Past Player of the Week – Bert Renfrey

Bert Renfrey reached the top levels of Australian football in an extraordinary career that embraced seven senior clubs and four states.  He represented South Australia 11 times and captained the invincible 1911 Carnival team that whipped Victoria by 43 points in Adelaide.

Twice runner-up in the Stawell Gift, Bert was a strapping athlete who always played his football hard and fair.  He was aged just 17 on debut with an unsettled Norwood in 1896, when he is also credited with one goal*, and then played two seasons with North Adelaide.  In 1899 he joined his older brother, Len, at Norwood in the opening game of the season against West Torrens at the Jubilee Oval on 13 May. Almost immediately Bert earned selection on the full back line of the SA team which lost to Victoria by 34 points at the MCG on 1 July.

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