Cliff Taylor (Australian footballer)


Herbert Clifford "Cliff" Taylor was an Australian rules footballer who played with Geelong in the Victorian Football League. He was also known as Beau Taylor.

Career

Geelong

Taylor, who arrived from Newtown in 1933, was a fullback in the Geelong second's 1937 premiership team.
He got his chance in the senior side in 1938, when he made 10 appearances.

Tasmania

In 1940 he began playing for North Hobart. He was a member of North Hobart's 1940 and 1941 Tasmanian State Premierships.
Appointed coach of New Norfolk in 1945, Taylor led the club to a Southern District Association premiership in his first season. He was captain-coach again in 1946 and the following year New Norfolk were admitted into the Tasmanian Australian National Football League, but they went for former Fitzroy player Arthur Edwards as coach. He did however act as caretaker coach in the 1952 TANFL season, when regular coach Arthur Olliver had to stand down as his wife was ill.

Family

He was the father of former Hawthorn player Noel Taylor and grandfather of Jason Taylor, who played for three AFL clubs.