Grant Stephen Dorrington OAM BEM (born 15 April 1948) is an

Australian rules football Australian football, also called Australian rules football or Aussie rules, or more simply football or footy, is a contact sport played between two teams of 18 players on an oval field, often a modified cricket ground. Points are scored by k ...

administrator who is a former player and coach.

Playing career

Dorrington played 45 matches for in the

Western Australian National Football League The West Australian Football League (WAFL) is an Australian rules football league based in Perth, Western Australia. The league currently consists of ten teams, which play each other in a 20-round season usually lasting from March to September, ...

(WANFL) between 1967 and 1972. Dorrington's premature retirement came after doctors advised him to stop playing after a series of knocks to the head in early 1972.

Coaching and administration career

Dorrington joined the coaching ranks in the late 1970s and was assistant to Barry Cable when East Perth won the

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. In 1980, Dorrington was appointed head coach of East Perth, serving two seasons. Dorrington returned to coaching in 1985 when he was coach of the Western Australian team at the

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. He joined the

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and has at various times been the Director of Football, General Manager of the Football Development Trust and of the West Australian Football League and Director of Pathways and Competition.

Road safety

Dorrington was the chairman of the Western Australian Road Safety Council between 1997 and 2009.

Honours

In 1979 Dorrington was awarded the

British Empire Medal The British Empire Medal (BEM; formerly British Empire Medal for Meritorious Service) is a British and Commonwealth award for meritorious civil or military service worthy of recognition by the Crown. The current honour was created in 1922 to ...

(BEM) for services to the Western Australian sesquicentennial. Dorrington received the Medal of the Order of Australia (OAM) for services to road safety and Australian rules football in Western Australia.

References

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