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Mr Ashton grew up with Portarlington since he was a boy, but one player stuck out to him the most out of them all.<\/p>\n
Jack Manson sits on the Mount Rushmore of Portarlington’s best; a three-time league best and fairest from 1931-1933 and served as captain-coach during Portarlington’s 1947 premiership year.<\/p>\n
“He was certainly one person that springs to mind for me, just such an important figure during those years at the Demons,” Mr Ashton said.<\/p>\n
“He also coached some of the juniors at the time, and for him to do what he did at that time, was almost unheard of, doing research on him was definitely up there with one of my favourite parts of this book.”<\/p>\n
Manson was also named the Portarlington Football Club’s captain of its Sesquicentennial Team, which is (playing) coached by 1980-82 Demons captain-coach George Bisset.<\/p>\n
The book, made up of 520 copies in the first release, is available for purchase at the Portarlington Post Office for $60 with all proceeds to be diverted back into the club to offset costs for producing the book.<\/p>\n
Mr Ashton and Mr Wilkinson thanked the club’s History Committee and researcher Liam Detering, Deakin professor Tony Joel, and sports historian John Hay for their efforts and support.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
OVER four years of work and research has culminated into a 190-page document encapsulating the history of the Portarlington Football Club on the eve of its 150th year celebration. From the club’s formation in 1874 to the role it played during both World Wars, and then its eventual move into the Bellarine & District Football […]<\/p>\n