page_title: Ted Terry
section_title: Cananore
hierarchical_section_title: Ted Terry / Cananore
caption_attribution_description: English: The 1923 Cananore Football Team. Edward Richard "Ted" Terry (1904-1967) is third from the right, and marked with an arrow.
context_page_description: Edward Richard Terry was an outstanding all-round Tasmanian schoolboy athlete.
  He was an accomplished professional sprinter, and he also played Australian rules football in Tasmania before moving to the mainland and playing with St Kilda in the VFL, and with Prahran in the Victorian Football Association.
context_section_description: Whilst still at school, in April 1922, he was also playing senior football as a wing-man with the Cananore Football Club first XVIII, in the Tasmanian Football League competition.
  The team was coached by ex-Carlton and ex-Melbourne player Jack Gardiner who was, no doubt, responsible for teaching Terry the secrets of the stab-pass, and the placement of long torpedo punts and long drop-kicks, that became so much a part of Terry's game.
  At that time, Cananore had somewhat of a reputation for selecting young players: Carlton's Fred Pringle played his first senior match with Cananore in 1920, aged 15, and would return to Cananore in 1925, and serve four years as Captain-Coach.
  On the verge of his selection for the first match of the season, Terry was described as a schoolboy champion, who had given sufficient proof of his ability for senior distinction, and of whom good things were expected. He played in the first match of the 1922, on 5 May, at the Hobart Cricket Ground. Cananore won the match 8.13 (61) to 7.13 (55). Three months into his first season, football writers were describing him as "fast and clever" and speaking of him in the same breath as his legendary teammate, the champion rover Horrie Gorringe.
  Terry played his last match for Cananore in the 1922 season on Saturday, 19 August, against North Hobart. He sustained a serious injury (a twisted knee) whilst playing school football for St Virgil's against Hutchins on Saturday, 26 August. As a consequence, was unable to play for either St. Virgil's or Cananore for the remainder of the 1922 season; and, therefore, he did not play for the Cananore first XVIII that won the 1922 TFL Grand Final, 9.12 (66) to North Hobart's 8.8 (56).
  On Saturday, 21 July 1923, he played for the Southern Tasmanian Football League, in its first inter-state match of the season against an Albury and District Football League team at the North Hobart Oval. The Tasmanian team won the match, 9.10 (64) to Albury's 7.15 (57).
  He played his last match for Cananore in an irregular, out-of-season match between Cananore and the season's premiers, North Hobart, at the North Hobart Oval, on Saturday, 6 October 1923, which Cananore won by two points, 8.7 (55) to 7.11 (53).
caption: The 1923 Cananore Football Team. Jack Gardiner, the captain-coach (then aged 42), is at the far left; Ted Terry (marked with arrow) is third from the right.
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