Syd Coventry

Syd Coventry
Syd Coventry
Personal information
Full name	Sydney Alfred Coventry
Date of birth	13 June 1899
Place of birth	Greensborough, Victoria
Date of death	10 November 1976 (aged 77)
Place of death	Fairfield, Victoria
Original team(s)	Diamond Creek Football Club
Height	182 cm (6 ft 0 in)
Weight	86 kg (190 lb)
Playing career1
Years	Club
1922–1934	Collingwood
Representative team honours
Years	Team
1922–1934	Victoria
Coaching career3
Years	Club
1935–1937	Footscray
	1 Playing statistics correct to the end of 1934. 3 Coaching statistics correct as of 1937.
Career highlights
	Collingwood premiership captain 1927, 1928, 1929, 1930; Minor premier 1925, 1926, 1927, 1928, 1929, 1930; Collingwood Team of the Century, captain; Brownlow Medal 1927; Collingwood captain 1927–1934; Copeland Trophy 1927, 1932; Australian Football Hall of Fame 1996; Sport Australia Hall of Fame Awards 2002 (1929 team); Victorian captain – 1927, 1930, 1933;
	Sources: AFL Tables, AustralianFootball.com

Sydney Alfred Coventry (13 June 1899 – 10 November 1976) was an Australian rules football player, coach and administrator.^[1]^[2] He played for Collingwood in the Victorian Football League (VFL) and also coached Footscray in the VFL.

In 1969, the Collingwood Football Club named the newly built social club stand at Victoria Park the S. A. Coventry Pavilion. In 1992, the Melbourne Cricket Club named Gate 7 after Coventry (and his brother) as part of the Great Southern Stand development at the Melbourne Cricket Ground. In 1996, Coventry was inducted into the first batch of players and officials in the Australian Football Hall of Fame. In 2016, Coventry was named by Sam Walker of The Wall Street Journal as one of the 16 best captains in sport history.^[3]

^ Holmesby, Russell; Main, Jim (2009). The Encyclopedia of AFL Footballers: every AFL/VFL player since 1897 (8th ed.). Seaford, Victoria: BAS Publishing. ISBN 978-1-921496-00-4.
^ "Coventry, Sydney Alfred (Syd) (1899–1976)". Sydney Andrew Coventry. Australian Dictionary of Biography, Australian National University.
^ "Machine named among world's best ever sporting teams". Collingwood Forever. Retrieved 11 October 2023.

[encyc-1] Holmesby, Russell; Main, Jim (2009). The Encyclopedia of AFL Footballers: every AFL/VFL player since 1897 (8th ed.). Seaford, Victoria: BAS Publishing. ISBN 978-1-921496-00-4.

[2] "Coventry, Sydney Alfred (Syd) (1899–1976)". Sydney Andrew Coventry. Australian Dictionary of Biography, Australian National University.

[3] "Machine named among world's best ever sporting teams". Collingwood Forever. Retrieved 11 October 2023.

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