Ron Evans

Ronald Barry Evans AM (7 July 1939 – 9 March 2007) was an Australian rules footballer, Chairman of the Australian Football League (AFL) from 1998 to 2007, as well as President of the Essendon Football Club from 1988 to 1992.

Education

Evans was educated at Caulfield Grammar School in Melbourne, where he was a classmate of linguist Michael Clyne, businessman Ron Walker, and 1960 Brownlow Medal winner John Schultz.

He played full-forward in Caulfield Grammar's First XVIII, a team which also contained two other future VFL players: Ron Cabble who played with Hawthorn, and Footscray's John Schultz.

Evans later gained both a BSc and an MBA.

Football career

Although not solidly built (he weighed 78 kg), he was 6'2" (188 cm), and his very long arms gave him extra inches in marking contests.

Recruited from Essendon Baptists in 1958 — he had broken the Essendon District Football League's Essendon goalkicking record in 1957 — he played his first senior match for Essendon, as a reserve, at the Melbourne Cricket Ground, against Melbourne on 10 May 1958.

Ron Evans (politician)

Ron Evans (born 1957) is a clergyman and politician in Manitoba, Canada. As of 2009 he is the Chief for the Norway House Cree Nation and former Grand Chief of the Assembly of Manitoba Chiefs. A priest in the Anglican Church of Canada, Evans is also a prominent figure in the Aboriginal community of northern Manitoba. He unsuccessfully sought election to both the Manitoba Legislature and the Canadian House of Commons, and has served as a band councillor and chief.

Evans was born and raised in Norway House, Manitoba, and was educated in Winnipeg, Calgary and La Tuque, Quebec. As a priest, Evans is a member of the Diocesan Council in the Anglican Diocese of Keewatin and a member of the Anglican Council of Indigenous People. He served as a band councillor in Norway House from 1980 to 1988, and was the band's acting chief for two years during this period. He was elected as the band's chief in 1996, was re-elected in 1998 and 2002, and was also an executive councillor in the Manitoba Keewatinowi Okimakanak and the Assembly of Manitoba Chiefs. He stepped down as chief of Norway House Cree Nation to run for the AMC leadership. In addition to his political work, Evans is a member of the Norway House Fisherman's Co-op, and holds a commercial fishing license. In 1998, Evans was presented with "The Order of the Buffalo Hunt" from then-Premier Gary Filmon.

Ron Evans (cricketer)

Ronald Ernest Evans (22 July 1922 – 16 June 1993) was an English cricketer. Evans was a right-handed batsman. He was born at East Ham, Essex.

Evans made his first-class debut for Essex against Kent in the 1950 County Championship. He made sixteen further first-class appearances for the county, the last of which came against Hampshire in the 1957 County Championship. Nine of his first-class appearances came in 1950, one in 1953, five in 1954 and one each in 1955 and 1957. In his seventeen first-class appearances, he scored 482 runs at an average of 16.62, with a high score of 79. This score, which was one of three fifties he made, came against Kent on debut at Mote Park, Maidstone.

He died at Upminster, Essex on 16 June 1993.

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