Roy Bent

Roy Bent
Personal information
Full name Roy Edward Kimberley Bent
Nickname Cool Alec
Born 1900
Broken Hill, New South Wales
Died (aged 75)
Mount Gambier, South Australia
Original team North Broken Hill
Position Full Forward
Playing career1
Years Club Games (Goals)
1921 – 1928 Norwood 98 (333)
Representative team honours
Years Team Games (Goals)
South Australia 17 (60)
1 Playing statistics correct to the end of 1928.
Career highlights
  • 2x Norwood premiership player (1922, 1925)
  • 4x SANFL leading goal kicker (1921, 1924, 1925, 1926)
  • 5x Norwood leading goalkicker
Source: AustralianFootball.com

Roy Edward Kimberley "Alex" Bent (1900 – 7 October 1975) was an Australian rules footballer who played with the Norwood Football Club in the South Australian Football Association.

Family

The son of Christopher Bent (1863–1916), and Ellen Edith Bent (1868–1951), née Bird, Roy Edward Kimberley Bent was born at Broken Hill, New South Wales in 1900.

He married Muriel Helen Topham (1904–1974) on 15 February 1930.

Football

He was the competition's leading goal kicker on four occasions 1921, 1924, 1925 and 1926. In 1924, Bent became the first player to kick ten goals in a SAFL final when he kicked ten against West Torrens in the First Semi, a feat since emulated only by Rick Davies in 1983, Scott Hodges in 1990, and John Fidge in 1992.

Suspension before 1923 Grand Final

In September 1923 Bent was suspended for six matches for throwing the ball at a boundary umpire and "bruising his chest" — the boundary umpire had signalled that, as Bent raced down the boundary line towards the goal, the ball was out of bounds; Bent thought otherwise — in the match against South Adelaide on 8 September 1923. Upon a vigorous appeal, his suspension was later reduced to three weeks.

On 29 September 1923, on the day of the Grand Final (from which Bent had been suspended), Bent was jokingly awarded a leather medal, by a group called the "Wallaby Club Sympathisers", in remembrance of his suspension.

Death

He was killed in a car accident in 1975.

Notes

  1. ↑ "Football". Barrier Miner. Broken Hill, NSW: National Library of Australia. 20 July 1921. p. 3. Retrieved 20 June 2015.
  2. ↑ "In Memoriam: Bent". The Barrier Miner. 3 September 1917. p. 2.
  3. ↑ "Births Registration" (birth certificate). NSW Registry of Births, Deaths & Marriages. no.11234/1900.
  4. ↑ "Topham—Bent". Engagements. The Advertiser. 26 October 1929. p. 18.
  5. ↑ "Bent—Topham". Marriages. The Advertiser. 8 February 1930. p. 18.
  6. ↑ "Bent—Topham". Weddings. The News. Adelaide. 27 February 1930. p. 7.
  7. ↑ "Titanic Football Struggle: Norwood Beat the Minor Premiers – Magnificent Display by Both Teams; Bent Scores Ten Goals". The Advertiser. p. 21.
  8. ↑ spell_check (10 March 2006). "10 Goals or More in a Match". SANFL History Forum (Forum). safooty.net.
  9. 1 2 "Bent, Roy (1921–1928)". Redlegs Museum. Hall of Fame.
  10. ↑ "South Adelaide v. Norwood". The Mail. Adelaide. 8 September 1923. p. 7.
  11. ↑ "Bent Reported". The Mail. Adelaide. 8 September 1923. p. 7.
  12. ↑ "Norwood Player Reported: Bent out for Six Matches". The Register. Adelaide. 13 September 1923. p. 18.
  13. ↑ "The Case of Roy Bent". The Daily Herald. Adelaide. 15 September 1923. p. 4.
  14. ↑ "Bent's Suspension Reduced to Three Matches". The Daily Herald. Adelaide. 18 September 1923. p. 4.
  15. ↑ "Norwood's Hero: Bent Gets Leather Medal". The Mail. Adelaide. 29 September 1923. p. 8.