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Clarence Adair Swenson (23 May 1923 – 28 January 2003) was an
Australian rules football Australian football, also called Australian rules football or Aussie rules, or more simply football or footy, is a contact sport played between two teams of 18 players on an Australian rules football playing field, oval field, often a modified ...
er who played with Collingwood and Hawthorn in the
Victorian Football League The Victorian Football League (VFL) is an Australian rules football competition in Australia operated by the Australian Football League (AFL) as a second-tier, regional, semi-professional competition. It includes teams from clubs based in east ...
(VFL). Swenson came into the Collingwood team from the juniors and made one appearance in the
1941 VFL season The 1941 VFL season was the 45th season of the Victorian Football League (VFL), the highest level senior Australian rules football competition in Victoria. The season featured twelve clubs, ran from 26 April until 27 September, and comprised an ...
.AFL Tables: Clarrie Swenson
/ref> He didn't play for the club again until 1946, due to his war service. In 1947 he crossed to Hawthorn, when he spent three seasons. He was captain-coach of Trafalgar from 1950 to 1954. Swenson won the 1950 Central Gippsland Football League best and fairest award, the Rodda Medal, Runner up 1951


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{{DEFAULTSORT:Swenson, Clarrie Adair 1923 births Australian rules footballers from Victoria (state) Collingwood Football Club players Hawthorn Football Club players 2003 deaths 20th-century Australian sportsmen