Ivor Lawson

Australian rules footballer

Ivor Lawson

Personal information
Full name	John Ballantyne Lawson
Date of birth	(1883-05-02)2 May 1883
Place of birth	North Melbourne, Victoria
Date of death	2 December 1958(1958-12-02) (aged 75)
Place of death	North Melbourne, Victoria
Original team(s)	Williamstown (VFA)
Height	178 cm (5 ft 10 in)
Weight	73 kg (161 lb)
Playing career¹
Years	Club	Games (Goals)
1904	Collingwood	07 (2)
1905–1907	St Kilda	30 (1)
1908–1909	Richmond	32 (3)
Total		69 (6)
¹ Playing statistics correct to the end of 1909.
Career highlights
Richmond Captain 1909 (3 games)
Sources: AFL Tables, AustralianFootball.com

John Ballantyne "Ivor" Lawson (2 May 1883 – 2 December 1958)^[1] was an Australian rules footballer who played for the Collingwood Football Club in the VFL in 1904, for the St Kilda Football Club from 1905 to 1907 and then for the Richmond Football Club between 1908 and 1909.^[2]

Lawson captained Richmond on three occasions as the then Captain/Coach Dick Condon resigned the captaincy late in the season after pressure from the club's board to do so.

References

^ "Ivor Lawson". Collingwood Forever. Retrieved 4 September 2014.
^ Holmesby, Russell; Main, Jim (2014). The Encyclopedia of AFL Footballers: every AFL/VFL player since 1897 (10th ed.). Melbourne, Victoria: Bas Publishing. p. 477. ISBN 978-1-921496-32-5.