Mick Cronin (footballer)
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| Full name | Deverick John Cronin | ||
| Date of birth | 18 March 1911 | ||
| Place of birth | Wagin, Western Australia | ||
| Date of death | 1 September 1979 (aged 68) | ||
| Place of death | Perth, Western Australia | ||
| Position(s) | Centre | ||
| Playing career1 | |||
| Years | Club | Games (Goals) | |
| 1930–1941 | East Perth | 164 (121) | |
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| Years | Team | Games (Goals) | |
| 1933–1938 | Western Australia | 12 (9) | |
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| Years | Club | Games (W–L–D) | |
| 1939, 1941, 1951–55 | East Perth | ||
| 1951 | Western Australia | 1 (0–1–0) | |
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1 Playing statistics correct to the end of 1941.
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| Source: AustralianFootball.com | |||
Deverick John 'Mick' Cronin (18 March 1911 – 1 September 1979) was an Australian rules football player, umpire and television commentator in Western Australia.
He was the son of native-born parents Michael Henry Cronin, farmer, and his wife Nellie Agatha, née Dawson. Although of Methodist background, Mick completed his primary education at a convent-run boarding-school at Toodyay, then worked as a delivery-boy and as an apprentice to a butcher at Harvey.
In 1930 he was recruited by East Perth Football Club which found him a job with a grocer in Perth. Cronin was later employed at Whitty's lottery agency and at Boans Ltd department store. In the 1930s he was also a middle-order batsman with the Subiaco Cricket Club.
On 6 April 1940 Cronin had married a stenographer Roma Chipper at St Andrew's Presbyterian Church, Perth. That year he opened a confectionery shop at the Hurlingham Picture Theatre, South Perth.
Mobilized in the Citizen Military Forces in January 1942, he served at home in the Australian Imperial Force for the duration of the war, engaged mostly in anti-aircraft activities. He was discharged with the rank of sergeant in October 1945, after which he ran snack shops in central Perth.
He was a successful agent for the Scottish Amicable Insurance Co. in 1966–79.
A man of natural wit and bubbly charm, sincere, honest and forthright in his manner, Cronin was popular in sporting circles and esteemed for his community work. He was a Freemason, and a lifelong non-smoker and teetotaller; he enjoyed punting on the horses and liked a game of golf. Cronin died suddenly of a ruptured aortic aneurysm on 1 September 1979 at Royal Perth Hospital and was cremated; his wife and son survived him.
He played 164 games for East Perth from 1930–41 winning the club's fairest and best award in 1931.
In 1936 Cronin was made Captain – a role he would hold until the end of the 1940 season.
A forceful, energetically dynamic performer, Cronin was just as much at home on the half forward line as in the centre, and it was as a half forward flanker that he represented the Royals in their winning grand final team of 1936.
Cronin earned his first Western Australia cap against South Australia in 1933 after being selected as part of the squad for the Sydney Carnival and went on to play 12 games for his state.
He was then at the peak of his form during the 1937 interstate football carnival in Perth when he put in two near best on ground performances in helping Western Australia to annihilate South Australia by 19 goals, and get to within 8 points of an all powerful 'Big V' combination. His performance earned him the inaugural Tassie Medal.
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