Jeff Pash (15 August 1916 – 22 April 2005) 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

North Adelaide North Adelaide is a predominantly residential precinct (Australia), precinct and suburb of the City of Adelaide in South Australia, situated north of the River Torrens and within the Adelaide Park Lands. Laid out in a grid plan in three section ...

in the

South Australian National Football League The South Australian National Football League, or SANFL ( or ''S-A-N-F-L''), is an Australian rules football league based in the Australian state of South Australia. It is also the state's sports governing body, governing body for the sport. ...

(SANFL). He is a half forward flanker in North Adelaide's official 'Team of the Century'. Pash made his North Adelaide debut in a game against

Port Adelaide Port Adelaide is a port-side region of Adelaide, approximately northwest of the Adelaide city centre, Adelaide CBD. It is also the namesake of the City of Port Adelaide Enfield council, a suburb, a federal and state electoral division and is t ...

in 1938, aged 21. He was the club's best and fairest winner that year and again the following season. In 1939 he was also a

Magarey Medal The Magarey Medal is an Australian rules football honour awarded annually since 1898 to the fairest and most brilliant player in the South Australian National Football League (SANFL), as judged by field umpires. The award was created by Willi ...

ist, tying with Ray McArthur from West Adelaide but winning after the umpires conferred. From 1941 to 1943 he was in

Port Augusta Port Augusta (''Goordnada'' in the revived indigenous Barngarla language) is a coastal city in South Australia about by road from the state capital, Adelaide. Most of the city is on the eastern shores of Spencer Gulf, immediately south of the ...

due to teaching commitments and didn't return to the club until 1944, although they had merged with

Norwood Football Club The Norwood Football Club, nicknamed the Redlegs, is an Australian rules football club competing in the South Australian National Football League (SANFL). Its home ground is Norwood Oval, Coopers Stadium (Norwood Oval), which is often referred ...

. He was a premiership player that season and when the war was over the merger ended. His last game of league football was in the

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against West Torrens which North Adelaide won by 23 points, thus ending a premiership drought for the club stretching back to 1931. He finished with a total of 137 games for North Adelaide and four for South Australia at interstate football. From 1950 to 1964 he was a respected football journalist for ''The Adelaide News''.

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Pash, Jeff 1916 births 2005 deaths North Adelaide Football Club players Magarey Medal winners Australian rules footballers from South Australia Australian sports journalists South Australian Football Hall of Fame inductees