Gordon Coulter

Gordon Coulter (5 October 1898 – 14 November 1971) was a former Australian rules footballer who played with Melbourne in the Victorian Football League (VFL).[1]

Gordon Coulter
Personal information
Full name George Gordon Coulter
Date of birth (1898-10-05)5 October 1898
Place of birth Albert Park, Victoria
Date of death 14 November 1971(1971-11-14) (aged 73)
Place of death Toorak, Victoria
Original team(s) Queens College / Middle Park
Playing career1
Years Club Games (Goals)
1919 Melbourne 8 (2)
1 Playing statistics correct to the end of 1919.
Sources: AFL Tables, AustralianFootball.com

Coulter was the originator of the 1930 Coulter Law, which prescribed a maximum payer to VFL players, a racehorse owner, a leading Melbourne golfer, a director of Carlton and United Breweries and the City Mutual Life Assurance Society, and was elected to the Melbourne Council in 1951.[2]

Notes
  1. Holmesby, Russell; Main, Jim (2009). The Encyclopedia of AFL Footballers: every AFL/VFL player since 1897 (8th ed.). Seaford, Victoria: BAS Publishing. p. 182. ISBN 978-1-921496-00-4.
  2. Sporting Globe, "And Now He's Cr. Coulter", 21 March 1951, p. 11.
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