Colin Watson was one of our greatest players during the 1920's and early 1930's. He had many days of glory as it were, in fact he was the Brownlow Medal winner in 1925, but he had one day in particular in an Interstate match, a game against Western Australia during the 1924 Hobart Carnival that is almost too unbelievable to be true, but it happened, and that is our story.

To understand the circumstances we must turn aside from our tale for a moment. Western Australia had won the 1921 Carnival in Perth and were confident of repeating the dose at the Hobart Carnival.

Included in the Western Australia side was ... Jack 'Snowy' Hamilton... 'Snowy' was regarded by many in both South Australia and Western Australia as the greatest player of all time...

This then was the player Victoria had the most to fear when they met the Westerners in the championship match at the carnival. It was Colin Watson that the Victorians pinned their hopes of curbing Jack Hamilton's brilliance.

How Colin Watson did this is now football history. He beat him for the ball, he out-marked him, he out-played him, and he out-thought him. Indeed Jack Hamilton was so badly beaten that he did not get one kick for the entire game and Victoria went on to win the match and with it the championship.

Phil Matson, the Western Australia coach said after the match to Jack Hamilton "We would have won the game Jack had you got just one kick". What a wonderful tribute that statement was to Colin Watson to keep such an opponent kickless for 100 minutes of play...

Extract from The Football Record, June 24, 1978 submitted by Peter Watson 12 May 2003