Merv Agars

Merv Agars
Personal information
Full name Mervyn Stanley Agars[1]
Date of birth (1925-06-12)12 June 1925
Place of birth Elliston, South Australia
Date of death 8 August 2017(2017-08-08) (aged 92)
Place of death Nuriootpa, South Australia
Original team(s) Prince Alfred College
Height 186 cm (6 ft 1 in)[2]
Weight 76 kg (168 lb)[2]
Position(s) Follower[2]
Playing career
Years Club Games (Goals)
1946–1952 West Adelaide 106 (92)
Representative team honours
Years Team Games (Goals)
1948-1950s South Australia 8
Career highlights
Source: AustralianFootball.com

Mervyn Stanley Agars (12 June 1925 – 8 August 2017) was an Australian rules footballer and journalist. He played with West Adelaide in the South Australian National Football League (SANFL). An eight-time state representative, Agars went on to have a significant career in sports journalism and in 2002 was inducted into the South Australian Football Hall of Fame.[3] In 2018, Agars was posthumously inducted into the SA Media Awards Hall of Fame.

  1. ^ "World War Two Nominal Roll". Government of Australia. Retrieved 16 February 2017.
  2. ^ a b c "Who's Who With South Aussies". Call. Western Australia. 11 August 1949. p. 6. Retrieved 17 February 2017 – via National Library of Australia.
  3. ^ "Merv S Agars". Official website of the SANFL. Retrieved 17 February 2017.