1936 Stan Headon in Bunbury with the Claremont Football Club. Country trips were a feature of the Club’s program and in 1936 the team travelled to Bunbury to take on a Southwest team. After the match, an extensive drinking session took place at the Gordons Hotel, where they were being accommodated. dressed up for the session was Stan Headon.
Headon made his league debut with Sturt in 1931, and, in 1936, after playing 63 games and kicking 30 goals for the Double Blues, as well as representing South Australia once, he was cleared to Claremont where he became a key member of the side.
By 1937, Headon, playing as a dashingly energetic half back flanker, was producing the best football of his career, earning selection in the state team for the Perth carnival, and ultimately running third in the voting for the Sandover Medal as well as winning his club’s fairest and best award. He was on the half back line in that year’s losing Grand Final against East Fremantle, as indeed he had been the previous year against East Perth. In 1938 and 1939 he was a key contributor to Claremont’s first two senior flags.
Between 1942 and 1944, senior football in the WANFL was suspended, but Headon resumed for one last season in 1945 to take his final tally of league games with the Monts to 94.
Played 94 games between 1936 to 1945
