Australian Football

Jim Gosnell began his league career with West Perth in 1918. In 1919 he moved to Kalgoorlie Railways where he spent two years, returning to the Cardinals a much more accomplished all round player. He made his interstate debut for Western Australia in 1922, and went on to make a total of 15 state appearances. 

In 1924 he won the Sandover Medal. Highly proficient at all the defensive aspects of the game, Gosnell joined with fellow Sandover Medallists Harold Boyd and Jim Craig to give the Cardinals arguably the finest half back line in Australia at the time. He won West Perth’s fairest and best award in 1927, and captained the club the following year. In 1930 he returned to Kalgoorlie Railways where he rounded off his career in style by winning the Dillon Medal as the fairest and best player in the goldfields competition. Jim Gosnell was named on the interchange bench in West Perth’s official ‘Team of the Century’.

Author - John Devaney