Sampson Hosking (4 January 1888 – 20 October 1974) was anAustralian rules footballer who played for thePort Adelaide Football Club in theSouth Australian Football League (SAFL). He was twice a recipient of theMagarey Medal, an individual award given in recognition of being the best and fairest player in the SAFL. After his playing career Hosking was also an accomplished football coach successfully leading Port Adelaide and theWest Torrens Football Club to a combined six premierships. In 1929 he was described in theRegister as "one of the most prominent figures in the game during the past 20 years. Combining exceptional pace with a football brain of rare fertility".[5]
Hosking began working at theGlanville Pipe Works (pictured) around the turn of the century[6]
Hosking was born on 4 January 1888 in Glanville, South Australia.[7] He was the son ofCornish immigrant James Hosking and Port Adelaide local Jane Hampton McKenzie.[8] Hosking grew up in close proximity to thePort River, living in Exmouth Street, Glanville.[9]
For his education Hosking went to the Le Fevre Peninsula School.[10] Around the age of twelve Hosking started working at the Glanville Pipe Works, alongside other family members, where he remained employed for 52 years.[6]
When Hosking was very young he dislocated his left elbow, leading his father James, out of an abundance of caution, to rule that his son should never play football.[1] To circumvent his father's ruling and ire, when Hosking played junior football with the Marist Brothers, and later theSemaphore Centrals, he did so under a false name.[1] The pseudonym that Hosking used during these early years was H. Sampson.[11] During his time at Semaphore Centrals his teammates often joked "who is this H. Sampson anyway?" and that "he is picked but never turns up!".[11] Hosking was part of the Semaphore Centrals team that lost theAdelaide and Suburban Football Association Grand Final to the Norwood Seconds in 1906.[12] Whilst at Semaphore Centrals Hosking purchased a short-brimmed hat, similar to that worn by an Adelaide comedian at the time known as Harry Shine, and was subsequently given the nickname "Shine" by his friends.[13][14]
Around this time Hosking was working alongsideTom Leahy who was already a league footballer and was trying to convince his younger co-worker to join him at his then club,West Adelaide.[1] Hosking did not tell his father about his football exploits until he was formally invited to play with Port Adelaide in 1907.[1] His father's caution was not unfounded as Hosking suffered shoulder injuries throughout his entire football career.[1] Whenever he played football Hosking preferred to wear a long-sleeved guernsey to hide his permanently taped left shoulder from opponents.[11]
Hosking made his senior debut for Port Adelaide in a win over Sturt onUnley Oval on 4 May 1907.[15] A couple weeks later during a gameLewis Corston, Port Adelaide's captain, physically kicked Hosking telling him to work harder and threatened him with being dropped from the side if he did not "get into the game a bit more".[1] This confrontation proved a lasting one in the memory of Hosking, who years later, recalled it as formative.[11] In his first season of league football Hosking played in the1907 SAFL Grand Final againstPort Adelaide's traditional rival Norwood.[16] That match was attended by a then-record crowd for football in South Australia with 25,000 spectators present atAdelaide Oval to witness Norwood win by 28 points.[16] Hosking was given a gold medal by Port Adelaide in recognition of being the "most improved junior" for his club in 1907.[17]
Hosking was named as one of Port Adelaide's best players in a 1908 post-season game againstEssendon on Adelaide Oval of which the visitors won by one goal.[18]
The third game of Port Adelaide's1909 SAFL season against Norwood was severely effected by rain and wind with only one goal scored, by Hosking, for the whole match, a goal which Roy Hill described as a "fluke".[14] On 19 July 1909 whilst at work Hosking was badly injured when a ladle of hot metal spilled on his legs and feet.[1] He was severely burned.[19] The injury prevented Hosking joining Port Adelaide's mid-season trip to Melbourne.[20] Hosking had recovered enough by the time the club returned from Victoria to take his place back in the side when they faced Sturt on 21 August.[21] Port Adelaide qualified for the1909 SAFL Grand Final and by this stage Hosking had largely recovered from his work injury and was playing relatively well, kicking a goal during the match, but it was not enough, with West Adelaide winning the premiership decider by 18 points.[22]
As a result ofLewis Corston retiring at the end of 1909, Hosking was given his role as Port Adelaide's centre for the1910 SAFA season.[1] It was during this season that Hosking won his firstMagarey Medal,[1] and his first South Australian league premiership as a player when Port Adelaide defeated Sturt (who were playing in their first championship match) by 19 points in the1910 SAFL Grand Final.[23] Hosking took part in an eventful post season with Port Adelaide in 1910 during which his club defeatedCollingwood for the1910 Championship of Australia title,[24] andWestern Australian Football League (WAFL) premiers East Fremantle in an exhibition match. Hosking and Port Adelaide also defeated a combination of some of the WAFL's best players in another match that year.[25]
In June 1912 Hosking was elected captain of the club by his teammates at Port Adelaide afterClifford Cocks stepped down from the role.[29] Port Adelaide went undefeated during the minor round that year, but stumbled at the final hurdle losing the1912 SAFL Grand Final toWest Adelaide by 14 points.
At the start of the1913 SAFL season Hosking vacated the Port Adelaide captaincy. During July Port Adelaide played a combination of players from the WAFL with Hosking's side winning by 39 points.[30] During the match Hosking went head-to-head withWilliam "Nipper" Truscott with theFremantle Herald observing that "Shine Hosking's work in the centre quite eclipsed our own Nipper".[31] The season proved to be more successful for Port Adelaide beginning with an undefeated run halfway through the minor round all the way to the end of the1913 SAFL Grand Final where the club beat North Adelaide by 14 points to claim the club's 7th premiership. In the post season Port Adelaide successfully challenged1913 VFL premiersFitzroy for the title ofChampions of Australia.
At the end of the1915 SAFL season, Hosking tied withFrank Barry andCharlie Perry for the Magarey Medal.[35] At the time a count back was used to determine a single winner with the award being presented to Frank Barry at the time.[35] However, in 1998 the SANFL issued retrospective Magarey Medals in the 10 instances where there was a tie.[35] As a result, Hosking is one of only three players to win multiple Magarey Medals for Port Adelaide with the others beingBob Quinn andRussell Ebert.[36]
During World War I the SAFL ceased scheduling football matches which led to some club officials, particularly those at Port Adelaide, to form theSouth Australian Patriotic Football League (SAPFL) which ran an independent competition in 1916, 1917 and 1918.[37] Hosking played a majority of games in all three of the SAPFL seasons.[37] After playing a dominant game in Port Adelaide's1916 SAPFL Grand Final victory, theSouth Australian Register noted that Hosking was "entitled to be recognised as the best player of the season in the association".[4] These games were never recognised by the SAFL.[37]
Despite having retired from playing after 1921, he played two matches in 1927, and in 1936 he became the oldest SANFL player when, at the age of 48 years and 154 days whilst Port Adelaide coach, he named himself on the bench in his side against West Torrens.[38][39]
Hosking was a fast aggressive centreman.[41] During his career he also played as a rover, wingman and forward.[10] Hosking often elected toknock on the ball when he found himself in congestion.[11] In regards to when he trained Hosking said that "I always put my whole heart and soul into my work. Running up to the ball I would run my hardest, and when I picked it up there would always be an imaginary opponent in front of me. They used to say at the Port:—'Look at that lunatic out there, dodging and twisting past nothing!".[11]
He was noted for being the fastest player in Port Adelaide's team and one of the fastest in the SAFL.[41] When he was unavailable to play the lack of pace in the Port Adelaide side was said to be noticeable.[41] In 1908 at aSemaphore Athletics Carnival that was held to celebrateKing Edward's birthday Hosking won three events, those being130 yards (118.87 m), 220 yards (201.17 m) and 440 yards (402.34 m).[42] In 1910 and 1912 Hosking won races at the Adelaide St Patrick's Day running events.[42] Just a few days before he turned 37 he entered a 400m event at thePatawalonga winning his heats and coming second in the final.[43]
Hosking was also considered to possess remarkable judgement as a footballer.[10] When describing Hosking in writing for theRegister, Steve McKee stated that "Shine Hosking stands out as one of the most prominent figures in the game during the past 20 years. Combining exceptional pace with a football brain of rare fertility...he was successively a star winger and centre".[5]Bob McLean described Hosking in his book100 Years with the Magpies as possessing "brilliance as a ball handler, his lightening speed and all-round skill...A centreline player, he played mainly in the centre or on the wing. He held his own against all-comers, not only in South Australia, but in the many Interstate and Carnival matches in which he participated."[44]
Hosking relished being booed by fans of opposition clubs interpreting the verbals "as a compliment. It reminded me of the villain in the play".[11] Despite winning two Magarey Medals, of which a criterion of eligibility is fairness, Hosking described himself as having a "reputation of being one of the dirtiest players who ever stripped."[45]
Cartoon of Hosking appearing in theDaily Herald in 1921, the first year Hosking was coach ofPort Adelaide, accompanied by the label "BRILLIANT SHINE"[46]
In 1921 Hosking became Port Adelaide's captain in charge of training during his final full season as a player.[47] Hosking was originally elected as captain of Port Adelaide on 9 March 1921 at the club's annual general meeting.[48] However, on 7 May 1921 the captaincy was given toHarold Oliver, with Hosking being given the vice captaincy.[49] This was after Oliver committed to travel to and from his farm inBerri for matches for the whole1921 SAFL season.[50] On 13 May 1921 aDaily Herald article described Hosking as "a most useful coach to his team, always giving juniors and new players encouragement".[49] That year Port Adelaide beat Norwood by 8 points in the1921 SAFL Grand Final.[51] In the 1921 Port Adelaide Football Club Annual Report, Hosking is listed as one of only three players to attend all 44 of the club's training sessions that season (the other two being Clem Maywald and Kenneth Slade).[52]
On 18 May 1922 theDaily Herald broke the news that Hosking had been poached away from Port Adelaide to be the new coach ofWest Adelaide on the recommendations of the latter club's captain Vic Peters.[54] At the time the news of Hosking's "defection" caused a stir amongst football followers in Port Adelaide.[53] In Hosking's first season at the helm of West Adelaide he guided that club to the1922 SAFL Grand Final where they faced aNorwood side coached by Tom Leahy in front of 31,000 spectators atAdelaide Oval. Despite West Adelaide proving competitive in the contest wayward kicking let them down losing to Norwood 9.7 (61) to 2.1 (28).[55] In October Hosking took his West Adelaide side to Perth to play WAFL premiersEast Perth onLeederville Oval.[56] In that match East Perth beat West Adelaide by 24 points.[57]
During the 1924 season there were reports that the West Adelaide players were not putting in full effort at training, cutting their training sessions short along with failing to follow the instructions of their coach.[58] By the end of 1924 Hosking had become frustrated with the level of commitment displayed by his West Adelaide players, voicing his disappointment inThe News.[59] He did not continue as West Adelaide's coach in 1925.
In 1926 theSouth Adelaide Football Club appointed Hosking as coach.[60] It proved to be a difficult year for Hosking who immediately had to deal with the retirement of South Adelaide legendDan Moriarty along with the defection of Charles Daly who was poached by Norwood.[61] Hosking was left with only Bill Oliver, Alf Ryan and Bill Jackson as the experienced league players in his squad, subsequently forcing Hosking to give league debuts a large number of juniors in order to field a full team for South Adelaide.[61] The club's best result for the season under Hosking was a draw against West Torrens on Adelaide Oval.[62]
Hosking returned to his junior club Semaphore Central as coach at the start of 1927.[2] Halfway through the1927 SAFL season Hosking was appointed to take over fromPeter Bampton as Port Adelaide's coach.[63] His first training session as coach for Port Adelaide that year occurred on 2 August.[64] The following season Hosking guided the club to victory in the1928 SANFL Grand Final, Port Adelaide's first premiership since his departure at the end of 1921. During that year he also coached Port Adelaide's reserves side and Semaphore Centrals on Alberton Oval.[65]
Hosking (far right) instructing his players at training as Port Adelaide coach onAlberton Oval in 1928[66]
In 1929Drozena Eden, a local of Mauritian descent, was invited after partaking in Port Adelaide's pre-season to remain with club's senior team.[67] At the start of 1930 Fred Ward, a club official, stated that "the success of Port Adelaide during the last two years was due almost entirely to the coaching of Hosking".[68]
During the 1932 pre-season Port Adelaide elected to appoint a playing coach rather than a stand-alone coach resulting in Hosking being replaced bySydney Ween.[69] This decision may have been made on financial grounds with a long running internal debate, led by R. Lowe, within the club's administration regarding whether the cost associated with a paid coach, as opposed to just using the captain, was justifiable.[70] Fred Ward held the opposing view considering a non-playing coach preferable.[68] Hosking's absence from coaching only lasted a few months as he seize an opportunity to take over the role as West Torrens coach from D.R. Manning on 5 July 1932.[71] An improved style of play by the West Torrens under Hosking was noted within a month of him becoming coach.[72]
In Hosking's first full year as coach of West Torrens he successfully guided that club to the1933 SANFL Grand Final where they beat Norwood by 23 points.[73] After the Grand Final Magarey MedallistJim Handby was full of praise when it came to Hosking's coaching writing in theAdelaide Advertiser that "this blending of skill, vigor and football intelligence has placed Torrens in its present very satisfactory position. Torrens's football brains have probably been developed by the shrewd attention paid to the players' education in this regard by 'Shine' Hosking, the coach. There is not much that 'Shine' does not know in this phase of football, and a further tribute is due to him for the superbly-trained condition of the Torrens players."[73]
Hosking (far right) talking to his West Torrens players at the club's final training session before the1933 SANFL Grand Final[74]
In 1934 Hosking was simultaneously made the coach of both West Torrens junior and league teams meaning he was required atThebarton Oval four nights a week.[75] During that season Hosking and West Torrens travelled to Tasmania to play a match against a compositeTANFL side.[76]
In 1935 Edward Foote took over from Hosking as league coach of West Torrens.[77] During that year Hosking took part in a charity match as a player between old time players and currentSAJC jockeys inGlenelg.[78]
Caricature of Hosking that appeared inThe News on 20 April 1937[79]
On 1 January 1936 it was revealed byThe News that West Torrens had secured Len Ashby as its coach for the upcoming season thereby creating a void atAlberton leading to speculation that Hosking might return to Port Adelaide for a third time.[80]Vic Johnson was also considered for the Port Adelaide coaching job in 1936 but his contract withSouth Adelaide made this impossible.[80] The speculation proved correct with Hosking returning to Port Adelaide as coach in 1936 where he immediately had to deal with the retirement of club captainBob Johnson.[81] That year he succeeded in coaching Port Adelaide to a narrow three-point win over Sturt in the1936 SANFL Grand Final.
For the 1937 SANFL season one of Hosking's first tasks was to find a player to play the role of full forwardJames Prideaux who retired at the end of the previous season having kicked 86 goals.[79] Hosking claimed consecutive premierships as coach for the first time when Port Adelaide defeated South Adelaide by 24 points in the1937 SANFL Grand Final.[82] In that match Hosking directed his players to spread the goal-kicking amongst the team resulting in eight individual goal kickers.[82]
Hosking stood down as Port Adelaide coach at the end of 1938 to allowBob Quinn to become that club's captain-coach for the1939 SANFL Season.[83]
In 1939 Hosking returned to West Torrens as head coach.[84] That year Hosking took West Torrens to the1939 SANFL Grand Final where they lost to Port Adelaide by 47 points.[85]
At the start of the1940 SANFL season Hosking voiced his optimism praising the players he had at his disposal.[86] Round seven of that season saw West Torrens dramatically topple Port Adelaide atAlberton Oval.[87] Unfortunately for both Hosking and West Torrens he was forced to step down from the role mid-year due to his own health problems.[84][88] This was announced just after West Torrens had played Sturt on 8 June.[89] At the time Hosking stepped aside from his West Torrens duties they were just inside the SANFL top four.[90]Mal Drury took over as West Torrens coach for the remainder of the season.[91] West Torrens ended up finishing the1940 SANFL season second last winning just one game under coach Mal Drury that year.[92]
Hosking as Port–Torrens coach in 1942
During World War II the SANFL administrators reduced the number of sides in its competition from eight to four with clubs temporarily merging with their nearest neighbour.[93] In Port Adelaide's case it merged with West Torrens with Hosking being chosen to coach the side. Early in the year Hosking's freshly assembled Port–Torrens side beat a team representing the Air Force by 11 points on Alberton Oval featuringFrank Curcio (Fitzroy),Vin Doherty (Collingwood), Law (Western Australia), Jack Brittain (North Adelaide), Mervyn Waite (Glenelg) andNorm Hillard (Fitzroy).[94] The Port–Torrens combination under Hosking won the1942 SANFL Grand Final beating theWest Adelaide–Glenelg team by 11 points. After the Grand Final Port–Torrens played a combined side made up of the remaining SANFL players, referred to as "The Rest", on Adelaide Oval on 26 September 1942.[95] Under Hosking the Port–Torrens side defeated "The Rest" by two points.[95]
The following year Hosking successfully returned Port–Torrens to the final match of the season, the1943 SANFL Grand Final, where they faced a Norwood–North combination, ultimately falling short by 21 points. This was Hosking's last game as an SANFL league coach as he announced his retirement at the start of 1944, handing over his Port–Torrens responsibilities to Mal Drury.
As a coach Hosking was a strong proponent of players being able to kick the ball with both feet.[96] Hosking had a preference for fast players.[79]
Hosking advocated for training with the same intensity as when playing an actual game.[11] Hosking believed that at training players should concentrate on overcoming their weaknesses.[97]
Hosking invested time into players that other coaches typically considered lost causes, such as Bill Martin, with whom Sampson ran up and down the length of Adelaide Oval whilst practicing passing the ball between one another.[98]
Hosking had a refrain that suggested players and coaches should "study the game and the moves of your opponents as a chess player would".[99] Once a week when he was coaching Hosking gave his players blackboard lectures on their previous week's play.[100] Hosking provided predetermined moves for his players during these blackboard lectures.[99]
Newspaper article headline that appeared inThe News highlighting Hosking's "No Smoking" edict to his players
Hosking strongly advocated for his players to notsmoke. At half-time of a pre-season match in 1928 Hosking reprimanded some of his player who used the break to start smoking.[101]
Hosking was also an advocate for the SANFL to proactively engage with schools in South Australia to help develop young players.[2] Hosking coached local school teams on Alberton Oval before senior training commenced at 6pm.[102]
For Port Adelaide's 150th anniversary twelve full pages of Hosking's coaching notes were made available in the Port Adelaide Archives Collection produced in 2020.[103] After reading these notesMalcolm Blight stated that "95 per cent of Shine's notes still apply to today's game. A few minor things do not. But Shine could teach today's coaches a few things."[103] In 2020John Cahill made a comment about Hosking, along withReginald Schumann, onTwitter saying that "Shine Hosking & Reg Schumann talented, skillful, tough players. Had the pleasure of sharing many conversations with. They spoke with conviction & great insight. More importantly just good men."[104]
Coming down the hill duringOakbank's Von Doussa, Hosking's victorious Prestonia (right) is pictured leading Bay Anton (left).[105]
Hosking enjoyed training horses, such as his 1939 Murray Bridge Steeplechase[106] and 1940 Von DoussaOakbank winner Prestonia.[86] He shared this hobby with Kenneth Hosking, one of his sons.[107] Kenneth was a jockey and wore black and whitesilks as a nod to his father's football career with Port Adelaide.[108] On 18 October 1943 Hosking was granted an owner-trainer licence by theSAJC.[109] In September 1944 one of Hosking's horses named Vitalise won a race atMorphettville Racecourse.[110]
Hosking married Lillie Ann Thompson on 31 August 1907.[111] Hosking was a member of the Alberton Bowling Club.[112] He died on 20 October 1974 at the age of 86.[35] In the 1974 Port Adelaide Annual Report and Balance Sheet an obituary recognised Sampson Hosking noting that he had died "after a long illness".[113]
In 1970 Hosking, along with other veteran players from before World War I, was honoured with amotorcade around Alberton Oval to celebrate the Port Adelaide Football Club's 100th anniversary.[114]
Hosking was one of the 113 inaugural inductees into theSouth Australian Football Hall of Fame in 2002.[115] In 2020 theAdelaide Advertiser compiled a list of "Port Adelaide's 150 Greatest Players" and placed Hosking at 5th.[116] Hosking was awarded life membership of the Port Adelaide Football Club in 1919. Hosking was awarded life membership of the Semaphore Central Football Club in 1936.[117]
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South Australia 13.18 (96) def. Western Australia 3.5 (23), atAdelaide Oval, 5 August 1911 South Australia 13.13 (91) def. Tasmania 3.6 (24), atAdelaide Oval, 7 August 1911 South Australia 12.20 (92) def. New South Wales 2.9 (21), atAdelaide Oval, 9 August 1911 South Australia 11.11 (77) def. Victoria 5.4 (34), atAdelaide Oval, 12 August 1911
Victoria 14.13 (97) def South Australia 10.10 (70), atMelbourne Cricket Ground, 6 July 1912 South Australia 9.8 (62) def Victoria 6.7 (43), atAdelaide Oval, 10 August 1912
South Australia 7.10 (52) def by. Victoria 9.12 (66), atJubilee Oval, 29 April 1921 Western Australia 12.13 (75) def South Australia 9.11 (65), atPerth Oval|Perth Oval, 13 August 1921 South Australia (43) def by. Victoria (78), atFremantle Oval, 7 August 1921
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