|
 John
Marriott was a superb
knock ruckman -
or, more accurately,
tap ruckman - in
176 league games
for Norwood between
1947 and 1956. According
to Jeff Pash, the
essence of his game
was its paradoxical
gentleness. Marriott
was the gentle strong
man.
Highly regarded
wherever football
was played throughout
Australia, Marriott
was a popular winner
of the 1951 Magarey
Medal. A South Australian
interstate representative
on no fewer than
23 occasions, he
earned an All Australian
blazer after the
1953 Adelaide carnival.
He won Norwood's
premier individual
award in 1949, 1951
and 1955, and both
the Advertiser and
News-Ampol Trophies
in 1951, and had
he not elected to
retire prematurely
in order to concentrate
on his career as
a dentist he might
feasibly have been
expected to have
carved out a name
for himself among
the game's bona
fide immortals.
As it is, the name
John Marriott remains
synonymous with
highly adept and
telling ruckwork
of the highest order.
Hardly surprisingly,
John Marriott was
chosen to lead the
first ruck in Norwood's
official 'Team of
the Twentieth Century'.
*Courtesy
of John Devaney
at www.fullpointsfooty.net
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