David Clarke Sr.

David E. Clarke is a former Australian rules footballer with Victorian Football League clubs Geelong and Carlton. Better known as a half-forward flanker, Clarke also played in the centre and centre half-back positions.
Clarke won Geelong's Best and Fairest three times and was runner-up four times.
Clarke was a director of the failed Geelong based Pyramid [Building Society], which collapsed in 1990 with debts of A$2 billion. He was charged with 13 breaches of the Building Societies Act and was given a two-year suspended jail sentence and fined $47,000 after pleading guilty.
Clarke's sons David and Tim played in the Australian Football League and daughter Georgina competed at the 2000 Summer Olympics in Sydney as a 16-year-old, reaching the semi-finals in the Women's 1500m.