The Sandover Medal is an Australian Rules Football award, given annually since 1921 to the best and fairest player in the Western Australian Football League. Jump to: navigation, search Australian Football at the Melbourne Cricket Ground. ... Jump to: navigation, search 1921 was a common year starting on Saturday (see link for calendar). ... A bloodied Haydn Bunton Junior celebrates Swan Districts first Grand Final win, in 1961. ...
Subiaco midfielder Matt Priddis is the toast of WA football after being crowned the winner of the 2006 SandoverMedal at Burswood last night.
Priddis is the 98th recipient of the medal and will have his name etched in history along some of the most recent winners when an engraved paver is laid in his honour along Haydn Bunton Drive on SandoverMedal Walk in Subiaco tomorrow.
The awarding of the SandoverMedal has been a prestigious occasion where the honour of being the fairest and best player has been bestowed on one of the West Australian Football Leagueâs greats since 1921.
SANDOVER, ALFRED (1866-1958), hardware merchant and benefactor, was born on 24 November 1866 at Plymouth, Devon, England, youngest of five children of William Sandover, a hotelkeeper who became a politician, and his wife Mary Billing, née Bate.
William Sandover & Co. expanded rapidly after the opening of the Coolgardie and Kalgoorlie goldfields in the 1890s; the firm was described as 'brimful of all the latest ideas in machinery, mining, agricultural and domestic requisites'.
In 1923 Sandovers Ltd acquired the Perth branch of the Adelaide company, G. Harris, Scarfe & Co., and registered it as Harris, Scarfe & Sandovers Ltd. Alfred was appointed chairman; he was to retain the position until he retired in 1957 at the age of 90.
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