Australian Football

Although Hugh Guthrie's league career was comparatively brief - 69 games for Claremont between 1937 and 1941 - he did manage to accomplish the two things that rank highest on nearly every footballer's wish list: play in a premiership team, in 1940, and win a club fairest and best award, the following year. Most of Guthrie's football, including the victorious 1940 Grand Final against South Fremantle, was played as a half back flanker. He was unfortunate that Western Australia did not play any interstate games in 1940 and 1941 because his form in both years was certainly good enough to have attracted the attention of the state selectors.

Author - John Devaney