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),[2] and Ellen Edith Bent (1868-1951), née Bird, Roy Edward Kimberley Bent was born at Broken Hill, New South Wales in 1900.[3]
He married Muriel Helen Topham (1904-1974) on 15 February 1930.[4][5][6]
Football
He was the competition's leading goal kicker on four occasions 1921, 1924, 1925 and 1926.
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"[7] — 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[8][9] — in the match against South Adelaide on 8 September 1923.[10] Upon a vigorous appeal,[11] his suspension was later reduced to three weeks.[12]
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.[13]
Death
He was killed in a car accident in 1975.[7]
Notes
- ^ "Football". Barrier Miner. Broken Hill, NSW: National Library of Australia. 20 July 1921. p. 3. Retrieved 20 June 2015.
- ^ In Memoriam: Bent, The Barrier Miner, (Monday, 3 September 1917), p.2.
- ^ NSW Registry of Births, Deaths & Marriages: Births Registration no.11234/1900.
- ^ Engagements: Topham—Bent, The (Adelaide) Advertiser, (Saturday, 26 October 1929), p.18.
- ^ Marriages: Bent—Topham, The (Adelaide) Advertiser, (Saturday, 8 February 1930), p.18.
- ^ Weddings: Bent—Topham, The (Adelaide) News, (Thursday, 27 February 1930), p.7.
- ^ a b Redlegs Museum: Hall of Fame: Bent, Roy (1921-1928).
- ^ South Adelaide v. Norwood, The (Adelaide) Mail, (Saturday, 8 September 1923), p.7.
- ^ Bent Reported, The (Adelaide) Mail, (Saturday, 8 September 1923), p.7.
- ^ Norwood Player Reported: Bent out for Six Matches, The (Adelaide) Register, (Thursday, 13 September 1923), p.18.
- ^ The Case of Roy Bent, The (Adelaide) Daily Herald, (Saturday, 15 September 1923), p.4.
- ^ Bent's Suspension Reduced to Three Matches, The (Adelaide) Daily Herald, (Tuesday, 18 September 1923), p.4.
- ^ Norwood's Hero: Bent gets Leather Medal, The (Adelaide) Mail, (Saturday, 29 September 1923), p.8.
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