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Fred Fanning
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Personal information |
| Birth |
5 November 1921 |
| Recruited from |
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| Height and weight |
193cm (6'4") / 102 kg |
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Playing career¹ |
| Debut |
1940, Melbourne vs. , at |
| Team(s) |
Melbourne (1940-47)
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| ¹ Statistics
to end of 1947 season |
| Career
highlights |
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Fred Fanning (born 5 November 1921) is a former
Australian rules footballer
who played for Melbourne in the VFL. He was a strongly built
forward who stood at 193 cm and weighed 102 kg and, prior
to the Coleman
Medal, topped the league's goal kicking charts in 1943 (62
goals), 1944 (87) and 1945 (67).[1]
Fanning made his debut in 1940 and played in that year's Grand
Final victory over the Richmond Tigers. 5
years later he won the Best and Fairest
award.
In Round 19, 1947 he kicked 18 goals, 1 point in a game against
St Kilda which is a record for most goals in a
VFL/AFL match, still standing to this day.[2]
Remarkably, this was also Fanning's final VFL/AFL appearance.
He joined Victorian country team Hamilton in 1948 after being
offered three times the salary he was received at Melbourne.
Despite finishing 1947 with a career best 97 goals it would be his
last in the VFL, he was aged just twenty five.
In September 1939, playing for Melbourne Seconds against Richmond in the Seconds' Grand
Final — Melbourne 22.12 (144) to Richmond 17.13 (115) — Fanning
kicked a drop kick that travelled an astounding distance of 116
yards (348ft, 105.5m).[1]
References
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