Jim McColl (footballer)

Jim McColl (17 June 1933 – 5 October 2013) was an Australian rules footballer who played with Essendon in the Victorian Football League (VFL).[1] He was third in the Gardiner Medal, awarded to the best and fairest player in the VFL reserves competition, in 1954 and in 1957 he won Essendon's reserves best and fairest.

Jim McColl
Personal information
Full name Jim C. McColl
Date of birth (1933-06-17)17 June 1933
Date of death 5 October 2013(2013-10-05) (aged 80)
Original team(s) Geelong College, University Blacks, Dookie Agricultural College
Height 189 cm (6 ft 2 in)
Weight 89 kg (196 lb)
Position(s) Key defender
Playing career1
Years Club Games (Goals)
1954, 1957 Essendon 3 (0)
1 Playing statistics correct to the end of 1957.
Sources: AFL Tables, AustralianFootball.com

McColl also played in the country for City United in the Goulburn Valley Football League, and was captain-coach of Katamatite and Strathmerton.

Notes
  1. Holmesby, Russell; Main, Jim (2014). The Encyclopedia of AFL Footballers: every AFL/VFL player since 1897 (10th ed.). Seaford, Victoria: BAS Publishing. p. 568. ISBN 978-1-921496-32-5.
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