.
  5. ^ "FOOTBALL". The Age. No. 27, 184. Victoria, Australia. 4 June 1942. p. 4.
  6. ^ "DEMONS' 1st FOR SEASON". Sporting Globe. No. 2081. Victoria, Australia. 30 May 1942. p. 3.
  7. ^ "FOOTBALL". The Age. No. 27, 185. Victoria, Australia. 5 June 1942. p. 4.
  8. ^ "Football". The Age. No. 27, 469. Victoria, Australia. 5 May 1943. p. 5.
  9. ^ "WWII Nominal Roll: James Henry Logan". Department of Veterans Affairs.


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