Cyril Hoft

Cyril Hoft
Personal information
Full name	Cyril Louis Hoft
Date of birth	October 1897
Place of birth	Perth, Western Australia
Date of death	unknown
Height/Weight	177 cm / 63 kg[1]
Position(s)	Wing
Playing career1
Years	Club	Games (Goals)
1914 1915–16; 1919–23; 1928 1924–27	North Fremantle Perth Glenelg Total	11 (?) 88 (?) 56 (?) 155 (?)
Representative team honours
Years	Team	Games (Goals)
1921; 1923	Western Australia	3 (1)
1 Playing statistics to end of 1928 season .
Career highlights
Sandover Medal 1921 Western Australia representative team 1921, 1923 Glenelg captain 1924 Glenelg best and fairest 1924 Glenelg captain-coach 1925 South Australia representative team 1924, 1927

Pte. Cyril Louis Hoft (born October 1897 in Perth, Western Australia; date and place of death unknown) was an Australian soldier and Australian rules footballer who played for North Fremantle and Perth in the West Australian Football League (WAFL) and Glenelg in the South Australian Football League (SAFL). He was the inaugural winner of the Sandover Medal, along with Tom Outridge.

Career

Hoft played eleven games for North Fremantle in 1914, before switching to Perth for the 1915 season.^[2]

Hoft enlisted in the 44 Infantry Battalion in June 1916, serving in Europe during the war.^[3] He also participated in the "Pioneer Exhibition Game" in October 1916, an exhibition match in benefit of the war organised by Frank Beaurepaire.^[4]

He resumed his league career with Perth in 1919. In 1921, Hoft finished equal on votes with Subiaco's Tom Outridge in the inaugural Sandover Medal. As was customary at the time, the WAFL president had the deciding vote, which he gave to Outridge. In 1997, Hoft, along with other players that had finished equal on votes but lost on countback, was awarded a retrospective medal. Hoft represented Western Australia in the 1921 Perth Carnival.^[2]

In 1924, Hoft switched to Glenelg in the SAFL. Standing out in a team that had yet to win a match, Hoft was appointed captain two rounds into the season, and won the club's best and fairest in 1924, also representing South Australia at the 1924 Hobart Carnival. He was appointed captain-coach in 1925, and guided the club to its first ever win, against reigning premiers West Torrens. Hoft returned to Perth in 1928, playing one final season.^[2]

References

1. ^ Cyril Hoft – Snouts Louts. Retrieved 28 August 2011.
2. ^ ^{a b c} Cyril Hoft – FullPointsFooty. Retrieved 28 August 2011.
3. ^ Cyril Louis Hoft - First World War Embarkation Roll – awm.gov.au. Retrieved 28 August 2011.
4. ^ The Pioneer Exhibition Game – spiritus-temporis.com. Retrieved 28 August 2011.