John Coleman (Australian Footballer)
John Douglas Coleman (23 November 1928 – 5 April 1973) was an Australian rules footballer and coach for Essendon in the Victorian Football League (now the AFL).
Coleman ranks as one of the best Australian rules footballers of all time. In a relatively short playing career, Coleman has the second highest goal average in the history of VFL/AFL football. After a knee injury ended his playing career at age 25, he returned to coach Essendon to premiership success. Coleman died in 1973, at the age of 44, of sudden coronary atheroma.
In 98 matches, Coleman had kicked a total of 537 career goals. He kicked 14 goals in a match on one occasion, 13 goals twice, 12 goals once, 11 goals twice, 10 goals six times, 9 goals three times, and 8 goals five times.
Read more about John Coleman (Australian Footballer): Family, Early Days: The Teenage Prodigy, The Instant Sensation, Harry Caspar: "the Man Who Cost Essendon The Flag", Goal-less Coleman, A Strange Coincidence, Coleman's Injury, The Significance of His 537 Goals, Coleman The Businessman, Coleman The Coach, Sudden Death, Legacy
Famous quotes containing the word john:
“Quintilian [educational writer in Rome about A.D. 100] hoped that teachers would be sensitive to individual differences of temperament and ability. . . . Beating, he thought, was usually unnecessary. A teacher who had made the effort to understand his pupil’s individual needs and character could probably dispense with it: “I will content myself with saying that children are helpless and easily victimized, and that therefore no one should be given unlimited power over them.””
—C. John Sommerville (20th century)