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List Of Sydney Swans Leading Goalkickers
The following is a list of Sydney Swans (formerly South Melbourne Football Club) leading goalkickers in each season of the Australian Football League (formerly the Victorian Football League). See also References External links Sydney Swans Goalkicking Records {{DEFAULTSORT:Sydney Swans goalkickers Sydney Swans, Goallkickers Sydney-sport-related lists Australian rules football-related lists ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sydney Swans
The Sydney Swans are a professional Australian rules football club based in Sydney, New South Wales. The men's team competes in the Australian Football League (AFL), and the women's team in the AFL Women's (AFLW). The Swans also field a reserves men's team in the Victorian Football League (VFL). The club's origins trace back to 21 March 1873, when a meeting was held at the Clarendon Hotel in South Melbourne to establishing a junior football club, to be called the South Melbourne Football Club. The club commenced playing in 1874 at its home ground; Lakeside Oval in Albert Park. Playing as South Melbourne, it participated in the Victorian Football Association (VFA) competition from 1878 before joining the breakaway Victorian Football League (VFL) as a founding member in 1897. Originally known as the "Bloods" in reference to the red colour used on players' guernseys, the Swan emblem was adopted in 1933 after a journalist at the time referred to them using the moniker following ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bob Pratt
Harold Robert Pratt Sr. (31 August 1912 – 6 January 2001) was an Australian rules footballer who played for the South Melbourne Football Club in the Victorian Football League (VFL) and the Coburg Football Club in the Victorian Football Association (VFA). Considered "arguably the best full-forward in the history of Australian rules", Pratt was one of the inaugural Legends inducted into the Australian Football Hall of Fame in 1996. Known for spectacular diving and high-flying marks, Pratt topped South Melbourne's goalkicking for the first time in 1932 with 71 goals and for the next three seasons passed 100 goals. His total of 150 goals in 1934 was a VFL/AFL record which stood alone until Peter Hudson equalled it in 1971. Pratt also kicked ten or more goals in a game eight times, including 15 goals in a single game. His son, Bob Pratt Jr., also played for South Melbourne. Early life The son of Harold Robert Pratt and Olive Pratt (née Fosbrook), Pratt was born in the inner- ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Eddie Lane
Esmond James Lane (25 June 1929 – 28 May 2018) was an Australian rules footballer who played with South Melbourne in the VFL during the 1950s. Lane was a 168 cm rover and handy goalkicker. His best season came in 1954 when he won the South Melbourne Best and Fairest In Australian sport, the best and fairest award recognises the player(s) adjudged to have had the best performance in a game or over a season for a given sporting club or competition. The awards are sometimes dependent on not receiving a suspensi ... award and finished equal 3rd in the Brownlow Medal. He topped the club's goal kicking in both 1954 and 1955. References External links * *Eddie Lane photo 1929 births 2018 deaths Australian rules footballers from Victoria (Australia) Sydney Swans players Bob Skilton Medal winners {{AFL-bio-1920s-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ian Gillett
Ian Gillett (20 September 1928 – 28 February 2008) was an Australian rules footballer who played with South Melbourne in the VFL during the 1950s. Gillett was a ruckman but was also capable of playing the key positions. He was South Melbourne's leading goalkicker in 1953 and won the Best and Fairest award in 1956. Gillett was captain-coach of Coolamon Football Club from 1959 to 1963 and steered them to a premiership in 1959. Gillett was captain of the South West Football League (New South Wales) The South West District Football League was a major Australian rules football competition which ran from 1910 until 1981 in the Riverina region of New South Wales. History The first recorded Australian Rules Football match in the Riverina area wa ... representative team that won the 1964 VFCL Country Championships. References External links * 1928 births Australian rules footballers from Victoria (state) Sydney Swans players Bob Skilton Medal winners 2008 deaths ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gordon Lane
Gordon Francis 'Whopper' Lane (30 May 1921 – 21 July 1973) was an Australian rules footballer who represented the Essendon and South Melbourne in the VFL. He played as a forward with a strong overhead mark and was rated by Jack Dyer John Raymond Dyer Sr. OAM (15 November 1913 – 23 August 2003), nicknamed Captain Blood, was an Australian rules footballer who played for the Richmond Football Club in the Victorian Football League (VFL) between 1931 and 1949. One of the ga ... in 1946 as 'the best centre half forward in the game'. He is best remembered for his performances in Essendon's Grand Finals of the 1940s. In the 1942 final he kicked six goals and in 1946 kicked seven. Lane missed out on a chance to play in another Grand Final in 1947 due to him breaking his ribs in the preliminary final. He was injured again the following season, this time it was his knee and he moved to South Melbourne in 1950 where he would be both captain and coach for three years. External ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dick Jones (Australian Footballer)
Richard Henry Jones (born 5 June 1926) was an Australian rules footballer who played with South Melbourne in the Victorian Football League (VFL). Jones, a rover, joined South Melbourne from East Fremantle, but hailed from rural Western Australia. He kicked a goal in all but one of his 17 games and topped South Melbourne's goal-kicking with 27 majors. During the year he was acting vice-captain. In 1950 he returned to Western Australia and captain-coached Boulder City to a Goldfields National Football League premiership. Jones resumed his VFL career in 1951 but only appeared in the opening two rounds of the season. The next stage of his career was spent in South Australia, starting at Glenelg in 1952. He stopped playing football at the end of the year and concentrated on his police career, before returning briefly in 1956. In 1957 he was appointed captain-coach of West Torrens and guided them to a fourth-place finish that year. He retired as a player in 1958 but stayed on ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bill Williams (Australian Rules Footballer)
William Williams (13 September 1925 – 7 July 2016) was an Australian rules footballer who played with South Melbourne in the Victorian Football League The Victorian Football League (VFL) is an Australian rules football league in Australia serving as one of the second-tier regional semi-professional competitions which sit underneath the fully professional Australian Football League (AFL). It ... (VFL) during the late 1940s. A rover, Williams won the best and fairest award for South in 1946, 1947 and 1950. A handy goalkicker, he twice topped their season ending list for goals. He joined Williamstown as captain-coach in 1952. In 2003 he was named on the interchange bench in the club's official Team of the Century. Williams died 7 July 2016 aged 90. References External links * 1925 births Australian rules footballers from Victoria (state) Sydney Swans players Bob Skilton Medal winners Spotswood Football Club players Williamstown Football Club players ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Harry Mears
Harry Mears (30 April 1922 – 30 March 1999) was an Australian rules footballer who played with Collingwood and South Melbourne in the Victorian Football League (VFL). A rover, Mears made his way into the Collingwood team from the league seconds. Mears played 19 games for Collingwood in the 1945 VFL season, but usually started on the bench, so he transferred to South Melbourne in 1946, seeking greater opportunities. He had a strong first season at South Melbourne in 1946, finishing as their leading goal-kicker with 32 goals. He also polled 11 Brownlow Medal The Charles Brownlow Trophy, better known as the Brownlow Medal (and informally as "Charlie"), is awarded to the " best and fairest" player in the Australian Football League (AFL) during the home-and-away season, as determined by votes cast by ... votes, the most by a South Melbourne player. Mears spent two more seasons at the club and then joined Mortlake in the Hampden Football League, as coach.'' The Argus'"N ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ron Hartridge
Ronald Osmond Hartridge (8 November 1919 – 28 May 1973) was an Australian rules footballer who played with St Kilda and South Melbourne in the Victorian Football League (VFL). Hartridge had a slow start to his career, after arriving at St Kilda from South Melbourne Technical College. A key position player, he could only put together 11 appearances in his first three seasons and then didn't play any VFL football in 1941 and 1942. He had his first seasons with South Melbourne in 1943 and the following year was finally able to make regular appearances, playing 17 games. In 1944 he also kicked 31 goals to top South Melbourne's goal-kicking. He didn't miss a single game in 1945 and was again successful up forward with 32 goals, but would only play as a reserve in the 1945 VFL Grand Final. In 1947 he made two appearances early in the season but would finish the year at Coburg in the Victorian Football Association The Victorian Football League (VFL) is an Australian rules f ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Charlie Culph
Charles Harrison Culph (24 October 1920 – 5 October 2007) was an Australian rules footballer who played with South Melbourne in the Victorian Football League (VFL). Culph, a forward, was South Melbourne's leading goal-kicker in the 1943 VFL season. He kicked 35 goals from his 11 appearances that year, with a best of six goals in a win over Melbourne Melbourne ( ; Boonwurrung/Woiwurrung: ''Narrm'' or ''Naarm'') is the capital and most populous city of the Australian state of Victoria, and the second-most populous city in both Australia and Oceania. Its name generally refers to a met ... at Punt Road Oval. He returned to his original club, Port Melbourne, in 1945 and remained with the club until his retirement in 1951, playing 117 games. Culph was a member of their 1947 premiership team and topped their goal-kicking in 1949. References External links * * {{DEFAULTSORT:Culph, Charlie 1920 births Australian rules footballers from Victoria (state) Sydney ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lindsay White
Lindsay G. White (5 January 1922 – 13 March 1977) was an Australian rules footballer who represented and in the Victorian Football League (1897–1989), Victorian Football League (VFL) during the 1940s. White was regarded as one of the best forwards of the 1940s. He was fast on the lead, was a strong overhead mark and possessed a long and accurate kick. He kicked 67 goals in 1941, his debut season for Geelong, but at the end of the year Geelong went into temporary recess due to travel restrictions during World War II and White transferred to South Melbourne. He spent two seasons there, kicking 111 goals in 25 games and leading the league goalkicking in 1942.Coleman Medal winners White returned to Geelong for the start of the 1944 season and was named club captain in 1948. In t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jack Graham (Australian Footballer, Born 1916)
Jack Graham may refer to: Sportspeople * Jack Graham (Australian footballer, born 1916) (1916–1984), Australian rules footballer for South Melbourne *Jack Graham (Australian footballer, born 1878) (1878–1907), Australian rules footballer for Melbourne *Jack Graham (Australian footballer, born 1998), Australian rules footballer for Richmond *Jack Graham (footballer, born 1868) (1868–1932), English footballer *Jack Graham (footballer, born 1873) (1873–1925), English footballer *Jack Graham (baseball) (1916–1998), Major League Baseball player Others *Jack Gilbert Graham (1932–1957), mass murderer *Jack Graham (pastor) (born 1950), Baptist pastor and former president of the Southern Baptist Convention *Jack Graham (politician) John Collins Graham (born June 17, 1952), also known as Jack Graham, is an American business executive and former Colorado State University athletic director. He was a Republican Party candidate for a United States Senate seat in Colorado in the .. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
