Tony Clarkson (footballer)

Dr Tony Clarkson AM (13 August 1939 – 25 January 2011) was an Australian rules footballer who played with Sturt in the South Australian National Football League (SANFL).^[1]

Tony Clarkson
Personal information
Full name	Anthony Russell Clarkson
Nickname	Doc
Born	(1939-08-13)13 August 1939 Adelaide, South Australia
Died	25 January 2011(2011-01-25) (aged 71) Adelaide, South Australia
Original team	Adelaide University
Height	194 cm (6 ft 4 in)
Weight	82 kg (181 lb)
Position	Ruck
Other occupation	Doctor
Playing career1
Years	Club	Games (Goals)
1959, 1964–1968	Sturt (SANFL)	110 (106)
1 Playing statistics correct to the end of 1968.
Career highlights
6 games for South Australia 2x Sturt Best and Fairest 1965, 1967 3x Sturt Premiership player 1966, 1967, 1968 Sturt Football Club Hall of Fame Inductee 2006

Following his football career, Clarkson became a highly regarded name in medicine as a founding director of the Renal Unit at the Royal Adelaide Hospital and president of the Medical Board of South Australia.^[2] In The Queen's Birthday 2004 Honours List, he was awarded Member of the Order of Australia "For service to renal medicine, particularly as a contributor to the advancement of the specialty of nephrology in the Asia-Pacific region through clinical research, teaching and professional organisations, and to the community."^[3]