1939 at Claremont Football Club, Stan Headon and Jack Reeves
Stan Headon played 94 games for Claremont between 1936 to 1945. He made his league debut with Sturt in 1931 and began to come in his own during the 1933 season. In 1936, after playing 63 games and kicking 30 goals for the Double Blues he was cleared to Claremont. By 1937, however, 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.
REEVES, Edward John (Jack) – Played 96 games for Claremont between 1936 and 1946
Jack Reeves, not a tall ruckman by today’s standards, was a lion- hearted toiler who always seem to leave his best games for those when most was at steak in the team. In the 1940 Grand Final Jack despite his failing eyesight, led the ruck and the team in an outstanding display of courage and skill. ‘Jack’ Reeves went on to become a fine ruckman for Claremont in 96 WANFL games between 1936 and 1941 and in 1946. He was a key member of the Monts’ three successive Grand Final-winning teams from 1938 to 1940, overcoming eyesight problems to produce displays of consummate courage and skill when it mattered most. Played 96 games for Claremont between 1936 and 1946.
These photographs were kept by Jack Reeves and passed down to his daughter Jan.
