David E. Clarke

For other uses, see David Clarke (disambiguation).

David Clarke
Personal information
Date of birth	(1952-12-31) 31 December 1952
Original team(s)	Geelong College
Debut	Round 1, 3 April 1971, Geelong v. St Kilda, at Kardinia Park
Playing career1
Years	Club	Games (Goals)
1971–1981 1982 Total	Geelong Carlton	202 (298) 009 0(21) 211 (319)
1 Playing statistics correct to the end of 1982 season.
Career highlights
Geelong Best and Fairest 1971, 1978, 1979 Geelong leading goalkicker 1979 Victorian State representative 14 times All Australian 1972

David E. Clarke (born 31 December 1952) is a former Australian rules footballer with the Geelong Football Club. Better known as a half-forward flanker he also played in the centre and centre half-back. He won the club Best and Fairest three times and was runner-up four times.

Clarke was a director of the failed Geelong based Pyramid Building Society, which collapsed in 1990 with debts of A$2 billion. He was charged with 13 breaches of the Building Societies Act and was given a two-year suspended jail sentence and fined $47,000 after pleading guilty.

External links

• David E. Clarke's statistics from AFL Tables
• David E. Clarke's profile from AustralianFootball.com

Notable relatives

• David A. Clarke (son) – ex-Geelong and Carlton player.
• Tim Clarke (son) – ex-Hawthorn player
• Georgina Clarke (daughter) – Middle distance runner, competed at the 2000 Summer Olympics in Sydney as a 16-year-old, semi-finalist in the Women's 1500m.