Career
Former Crows player, Ken McGregor is not related. Originally from the Broken Hill Football League where he was a Hurley Medallist in 1922, McGregor was recruited by West Adelaide in 1923 after attempts were made for his signature by both Norwood and Portuguese Adelaide. He represented South Australia at the interstate level 22 times during his career.
With the economic privations of the Depression beginning to hit home in 1930, McGregor, along with team mate Bob Snell, the 1929 Magarey Medallist, was lured to Tasmania where the money on offer was significantly better than in Adelaide.
After two seasons as captain-coach of North Hobart in the Tasmanian Football League (TFL) where the team finished as beaten Grand Finallists in both 1930 and 1931, he returned to the SANFL and joined South Adelaide. He played just two games before standing down as a player but coached the club for the rest of the year with Souths "winning" the wooden spoon by finishing eighth.
In 1933 he was appointed coach of the Glenelg Football Club and in 1934 he coached the club to their first ever SANFL Premiership. McGregor then returned to West Adelaide to coach the team in 1937 but his three seasons in charge saw the Wests finish seventh in each season.
He was replaced for 1940, but returned in 1941, and along with Colin Smith, coached the vastly improved team to finish third with a 12-5 record.