Trevor Gyss

Another entry in the author's monumental overview of South Australian football. While Gyss needs to be thanked for his work on South Australian football history, this edition seems somewhat light on. Sure, 1945 was a light-on season but for a 68 page book, I'm sure it could have been squeezed into half without too many troubles.

West Torrens were 1945 premiers, although Port Adelaide were far and away the best team throughout the season. Port also had the legend Bob Quinn win his second Magarey Medal and a certain Haydn Bunton as a useful recruit. Additionally, there are lots of little factual nuggets, such as Jack Wilkinson's 14 goals in his first two matches in South Australia before injuring his knee.… (meer)

"1942-44 World War II South Australian Football Seasons Report" is part of a series by football historian Gyss covering South Australian football seasons (be it the South Australian National Football League or any of its predecessors). There have been many football historians who have hailed Gyss for his work on this series and the information he brings to "1942-44 ..." can be found nowhere else in one place.

Of course, South Australian football stats from distant days past is not a big seller and Gyss has self-published this (as with all his reports in this series) through Lulu, and while I have no problem with self-publishing, there were a few times when I wished a professional could have laid out the book. While the book runs to 88 pages it could have been squeezed into half the pages without diminishing the look and feel.

Layout aside, this is a great resource for South Australian football historians, full of wonderful nuggets of useless information like "Arthur Lance and 'Bo' Morton met in Jisi a small town north of Florence in Italy" in 1944.… (meer)