Kevin Abley was an Australian rules football

Australian rules football

Australian rules football, officially known as Australian football, also called football, Aussie rules or footy is a sport played between two teams of 22 players on either...

er who played in the South Australian National Football League

South Australian National Football League

The South Australian National Football League is an Australian rules football league based in the Australian state of South Australia. It is also the governing body for the sport of Australian rules football in South Australia....

 with the Glenelg Football Club.

Kevin Abley was born on the 24th of March, 1935, in Box Hill, Victoria

Box Hill, Victoria

Box Hill is a suburb in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia, 14 km east from Melbourne's central business district. Its Local Government Area is the City of Whitehorse. At the 2006 Census, Box Hill had a population of 8,616....

, Australia. He came to Adelaide in the early stages of 1950 when he was 15 years of age. He lived with his family which included his brother, and Port Adelaide Magpie legend John Abley

John Abley

John Abley was an Australian rules footballer who played with Port Adelaide in the South Australian National Football League between 1950 and 1961....

. He played 176 games for Glenelg, mainly at full-back and represented South Australia (On 4 occasions) in the state of Origin series against his home state of Victoria.

Early Careers

Abley played most of his Junior Football in Victoria. He took up football at a young age, and by the age of 13; Abley was playing for the Box Hill's U18's team. He was also a sprinter; his best time was at 19, where his time was 10.3, .04 seconds of qualifying for the Australian Olympic Team.

When Abley made the move to Adelaide, South Australia, in 1950 (aged 15) He searched around several clubs across the SANFL and eventually chose to stay with the Glenelg Tigers

Glenelg Tigers

Glenelg Football Club is an Australian rules football team, which plays in the South Australian National Football League. The club is known as the "Tigers" , and their home ground is Gliderol Stadium @ Glenelg , located in the southern coastal suburb of Glenelg East, South Australia.-Club...

. John Abley

John Abley

John Abley was an Australian rules footballer who played with Port Adelaide in the South Australian National Football League between 1950 and 1961....

 was already at Port Adelaide, and Kevin was willing to play with him at Alberton despite living in the Glenelg Tiger's district.

Career wise, Abley's first job was as an insurance broker for "Holdfast Insurance Brokers" a small business based at Glenelg.

Abley did his National Service at the age of 18 (1953) at the Warradale Barracks, and was transferred to Broken Hill, New South Wales

Broken Hill, New South Wales

-Geology:Broken Hill's massive orebody, which formed about 1,800 million years ago, has proved to be among the world's largest silver-lead-zinc mineral deposits. The orebody is shaped like a boomerang plunging into the earth at its ends and outcropping in the centre. The protruding tip of the...

after 1 years service.