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Below are photos of all inductees into the AFL Tasmanian Hall of Fame (in progress)
The site is dedicated to Pat Hartnett below are his playing details and then follows photos of inductees to the
AFL Tasmania Hall of Fame
PLAYER INDUCTEE
North-East/North Launceston/St Kilda/Cananore/VFA, Centreman/Forward, 1926-1941
66 games, 58 goals for St Kilda, 1930, 1934-37
> Around 30 games for North Launceston, 1929, 1931
> Around 30 games for Cananore, 1932-33
> 11 games, 12 goals for Sandringham (VFA), 1938
> Around 50 games for Brighton (VFA), 1939-41
> Cananore TANFL premiership, 1933
> William Leitch Medal for TANFL Best and Fairest, 1932 (retrospective 1996)
> Recorder Cup for VFA Best and Fairest, 1939
> North Launceston Best and Fairest, 1929
> Cananore Best and Fairest, 1932
> Tasmanian National Carnival representative, 1933 (Sydney)
> Victorian interstate representative, 1935 (3 games)
> 1935 Harford Trophy Winner (Best Position Player for St Kilda FC)
A fast and clever half forward flanker, Pat Hartnett was one of the most decorated Tasmanian footballers of the 1930s. Born in St Helens in 1910, Hartnett was playing senior football for St Helens by the time he was 16, and later played a season with Ringarooma in the old North-East Association in 1928. His senior career began with North Launceston in 1929, where he won the senior Best and Fairest award in his first season as a 19-year-old. The following season he crossed to Victoria to join St Kilda, but after only three games for the year he returned to Tasmania and to North Launceston. After missing the Robins’ 1931 premiership, Hartnett headed south to Hobart to play with Cananore, and it was here that his star began to burn brightly.
His 1932 season was a great success and he took home the Canaries’ Best and Fairest award that year; however, he found himself on the wrong end of two further results featuring North Hobart at season’s end. He was a member of Cananore’s losing TANFL grand final team against the Redlegs, and while he tied with Len Pye in the William Leitch Medal count, he lost the award on a count back, although was posthumously awarded the medal years later in 1996. 1933 brought the only premiership of Hartnett’s senior career as Cananore avenged their previous year’s defeat, again opposite North Hobart. That season also saw Hartnett represent his home state at the 1933 National Carnival in Sydney, and it was his performances there that led St Kilda to approach him to return to the VFL, which he did. This second stint in the VFL was far more successful than his first, with Hartnett appearing 65 times for the Saints from 1934-37, performing well enough to poll 26 Brownlow votes during the period. 1935 was by far Hartnett’s best season in the VFL: he played 16 games, kicked 22 goals, polled eight Brownlow votes and played his only representative matches for the VFL. In one of these games he gathered 28 disposals, took 13 marks and kicked 6.3 in Victoria’s 91-point hammering of South Australia at the Adelaide Oval, easily being named one of his side’s best.
At the start of the 1938 season Hartnett requested a clearance to VFA side Sandringham, however St Kilda were reluctant to release Hartnett and it took until May 1938 year for the clearance to be approved. Hartnett would play 11 games for the Zebras before joining Brighton for the 1939 season, another outstanding year for Hartnett in which he won the Recorder Cup as the VFA’s Best and Fairest player. Hartnett would continue with Brighton until the end of the 1941 season when the VFA went into recess due to World War II, ending Hartnett’s career in top-flight football.
Hartnett enlisted in the military during World War II, serving with the 51st Australian Garrison Battalion as a guard at Italian prisoner of war camps around Myrtleford, Victoria. Whilst enlisted he continued to play football for an Army team in a Sunday league around Albury. He was discharged in 1946 and died in 1990 at the age of 80.
1 – Fred McGinis 2 – Roy Bailey
3 – Victor Barwick 4 – Bruce Carter
5 – Jack Gardiner 6 – Algy Tynen
7 – Viv Valentine 8 – George Challis
9 – Jack Dunn 10 – George Miller
11 – James Atkinson 12 – Horrie Gorringe
13 – Alan Scott 14 – Colin Deane
15 – Don Scott 16 – Hec Smith
17 – Ivor Warne-Smith 18 – Jack Charlesworth
19 – Angus “Horrie” Mason 20 – Fred Pringle
21 – Alan Leitch 22 – Bill Berryman
23 – Pat Hartnett 24 – Alan Rait
25 – Paddy Walsh 26 – Roy Cazaly
27 – Hugh Cameron 28 – Jock Connell
29 – Harry Long 30 – Len Pye
31 – Roy Cooper 32 – Eric Huxtable
33 – Leo McAuley 34 – Laurie Nash
35 – Fred Smith 36 – Gavin Luttrell
37 – Trevor Ranson 38 – Gordon Abbott
39 – Jack Donnelly 40 – Vern Rae
41 – Eric Zschech 42 – Jack Hill
43 – Albert Chilcott 44 – Jack Metherall
45 – Terry Cashion 46 – Don Clark
47 – Noel Atkins 48 – G B “Paddy” Martin
49 – J.A Gavin O’Dea 50 – Jack Rough
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51 – Ray Summers 52 – John Leedham
53 – Keith Welsh 54 – Darrel “Dasher” Eaton
55 – Arthur Hodgson 56 – George Viney
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57 – John “Jack” Hawksley 58 – Rex Garwood
59 – Geoff Long 60 – Peter Marquis
61 – Lerrel Sharp 62 – Bob Miller
63 – John Chick 64 – Brian Eade
65 – Colin Moore 66 – Barry Strange
67 – Neil Conlan 68 – Ian Drake
69 – Don Gale 70 – Verdun Howell
71 – Trevor Leo 72 – Berkley Cox
73 – Darrel Baldock 74 – Robert Johnson
75 – Jack McMurray 76 – Burnie Payne
77 – Jim Ross 78 – Graeme “Gypsy” Lee
79 – Allan Leeson 80 – Stuart Spencer
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81 – Brian Lowe 82 – Kevin McLean
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83 – Graeme Hamley 84 – Peter Floyd
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85 – Les Manson 86 – Bob Withers
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87 – Paul Sproule 88 – Peter Hudson
89 – Peter Jones 90 – Ian Stewart
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91 – John Bingley 92 – Barry Lawrence
93 – Royce Hart 94 – John Devine
95 – Brent Croswell 96 – Noel Leary
Brent Crosswell at the 2023 afl tas hall of fame evening -with on left Damien Dillon 2001 William Leitch Medalist and tassy footy historian
97 – Geoff Poulter 98 – Craig Davis
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99 – Greg Lethborg 100 – Ricky Smith
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101 – Darryl Sutton 102 – Robert Shaw
222- Wendell ( RIP ) David Langmaid 
