Harold Peter "Hassa" Mann (born 09 October 1940) is a former

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footballer who played for and captained

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in the VFL during the 1960s. He earned the name Hassa when he was a toddler, from his cousin and future Melbourne footballer

Len Mann Len Mann (born 21 August 1938) is a former Australian rules footballer who played for Melbourne in the VFL during the early 1960s. Mann, originally from Merbein, was Melbourne's first choice ruckman in their 1960 premiership side. His cousi ...

. A centreman, Mann was recruited from

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and made his debut for Melbourne in their premiership season of 1959. He was a premiership player again the following season and went on to become the club captain in 1965, a position he kept for four seasons. Mann finished in the top 10 of the Brownlow Medal count four times, including placing equal 7th in 1966 and equal 5th in 1967. He won Melbourne's

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back to back in 1962 and 1963, and for a third time in 1967. He also twice topped their goalkicking, doing so as captain in 1967 and 1968. For his performance for Victoria in the

1966 Hobart Carnival The 1966 Hobart Carnival was the 16th edition of the Australian National Football Carnival, an Australian rules football interstate competition. It was the final time that Tasmania hosted a carnival. It was competed by two Victorian sides, one fr ...

he earned All-Australian selection. After finishing his VFL career in Victoria he became captain-coach at South Fremantle, in Western Australia in the WAFL, winning a best and fairest in his debut season and captain-coaching that club to a Premiership in his second year, 1970. Mann coached Caulfield in the

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in 1981, and he was coach of the 1982

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premiership team. In 2000 he was named at the half forward flank in Melbourne's official 'Team of the Century'. He was inducted into the

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in 2013.

Playing statistics

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1959 Events January * January 1 - Cuba: Fulgencio Batista flees Havana when the forces of Fidel Castro advance. * January 2 - Lunar probe Luna 1 was the first man-made object to attain escape velocity from Earth. It reached the vicinity of E ...

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1960 It is also known as the "Year of Africa" because of major events—particularly the independence of seventeen African nations—that focused global attention on the continent and intensified feelings of Pan-Africanism. Events January * Ja ...

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1961 Events January * January 3 ** United States President Dwight D. Eisenhower announces that the United States has severed diplomatic and consular relations with Cuba ( Cuba–United States relations are restored in 2015). ** Aero Flight 311 ...

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1963 Events January * January 1 – Bogle–Chandler case: Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation scientist Dr. Gilbert Bogle and Mrs. Margaret Chandler are found dead (presumed poisoned), in bushland near the Lane Cov ...

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1964 Events January * January 1 – The Federation of Rhodesia and Nyasaland is dissolved. * January 5 - In the first meeting between leaders of the Roman Catholic and Orthodox churches since the fifteenth century, Pope Paul VI and Patriarch ...

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1965 Events January–February * January 14 – The Prime Minister of Northern Ireland and the Taoiseach of the Republic of Ireland meet for the first time in 43 years. * January 20 ** Lyndon B. Johnson is Second inauguration of Lyndo ...

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Mann, Hassa 1940 births Australian rules footballers from Victoria (Australia) Melbourne Football Club players South Fremantle Football Club players South Fremantle Football Club coaches Keith 'Bluey' Truscott Trophy winners All-Australians (1953–1988) Melbourne Football Club captains Melbourne Football Club CEOs Rutherglen Football Club players Australian Football Hall of Fame inductees Eltham Football Club coaches Living people Melbourne Football Club Premiership players Three-time VFL/AFL Premiership players Caulfield Football Club coaches