Roy Bent

Roy Bent
Personal information
Full name	Roy Edward Kimberley Bent
Nickname(s)	Cool Alec
Date of birth	1900
Place of birth	Broken Hill, New South Wales
Date of death	7 October 1975 (aged 75)
Place of death	Mount Gambier, South Australia
Original team(s)	North Broken Hill[1]
Position(s)	Full Forward
Playing career^1
Years	Club	Games (Goals)
1921 – 1928	Norwood	98 (333)
Representative team honours
Years	Team	Games (Goals)
	South Australia	17 (60)
^1 Playing statistics correct to the end of 1928.
Career highlights
2x Norwood premiership player (1922, 1925) 4x SANFL leading goal kicker (1921, 1924, 1925, 1926) 5x Norwood leading goalkicker

Roy Bent (1900 – 7 October 1975) was an Australian rules footballer who played with the Norwood Football Club in the South Australian Football Association. He was the competitions leading goal kicker on four occasions 1921, 1924, 1925 and 1926. Late in the 1923 minor round Roy Bent was suspended for six matches for throwing the ball at a boundary umpire and 'bruising his chest'.^[2] Later in the year he was jokingly awarded a leather medal in remembrance of his suspension.^[3] He was killed in a car accident in 1975.^[2]

References

1. "Football.". Barrier Miner. Broken Hill, NSW: National Library of Australia. 20 July 1921. p. 3. Retrieved 20 June 2015.
2. "REDLEGS MUSEUM - PLAYERS". Redlegsmuseum.com.au. Retrieved 22 November 2014.
3. "Roy Edward Kimberley "Cool Alec" Bent 1900–1975 - McClimont - Cox Family Tree". Genes.mcclimont.id.au. Retrieved 22 November 2014.