Bill Goggin

Bill Goggin

Infobox afl player



firstname = Bill
lastname = Goggin


| birthdate = 4 January 1941
birthplace =
heightweight = 175cm / 70kg
originalteam = North Geelong
dead = alive
deathdate =
deathplace =
debutdate = 1958
debutteam = Geelong
debutopponent = South Melbourne
debutstadium =
playingteams = Geelong (1958-1971)
* 248 games
coach = coach
coachingteams =

*Geelong (1980-82)71 matches, (41 wins, 30 losses)
*Footscray (1976-78)46 matches, 21 wins, 23 losses, 2 draws)
statsend = 1982
careerhighlights =

*Geelong Premiership side 1963
*Geelong Best & Fairest 1967 & 1970
*Geelong Captain 1968-71 (84 games)
*Geelong Team of the Century
*Victorian Representative (14 games, 22 goals)
*Australian Football Hall of Fame member

Bill Goggin (born 4 January 1941) is a former Australian rules football player in the Victorian Football League for Geelong Football Club and later coached Footscray and Geelong football clubs. Goggin ranks as one of Geelong's greatest ever players in a career that spanded more than a decade. Goggin was a dual best & fairest winner, premiership player and captain of his beloved Cats.

He was inducted into the Australian Football Hall of Fame in 2000. His citation read "Famous for roving to Graham ‘Polly’ Farmer and pinpointing Doug Wade up forward." His nephew, Mathew Goggin, is a golfer on the PGA Tour.

External links

* [http://stats.rleague.com/afl/stats/players/B/Bill_Goggin.html Bill Goggin career stats]

References

* [http://www.fullpointsfooty.net/g.htm#Bill%20Goggin%20(Geelong,%20Geelong%20West,%20Footscray))) Biography on fullpointsfooty.net]


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