Jack Sambell Explained

Jack Sambell
Fullname:	Jack Reginald Sambell
Birth Date:	20 May 1908
Birth Place:	Violet Town, Victoria
Death Place:	Fitzroy, Victoria
Originalteam:	Euroa, Glen Iris, Yallourn
Statsend:	1934
Years1:	1933–34
Games Goals1:	24 (6)

Jack Reginald Sambell (20 May 1908 – 22 August 1982)^[1] was an Australian rules footballer who played with Melbourne in the Victorian Football League (VFL).^[2]

Family

The second son of Edgar Shadforth Tremayne Sambell (1880-1950),^[3] and Barbara Katherine Sambell (1879-1963), née McPhee,^[4] Jack Reginald Sambell was born at Violet Town, Victoria, on 20 May 1908.

He married Vera May Howard (1907-1941) in 1935; she died giving birth to a stillborn child on 22 January 1941.^{[5] [6]}

He married Mary Irene Healy (1905-2000) in 1942.

Football

Transferred from Glen Iris, in the Eastern Suburbs League, in May 1932,^[7] he played in Yallourn's 1932 Gippsland Football League premiership,^[8] and won their club best and fairest award,^[9] before he was transferred to Melbourne by the Education Department in early 1933.^{[10] [11] [12]}

Death

He died at Fitzroy, Victoria on 22 August 1982.^[13]

References

• Technical Schools: Examination Results: Trained Secondary Teachers' Certificate: Melbourne Teachers' College, The Argus, (Tuesday, 17 January 1928), p.11.
• Football Appeal: Alleged Ineligibility: Euroa Club Protest Dismissed by Council: Match Awarded to Longwood, The Shepparton Advertiser, (Monday, 13 October 1930), p.3.
• League Permits: Many Players Transfer, The Age, (Thursday, 9 April 1936), p.14.
• World War Two: Service Record (Militia): Jack Reginald Sambell (214673), National Archives of Australia.

External links

• • • Jack Sambell's profile at Demonwiki.
• Jack Sambell, at The VFA Project.

Notes and References

1. Web site: Jack Sambell - Player Bio. Australian Football. 30 December 2014.
2. Book: The Encyclopedia of AFL Footballers: every AFL/VFL player since 1897 . Holmesby. Russell. Main. Jim . 2009 . 8th . 978-1-921496-00-4 . BAS Publishing . Seaford, Victoria . 737.
3. http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article244113764 Deaths: Sambell, The Herald, (Friday, 23 June 1950), p.8.
4. https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=WqYQAAAAIBAJ&sjid=N5UDAAAAIBAJ&pg=7279%2C527824 Deaths: Sambell, The Age, (Tuesday, 4 June 1963), p.14.
5. http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article205288511 Deaths: Sambell, The Age, (Thursday, 23 January 1941), p.1.
6. http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article8229020 In Memoriam: Sambell, The Argus, (Thursday, 22 January 1942), p.2.
7. http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article203750717 Eastern Suburbs League, The Age, (Thursday, 12 May 1932), p.3.
8. Web site: 1932 - The Game . Trove . Gippsland Times (Vic) . 31 January 2021 . 6 . 19 September 1932.
9. Web site: 1932 - Yallourn football trophies . Trove . Weekly Times . 31 January 2021 . 62 . 5 November 1932.
10. http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article71559653 Yallourn News: News and Notes, Morwell Advertiser and Gazette, (Thursday, 16 February 1933), p.12.
11. Web site: 1933 - Yallourn losing Sambell . Trove . Weekly Times (Melbourne, Vic) . 31 January 2021 . 58 . 25 February 1933.
12. As of 1 January 1934 he was transferred to teach at Camberwell Central School No 888: Teachers' Transfers: To Class V (Males), The Argus, (Thursday, 16 November 1933), p.11.
13. https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=1iRVAAAAIBAJ&sjid=n5QDAAAAIBAJ&pg=5070%2C3244254 Deaths: Sambell, The Age, (Monday, 23 August 1982), p.18.