{{Short description|Australian rules footballer, coach and umpire}} {{for|the Australian cricketer|Jack Gardiner (cricketer)}} {{Use Australian English|date=January 2018}} {{Use dmy dates|date=December 2020}} {{Infobox AFL biography | name = Jack Gardiner | image = Jack Gardiner.jpg | image_size = 100 | alt = | caption = | fullname = John Carlton Gardiner | birth_date = 8 May 1881 | birth_place = [[Carlton, Victoria]] | death_date = {{death date and age|1967|4|3|1881|5|8|df=yes}} | death_place = [[Hobart]], Tasmania | originalteam = [[St Juke's Football Club|St Juke's]] | height = <!-- ### cm --> | weight = <!-- ### kg --> | position = Rover | statsend = 1908 | years1 = 1901–1902 | club1 = [[Carlton Football Club|Carlton]] | games_goals1 = 16 {{0}}(5) | years2 = 1903–1908 | club2 = [[Melbourne Football Club|Melbourne]] | games_goals2 = 70 (54) | years3 = 1909–1923 | club3 = [[Cananore Football Club|Cananore]] (TFL) | games_goals3 = | years4 = 1924–1925 | club4 = [[North Hobart Football Club|North Hobart]] (TFL) | games_goals4 = | games_goalstotal = 86 (59) | careerhighlights = }}

'''John Carlton Gardiner''' (8 May 1881 – 3 April 1967)<ref>{{cite web|url=http://australianfootball.com/players/player/Jack%2BGardiner/1494|title=Jack Gardiner - Player Bio|publisher=Australian Football|accessdate=13 December 2014}}</ref> was an [[Australian rules football]]er who played for [[Carlton Football Club|Carlton]] and [[Melbourne Football Club|Melbourne]] in the [[Australian Football League|Victorian Football League]] (VFL). He then became a successful coach in the [[Tasmanian Football League]].

==Family== The son of John Gardiner, and Anna Gardiner, née Sidley, John Carlton Gardiner was born on 8 May 1881.<ref>[https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/5966950 Births: Gardiner, ''The Argus'', (Wednesday, 11 May 1881), p.1.]</ref> Jack Gardiner was the third of four children in the family, with two older sisters and a younger brother, [[Vin Gardiner]].

He married Florence Bucirde (1883–1946), in Hobart, on 20 November 1911.<ref>[https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/202606702 Births: Bucirde, ''The Age'', (Tuesday, 11 September 1883), p.1.]</ref><ref>[https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/10124127 Marriages: Gardiner—Bucirde, ''The (Hobart) Mercury'', (Wednesday, 20 December 1911), p.1.]</ref><ref>[https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/26376217 Deaths: Gardiner, ''The (Hobart) Mercury'', (Monday, 30 December 1911), p.1.]</ref>

Jack Gardiner died in Hobart in 1967, and is buried at [[Cornelian Bay Cemetery]].<ref>[https://billiongraves.com/grave/John-Carlton-Gardiner/12805855 Billion Graves - John Carlton Gardiner]</ref>

==Football== Gardiner came from a football playing family with his father, John, a Carlton player during the 1870s. [[Vin Gardiner]], his younger brother, also played at both Melbourne and Carlton.

His VFL career, spent mostly as a rover, began with two seasons at his father's club before switching to Melbourne in 1903. He kicked 24 goals in 1904 and was a regular in the Melbourne side until 1907.

The rover spent the 1908 season in Tasmania, as an umpire and coach of the TFL representative team. He returned to the mainland to coach Tasmania at the [[1908 Melbourne Carnival]] and stopped umpiring after that year. [[File:Cananore Football Team (1923).jpeg|right|400px|thumb|The 1923 Cananore team. Jack Gardiner, the captain-coach (then aged 42), is at the far left.]] He resumed his playing career in 1909 when he joined [[Cananore Football Club|Cananore]] as captain. His tenure included four TFL premierships, including three in a row from 1909 to 1911. Gardiner also captained the state at the [[1911 Adelaide Carnival]]. Appointed Cananore captain-coach following the war, he steered them to more premierships in 1921 and 1922. His final port of call was [[North Hobart Football Club|North Hobart]], with which he spent the 1924 and 1925 seasons at before retiring.

In 2005, Gardiner was one of the inaugural inductees into the [[Tasmanian Football Hall of Fame]].

His son, Jack Jr, also played football and represented Tasmania as the state wicket-keeper in cricket.

==See also== * [[1908 Melbourne Carnival#Tasmania|1908 Melbourne Carnival]] * [[1911 Adelaide Carnival]]

==Footnotes== {{Reflist}}

==References== * Holmesby, Russell and Main, Jim (2007). ''The Encyclopedia of AFL Footballers''. 7th ed. Melbourne: Bas Publishing. * [http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article23693541 Jack Gardiner: His Splendid Football Career: A Brief Sketch, ''The Mercury'', (Friday, 24 August 1923), p.10.]

==External links== {{Commons category}} * {{AFL Tables | J/Jack_Gardiner }} * {{AustralianFootball | jack+gardiner/1494 }} * [http://www.blueseum.org/tiki-index.php?page=Jack+Gardiner Blueseum: Jack Gardiner] * [http://www.demonwiki.org/Jack+Gardiner Jack Gardiner] at Demonwiki.

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