Ken Goodland (3 August 1940 – 26 March 1982)
was 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 ...
er who played with
Geelong
Geelong ( ) (Wathawurrung: ''Djilang''/''Djalang'') is a port city in the southeastern Australian state of Victoria, located at the eastern end of Corio Bay (the smaller western portion of Port Phillip Bay) and the left bank of Barwon River, ...
in the
VFL
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 ...
during the early 1960s.
Football
Used mostly as a ruckman or half back, Goodland came off the bench in Geelong's 1963 premiership side.
On 6 July 1963 he was a member of the Geelong team that were comprehensively and unexpectedly beaten
by Fitzroy, 9.13 (67) to 3.13 (31) in the
1963 Miracle Match
The 1963 Miracle Match was an Australian rules football game contested in the second half of the 1963 VFL season home-and-away competition’s round 10 "split round" matches.
The match, between the Fitzroy Football Club and the Geelong Fo ...
.
He had career riddled with injuries, including breaking his leg in the opening game of the 1964 season.
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1963 Miracle Match
The 1963 Miracle Match was an Australian rules football game contested in the second half of the 1963 VFL season home-and-away competition’s round 10 "split round" matches.
The match, between the Fitzroy Football Club and the Geelong Fo ...
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1940 births
Australian rules footballers from Victoria (state)
Geelong Football Club players
Geelong Football Club premiership players
1982 deaths
VFL/AFL premiership players
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