AUSTRALIAN RULES FOOTBALL – ESSENDON – Biography –

Biography of Essendon football legend John Coleman. Foreword by Wayne Miller. Illustrated with b&w photographs. Includes career highlights, plus statistics. From rear cover: “He was Aussie Rules’ first true superstar – a champion who could turn a game with a burst of goals in a matter of minutes. At just 20 he kicked 12 goals in his first game – a record that has never been matched. Overnight the humble, honest country boy received the adulation and admiration of the entire football public and the attention of some of the toughest full-backs in football history. In his first year he kicked 100 goals, won Essendon’s best and fairest, played in a premiership team and broke a number of long standing goal kicking records. And it got better in the years that followed”

• viii, 168 p. : ill, ; 21 cm. #070325
• Essendon Football Club
• Coleman, John. 1928-1973
• Australian football — Biography
• Football players — Australia — Biography