Bill Goggin
Bill Goggin | |||
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Personal information | |||
Date of birth | 4 January 1941 | ||
Original team(s) | North Geelong | ||
Height | 175 cm (5 ft 9 in) | ||
Weight | 70 kg (154 lb) | ||
Playing career1 | |||
Years | Club | Games (Goals) | |
1958–1971 | Geelong | 248 (279) | |
Representative team honours | |||
Years | Team | Games (Goals) | |
Victoria | 14 (22) | ||
Coaching career3 | |||
Years | Club | Games (W–L–D) | |
1976–1978 | Footscray | 46 (21–23–2) | |
1980–1982 | Geelong | 71 (41–30–0) | |
Total | 117 (62–53–2) | ||
1 Playing statistics correct to the end of 1971. 3 Coaching statistics correct as of 1982. | |||
Career highlights | |||
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Sources: AFL Tables, AustralianFootball.com |
William Goggin (born 4 January 1941) is a former
Family
His brother Matt also played for Geelong, and other brother Charlie is a racehorse trainer in Tasmania. Charlie's son Mathew Goggin, is a golfer on the PGA Tour.[1][2]
Football
A member of the
On 6 July 1963 he was a member of the Geelong team that were comprehensively and unexpectedly beaten
Coach
After retiring from the VFL, Goggin coached
Goggin coached Geelong to successive Preliminary final appearances in 1980 and 1981, losing on both occasions to Collingwood in tight games. After Geelong only won seven games and crashed to ninth in 1982, Goggin contacted the club shortly after the end of the home-and-away rounds to say he would not seek reappointment as coach for the following season.[4] He subsequently took up a board position at the club.
Australian Football Hall of Fame
He was inducted into the
Athletics
Goggin was also an accomplished sprinter, competing on the professional running circuit in the mid-1960s. He won the 1964 Ballarat Gift.
See also
- 1963 Miracle Match
Footnotes
- ^ McClure, Geoff (5 December 2007). "Now America is agog with Cats and AFL". The Age. Melbourne.
- ^ "Goggin takes step back from the big show to share in his mother's glory". 12 November 2008.
- ^ "Geelong West St Peters Football Club greats". Geelong West St Peters Football Club. Archived from the original on 31 October 2014. Retrieved 19 April 2014.
- ^ "AUSTRALIAN FOOTBALL Goggin quits – Hafey talks to Cats' president". The Canberra Times. Vol. 57, no. 17, 147. Australian Capital Territory, Australia. 8 September 1982. p. 43. Retrieved 26 June 2021 – via National Library of Australia.
- ^ "Hall of Fame players".
References
External links
- Bill Goggin's playing statistics from AFL Tables
- Bill Goggin's coaching statistics from AFL Tables
- Bill Goggin at AustralianFootball.com
- AFL Hall of Fame – Players