1939 the Claremont Football Club photo of S. Headon on Claremont Oval.
HEADON, Stanley Albert Played 94 games between 1936 to 1945.
Headon made his league debut with Sturt in 1931 and began to come in his own during the 1933 season. In 1936, after playing 63 games and kicking 30 goals for the Double Blues, as well as representing South Australia once, he was cleared to Claremont.
By 1937, however, Headon, playing as a dashingly energetic half back flanker, was producing the best football of his career, earning selection in the state team for the Perth carnival, and ultimately running third in the voting for the Sandover Medal as well as winning his club’s fairest and best award. He was on the half back line in that year’s losing Grand Final against East Fremantle, as indeed he had been the previous year against East Perth. In 1938 and 1939 he was a key contributor to Claremont’s first two senior flags.
Between 1942 and 1944, senior football in the WANFL was suspended, but Headon resumed for one last season in 1945 to take his final tally of league games with the Monts to 94.
These photos were put in album by player Jack Reeves and handed to his daughter
