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List Of Essendon Football Club Leading Goalkickers
The following is a list of Essendon Football Club leading goalkickers in each season of the Australian Football League The Australian Football League (AFL) is the only fully professional competition of Australian rules football. Through the AFL Commission, the AFL also serves as the sport's governing body and is responsible for controlling the laws of the gam ... (formerly the Victorian Football League). ReferencesEssendon Club Honours {{AFL club leading goalkickers Goalkickers Essendon Football Club goalkickers Essendon Football Club goalkickers ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Essendon Football Club
The Essendon Football Club, nicknamed the Bombers, is a professional Australian rules football club. The club plays in the Australian Football League (AFL), the game's premier competition. The club was formed by the McCracken family in their Ascot Vale, Victoria, Ascot Vale home "Alisa", and while the exact date is unknown, it is generally accepted to have been in 1872. The club’s first recorded game took place on 7 June 1873 against a Carlton Second 20. From 1878 until 1896, the club played in the Victorian Football Association then joined seven other clubs in October 1896 to form the breakaway Victorian Football League (later changed to AFL in 1990). Headquartered at the Essendon Recreation Ground, known as Windy Hill, from 1922 to 2013, the club moved to The Hangar in near Tullamarine in late 2013 on land owned the Melbourne Airport. The club currently plays its home games at either Docklands Stadium or the Melbourne Cricket Ground. Dyson Heppell is the current List of Esse ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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Dick Reynolds
Richard Sylvannus Reynolds (20 June 1915 – 2 September 2002) was an Australian rules footballer who played for the Essendon Football Club in the Victorian Football League (VFL). Reynolds is one of four footballers to have won three Brownlow Medals, the others being Haydn Bunton Sr., Bob Skilton and Ian Stewart. Revered by Essendon supporters, he was often referred to simply as "King Richard". Family The son of William Meader Reynolds (1886—1940) and Mary James Reynolds, née Thompson (1885—1941), and one of seven children, Richard Sylvannus Reynolds was born on 20 June 1915. He died on 2 September 2002. He was the brother of Tom Reynolds, the cousin of Richmond champion player and coach Max Oppy, and the grandfather of Joel Reynolds. Early life and career Reynolds grew up supporting and sold lollies outside Princes Park on match days. When Reynolds won his first Brownlow Medal in 1934, champion Haydn Bunton Sr., whom Reynolds had narrowly beaten to win the awar ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ted Bryce
Edward George Bryce (21 December 1912 – 10 October 1996) was an Australian rules footballer who played with Essendon in the Victorian Football League (VFL). Bryce was used up forward with success later in his career, but started out as a wingman and also played as a rover. He was the son of former Collingwood and South Melbourne player Bob Bryce. His brother, George Bryce, also competed for South Melbourne. He missed the end of the 1936 VFL season and most of 1937, after he received an 18-week suspension for kicking Carltons Norm Cashin. In 1938, his first full season back, he became a VFL interstate representative for the first time. Bryce missed another five games through suspension in 1939. He was Essendon's leading goal-kicker in 1940, when he kicked 48 goals. His record in finals saw him kick 16 goals from just six game. He kicked two of those goals from a forward pocket in the 1941 VFL Grand Final The 1941 VFL Grand Final was an Australian rules football game c ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tom Reynolds (footballer)
Thomas Partridge Reynolds (21 November 1917 – 7 November 2002), was an Australian rules footballer who played with Essendon Football Club, Essendon in the Australian Football League, VFL. Family The son of William Meader Reynolds (1886—1940) and Mary James Reynolds, née Thompson (1885—1941), and one of seven children, Thomas Partridge Reynolds was born on 21 November 1917. He died on 7 November 2002. He was the brother of three times Brownlow Medal winner Dick Reynolds and the cousin of Richmond champion player and coach Max Oppy. Essendon Reynolds was a forward and kicked more than 50 goals in a season on 4 occasions — Essendon's leading goalkicker each time — with his 71 goals in 1939 (his best season) including 10 goals in the round 10 (24 June 1939) high scoring match against Hawthorn, at Windy Hill, Essendon, Windy Hill (Essendon 19.11 (125) to Hawthorn 16.19 (115)). His end of season tally was a club record until passed by John Coleman (Australian footballer) ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ted Freyer
Ted Freyer (20 May 1910 – 22 April 1984) was an Australian rules footballer who played with Essendon in the VFL during the 1930s. Family The sixth of the seven children of Peter Henry Freyer (1869-1945), and Mary Freyer (1871-1928), née Suffolk, Edward Laurence Freyer was born at Port Melbourne, Victoria on 20 May 1910. He married Elsie Olivia Holmes (1911-2001) in 1930. His brother, Bill Freyer, played VFL football with South Melbourne and Footscray in the mid-1920s, and his son, Robert Alan Freyer (1937-2011), played for Port Melbourne in the VFA between 1958 and 1965. Football Essendon (VFL) Freyer usually played in the forward pocket and topped Essendon's goalkicking in consecutive seasons from 1931 until 1934 and again in 1936. He kicked 12 goals in one match in 1935 he kicked 12.1 (73) against Melbourne, at the MCG, on 27 April 1935 8 goals once (1934), 7 goals four times (1931, 1934, 1935, and 1937), and 6 goals seven times (1931 (twice), 1933, 1936 (3 times) ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Len Johnson (footballer)
Leslie Albert "Len" Johnson (6 July 1908 – 24 January 1942) was an Australian rules footballer who played with Essendon and North Melbourne in the Victorian Football League (VFL). He died in an accident while serving with the Second AIF during World War II. Family One of the eight children of Albert Henry Johnson, and Margaret Johnson, née O'Keefe, Leslie Albert Johnson was born in Elsternwick, Victoria on 6 July 1908 (his birth was registered as "Albert Lesley Johnson"). SVP Boys Orphanage His mother died on 26 June 1918, aged 40, when Len was only 10. His father, a handyman who had to travel widely for his work, leaving his youngest son in the hands of his daughters, and assuming that his eldest son, Dan (known as Edward), could look after himself, and delivered his three other sons, Len, Eric, and Patrick over to the Society of Saint Vincent de Paul's Boys Orphanage in Cecil Street, South Melbourne. Football He was equal leading goalkicker for Essendon in the 1929 VFL s ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Keith Forbes
Keith MacKenzie Forbes (28 May 1906 – 7 September 1996) is a former Australian rules footballer who played for Coburg in the Victorian Football Association (VFA), and for Essendon, North Melbourne (as captain-coach), and Fitzroy in the Victorian Football League (VFL). Family The son of Donald Forbes, and Sarah Jane Forbes, née MacPhail, Keith MacKenzie Forbes was born on 28 May 1906. He married Dorothy Viola Brown on 25 November 1935. Football A small goalkicking rover, he stood at 171 cm. Coburg (VFA) Forbes played a total of 30 games for Coburg over three seasons (1926–1928), and was part of the 1927 premiership team. Essendon (VFL) Forbes transferred to Essendon without a clearance from Coburg, having played for Coburg for the first five matches in the VFA's 1928 season, as did another two of his (1927 Grand Final winning) Coburg team-mates, Aub Charleston, and Ernie Martin. He was twice runner-up in the Brownlow Medal; in 1930 (joint), and in 1935. He twi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jack Vosti
John Winfred Vosti (25 April 1903 – 10 September 1977) was an Australian rules footballer who played for Essendon Football Club, Essendon and Western Bulldogs, Footscray in the Victorian Football League (1897–1989), Victorian Football League (VFL). Football Vosti started his VFL career in 1925 with Essendon. He played forward and topped Essendon's goalkicking in 1927 after kicking 35 goals. The following season saw him move to fullback, a position at which he excelled. He finished 2nd in Essendon's 1929 best and fairest award. From 1927 until 1930 he was a regular at full back for Victoria at Interstate matches in Australian rules football, interstate football. In 1933 Essendon released him due to doubts over his ability to play with a knee injury. He joined Footscray, but was after performing well in 1933, he was again affected by injury. In mid 1935 he transferred back to Essendon, but only managed two more VFL games before retiring. He then coached Pascoe Vale Football ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tommy Jenkins (Australian Rules Footballer)
Thomas J. Jenkins (6 June 1902 – 6 August 1979) was an Australian rules footballer who played with Essendon and North 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 1920s. Jenkins arrived at Essendon in 1921 after his VFA club North Melbourne had disbanded and spent five seasons with the Bombers. Short but large, Jenkins played mostly as a full-forward and was a premiership player in 1923 and 1924. He twice topped Essendon's goalkicking, in 1924 with 50 goals and 1925 with 37 goals. His best tally in a game was nine goals against North Melbourne in 1925, who had by then reformed and joined the VFL. In 1927, he returned to his old club but could manage only three senior games. In later life he ran a stall at the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Greg Stockdale
Francis Gregory Stockdale (30 July 1899 – 14 May 1949) was an Australian rules footballer who played with Essendon in the Victorian Football League (VFL) during the 1920s. Family The son of William Hallett Stockdale (1859–1927), and Agnes Stockdale (-1925), née Heavy (or Heavey or Harvey), Francis Gregory Stockdale was born at Kilmore, Victoria on 30 July 1899. One of his older brothers, William Hallett Stockdale (1887–1915), was killed in action at Gallipoli on 8 May 1915. He married Ivy Gladys Lobb (1894–1947) in 1936. Football Kilmore (RDFA) He played with the Kilmore Football Club in 1917 and 1918. Rushworth (KDFL) He played for Rushworth Football Club in the Kyabram and District Football League in 1919. Corowa (O&MFA) Stockdale moved to Corowa to work (at Stockdale & Skehan Motor Garage) and played football with his older brother, Chas Stockdale in the powerful Ovens and Murray Football League from 1920 to 1922. It was at Corowa Football Club that his footbal ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jack Moriarty
Jack Moriarty (30 April 1901 – 5 September 1980) was an Australian rules footballer and champion goal-kicker in the Victorian Football League (VFL). Family The son of the Fitzroy full-back, dual premiership player, and first coach, Geoffrey John Moriarty (1871-1948), and Mary Anne Moriarty (1879-1964), née Jackson, Geoffrey John Moriarty was born at Fitzroy, Victoria on 30 April 1901. He married Isabel Sophia Nairn (1901-1987) in 1924. Football Moriarty was a lightly built full-forward — despite standing only 5'10" (178 cm), and weighing approximately 60 kg, he had the ability to jump over opponents and take strong over-head marks — who became a spectacular success after leaving Essendon Football Club at the end of 1923 and crossing to Fitzroy Football Club. Essendon (VFA) He played in every home-and-away game (17 matches) for the Essendon Association Football Club (a.k.a. "Essendon A") in 1921, the club's final season in the Victorian Football Associ ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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