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Goalkicking legend John Coleman - rare footage found! VFL Semi Final 1953
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- čas přidán 5. 06. 2014
- Sixty years after the career of one of Australian Rules football's greatest players came to a sudden end, rare footage of Essendon champion John Coleman has been re-discovered, preserved and released by the NFSA. This silent colour 16mm film of action at the Melbourne Cricket Ground from the 1953 Victorian Football League (VFL) First Semi Final between Footscray and Essendon features the forward contesting marks against perhaps his toughest opponent, Footscray Full Back Herb Henderson.
The footage commences with an Essendon-supporting child wrapping up his guernsey for another season. Then follows both teams entering the ground with a blink and you'll miss Coleman, as vice-captain, leading the Bombers out on the ground through the banner.
Captain Bill Hutchison, enters last through a team guard of honour in recognition of his Brownlow Medal victory, won earlier in the week. Then the action commences as the two teams battle out a hard fought close, low scoring contest marred by the nearly 100kph gale force winds which made conditions particularly difficult for marking forwards.
Despite kicking an early goal in the first quarter (not captured on film), Coleman's poor physical state, combined with the heavy wind and pitted against arguably his toughest opponent, Footscray/Western Bulldogs Team of The Century Fullback Herb Henderson, would see him held goalless for the rest of the game. A shadow of his usual energetic self, The Argus' match report would describe Coleman's appearance as "ashen and gaunt [and] palpably unfit". It is with some sad irony that this unearthed film captures Coleman's worst performance of the 1953 season.
Coleman aside, the discovery of the reel is also memorable for Footscray/Western Bulldogs supporters. Having lost all 6 of their previous final's appearances since their first in 1938, the Bulldogs, lead by charismatic captain Charlie Sutton, would taste their first finals victory on this day, winning the low scoring contest by 8 points, 6 13 49 to 5 11 41.
Several passages of play feature young Bulldogs recruit and future 'Mr Football' Ted Whitten (wearing his famous no. 3) and in what might be considered in today's football parlance a 'gang tackle', Sutton (no. 6) and defender Angus Abbey (no. 30) win a free kick in bringing down speedy Essendon winger Lance Mann. The resultant play leads to Bulldog Lionel "Nappy" Ollington (no. 8) -- the legendary 'two-up' proponent - kicking towards the Footscray forward line, upon which the film abruptly ends.
Read more about the discovery of this rare footage: www.nfsa.gov.a...
NFSA Title No: 1223446
Great footage. Also good to see the legendary EJ Whitten strutting his stuff for the Doggies in number 3.
It's amazing the goal posts are not padded and the amount of players wearing long sleeves.
@J G *football
Fantastic find. Lots of stars in both sides including Footscray's Charlie Sutton (#6), Ted Whitten (#3), Roger Duffy (#7), Peter Box (#5), Wally Donald (#22) and Herb Henderson (#25), and Essendon's Billy Hutchison (#7), a reportedly sick John Coleman (#10) and Norm McDonald (#4). Jack Clarke (#1) clearly at 0:25. The great Doug Bigelow (#19) on the mark at 2:18. Geoff Leek kicking a goal at 4:10. Probably not John Gill's finest moment at 4:40. Any older Footscray fans out there? Who is the mystery player #11 seen a few times including in the ruck at 4:55? AFL Tables has no listing for a #11 in that match. #11 for Footscray in 1953 was Len Kent, but he's not listed in that game. I'm wondering if it might be Arthur Edwards (listed as #21 in 1953 in AFL Tables but as #11 in subsequent seasons).
@J G How’s therapy going?
Bring back Footscray!!!!!
loved watching this footage
@Dan Sheppard Ye old Fitzroy Lions.
4:37, example of why the dropkick is no longer used.
+hirdy6 I don't even think that is an attempted dropkick. Looks like some weird tumble punt.
Effective kick for those who can kick them
As time passed into the 60s & the players became fitter & the game faster, the drop kick became outdated. A difficult kick to perform consistently & this is demonstrated if you watch games from the 60s onwards.
I have rarely seen a decent attempt of a drop kick in all of these archival footage.
And the football played is generally crap!
@@whatwouldiknow1759 Your name is relevant
Love the look of the old Southern Stand in these old videos. Looks gigantic.
I sat in that Stand many times but what I've never seen and can't bet over is everything to the right of that. I always thought it wrong to ...change the Southern Stand and that's only been reinforced. No idea why Perth needed Optus given how fantastic and historic the WACA was too.
Was dustin fletcher out there then ?
are you outta your mind
rubinsteve1 Bickell idiot
Yeah, I think he had already played 50 or so games by then 😂
I don't want to look at old games any more. The Bulldogs were premiers the next year and after seeing that game,the standard of the Game was poor. How did the Bulldogs win in 54? Didn't see Ted Whitten. Coleman had a bad day.
@@brucekilby9957 Bulldogs played Melbourne in the 1954 Grand Final
Footscray 6.13.49 (Goals: Harper 2, Ollington, Trusler, Gilmore, Kerr) defeated Essendon 5.11.41 (Goals: Hutchison 2, Coleman, Syme, Leek).
I thought both teams always scored over 100 points per game before the modern day game. 🙄
No 1953 Meatloaf equivalent for the pre match entertainment?
Crowd signs: "Good luck" and "Attem Bombers"
Walter Kingstone up and at them
Wally Donald. The No.22 for Footscray!
Holy crap, those Auskick players were quite tall back in those days!
Daniel Jeffery good to see you showing respect for the pioneers of our game....you absolute flog
I think they looked tall because they were all skinny.
@@wheelson7895 Sorry mate but this football is generally crap! And pioneers of the game from the 50s! It started back in the mid-1800s!
Golfnut absolutely zero respect....and crap? Let’s remember that these guys were the best in the world at this sport at this point in time....fuck have you done with your life
They had colour video back in the 50s?
I didn't know that. Thank you. :)
Jason Carpp It's colour 16mm film, not video.
Well that was underwhelming
To be perfectly frank, mat, many of us wouldn't get a game in today's amateurs. We should compare apples and apples...not apples and oranges. The lives and times and technologies...boots, training regimes, balls, grounds, opponents...are all very different from today's more polished, artificial, less-populist game that quite frankly, matly, is not the game I grew to love all those years ago. Anyway...give him his due. He had talent, as I'm sure you have, frankmat. Just not in some things...
If that's a snippet of the football & Coleman back then, well the football looked disorganised, the kicking was atrocious & Coleman couldn't mark or have any judgement to save himself.
Going on that goal umpire flag flapping vigorously in the wind towards the end of this video the conditions on the day were obviously very windy , reducing the skill level for the players . Coleman attempts to mark but in those conditions and under pressure on a couple of occasions he failed to judge the flight of the ball . I'm pretty sure if you saw him ripping down a big mark off a lead we'd have seen him at his brilliant best .
@@shaneb3926
There were very few goals scored too...the guy above is na 8 yr old that says the same on every game before 2010
Bit harsh judging a bloke on one game.
Football "boots" and torpedo kicks.
Definitive proof that Coleman was overrated. Also shows how old footballers always talk up their own generation more than they deserve to be talked up. Coleman wouldn't get a game in Amateurs these days.
I am not a Dons fan, so I am impartial when I say: just look at his numbers. The bloke simply kicked a ton of goals in his own era. 12 goals on debut, averaged over 5 per game for the rest of his career, then coached them to 2 flags. Reasonable effort.
didn't you read the description? here, i'll quote the relevant parts for you
"the two teams battle out a hard fought close, low scoring contest marred by the nearly 100kph gale force winds which made conditions particularly difficult for marking forwards. .... Despite kicking an early goal in the first quarter (not captured on film), Coleman's poor physical state, combined with the heavy wind and pitted against arguably his toughest opponent, Footscray/Western Bulldogs Team of The Century Fullback Herb Henderson, would see him held goalless for the rest of the game. A shadow of his usual energetic self, The Argus' match report would describe Coleman's appearance as "ashen and gaunt [and] palpably unfit". It is with some sad irony that this unearthed film captures Coleman's worst performance of the 1953 season."
frankmat this doesn't even deserve an abusive reply
Damian Del Pizzo I'm sure if there were performance enhancing drugs back then Coleman would have taken the. It's the culture. He obviously forgot to take them that day this video was shot because he was awful.
+frankmat Well I wouldn't say anything he'd probably kick a solid 15 goals+ on either of us.