David_Clarke_(Australian_footballer,_born_1952)

David Clarke Sr.

David Clarke Sr.

Australian rules footballer, born 1952

This article is about the Australian footballer, born 1952. For his son, the Australian footballer, born 1980, see David Clarke (Australian footballer, born 1980). For other uses, see David Clarke (disambiguation).

David E. Clarke (born 31 December 1952) is a former Australian rules footballer with Victorian Football League (VFL) clubs Geelong and Carlton. Better known as a half-forward flanker Clarke also played in the centre and centre half-back.

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Clarke won Geelong's Best and Fairest three times and was runner-up four times.

Clarke was a director of the failed Geelong based Pyramid Building Society, which collapsed in 1990 with debts of A$2 billion. He was charged with 13 breaches of the Building Societies Act and was given a two-year suspended jail sentence and fined $47,000 after pleading guilty.[1]

Clarke's sons David and Tim played in the Australian Football League (AFL) and daughter Georgina competed at the 2000 Summer Olympics in Sydney as a 16-year-old, semi-finalist in the Women's 1500m.

References

  1. [1]
    Begg, Peter (25 June 2010). "PYRAMID 20 YEARS ON: Too much water under bridge, says Clarke".


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