Australian Football

Along with Jim Gosnell and Harold Boyd, Jim Craig gave the West Perth teams in which he played during the 1920s one of the strongest half back lines in Western Australian football history. All three players won Sandover Medals, and were regular interstate representatives. Craig won his Medal in 1927, and played for Western Australia 17 times, including games at the 1924 Hobart and 1927 Melbourne carnivals. 

At his best he was well nigh impassable at centre half back, and it is therefore somewhat surprising to note that the nearest he got to playing in a premiership side was his membership of the Cardinals’ losing Grand Final team of 1922. Craig captained West Perth for part of the 1928 season, and again in 1930. He played a total of 203 league games. In October 2000, he was included in his club’s official ‘Team of the Century’.

Author - John Devaney