Sid White always said the 1922 premiership side, which he captained, was the best Norwood outfit of his time. Someone’s a good judge then, because more than 80 years on, no fewer than four of its members - Sid, Wat Scott, Tiger Potts and Ern Wadham - are in Norwood’s inaugural Hall of Fame.

Through the first half of the ‘20s, Sid was very much the leader of a highly successful Redlegs band, with a second, a third and three premierships, the last of which he also coached. His brilliant early career was compromised by inferior Norwood teams and then the Great War, yet Sid still managed to absorb enough about the game for him quickly to be regarded as a consummate tactician when the competition resumed in 1919.

He was also a coach’s dream, missing only 13 games through injury in 14 years. In an apparently seamless line of succession, Wat Scott took over most facets of Norwood’s on-field activity when Sid retired in 1925, to the point where Norwood’s roaring twenties became known as the White - Scott era. In 1923, at his peak, Sid was voted the man who had played the Australian game in the best interests of the grand winter pastime in SA that season.

Games: 145 Goals: 57
Premierships: 1922-23, 1925
Premiership captain-coach: 1925
Premiership captain: 1922-23
Captain: 1919, 1921-25 Club champion: 1913-14
Further honours: Norwood Player Life Member, Norwood Team of the Century, SANFL Hall of Fame, SA coach 1929, SA captain 1923, SA games 8

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