Gerry Beare
Personal information
Full name George Gerald Beare
Date of birth (1905-07-03)3 July 1905
Place of birth Lauriston, Victoria
Date of death 28 September 1983(1983-09-28) (aged 78)
Place of death Bendigo, Victoria
Original team(s) Rochester
Height 177 cm (5 ft 10 in)
Weight 73 kg (161 lb)
Position(s) back pocket, back flank
Playing career
Years Club Games (Goals)
1922 Xavier College
1923 Rochester
1924 Richmond
1924 Stawell & Richmond 2 (0)
1925 Pt Fairy
1926 Sth Ballarat
1927 Watchem
1928 Melbourne & Kyneton 2 (Melb)
1929 Sth Ballarat
1930 Daylesford
Career highlights
  • Premiership captain-coach 1925,1926,1927,1928,1931,1932;
  • Runners-Up 1929,1934,
  • League Best & Fairest 1927,
  • VFL senior games 4, Seconds games (Richmond) 46 in 1924,1926-27, 1930
  • Best on Ground Ballarat League Team v Subiaco (WA) 1930,
Sources: AFL Tables, AustralianFootball.com

George Gerald Beare (3 July 1905 – 28 September 1983) was an Australian rules footballer who played with Richmond and Melbourne in the Victorian Football League (VFL).[1] Between his two VFL stints he played for South Ballarat,[2] and after leaving Melbourne he played for Kyneton.[3]

Beare was described as an "Old Xavier College boy" when he signed with Richmond from Rochester in 1924.[4]

Beare coached Sale Football Club in 1931.[5] Beare then coached Kyneton CYMS in 1932, Griffith (NSW) in 1933, Sorrento in 1934, Kyneton in 1935, Fitzroy seconds in 1936, Yeronga (Brisbane) in 1937 and 1938, Old Xaverians (amateurs) in 1946 and Collegians (amateurs) in 1952.[6]

Notes

  1. ↑ Holmesby, Russell; Main, Jim (2009). The Encyclopedia of AFL Footballers: every AFL/VFL player since 1897 (8th ed.). Seaford, Victoria: BAS Publishing. p. 54. ISBN 978-1-921496-00-4.
  2. ↑ "Round 2, 1928". Football Record. 28 April 1928. p. 26. Retrieved 5 August 2015.
  3. ↑ "Round 12, 1928". Football Record. 7 July 1928. p. 25. Retrieved 5 August 2015.
  4. ↑ "Inter-State Permits". The Age. 8 May 1924.
  5. ↑ "1931 - G Beare appointed coach". Gippsland Times. Gippsland Times (Vic). 27 April 1931. p. 4. Retrieved 26 March 2021.
  6. ↑ "Richmond Football Club history: Garry Beare". Tigerland Archive.


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