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Australian rules footballer

Gordon Abbott
Personal information
Full name	Gordon Allen Abbott
Date of birth	(1914-09-26)26 September 1914
Place of birth	Hobart, Tasmania
Date of death	19 April 1986(1986-04-19) (aged 71)
Original team(s)	Lefroy (TANFL)
Height	185 cm (6 ft 1 in)
Weight	91 kg (201 lb)
Playing career
Years	Club	Games (Goals)
1936–1938	Geelong	050 (27)
1941–1947	Essendon	083 (43)
Total		133 (70)
Playing statistics correct to the end of 1947.
Career highlights
3x VFL premiership player: 1937, 1942, 1946 Tasmanian Football Hall of Fame
Sources: AFL Tables, AustralianFootball.com

Gordon Allen Abbott (26 September 1914 – 19 April 1986) was an Australian rules footballer who played with Geelong and Essendon in the Victorian Football League (VFL).

Football

Debuting with Geelong in 1936, Abbott spent three years with the club which included being a member of Geelong's 1937 premiership team and kicking two goals in the Grand Final. He played mostly as a Ruckman and a forward.

After a period out of the VFL he returned to the league in 1941 and joined Essendon where he would play in two further premierships, in 1942 and 1946.

Notes

"Gordon Abbott - Player Bio". Australian Football. Retrieved 21 November 2014.

References

Maplestone, M., Flying Higher: History of the Essendon Football Club 1872–1996, Essendon Football Club, (Melbourne), 1996. ISBN 0-9591740-2-8

External links

Gordon Abbott's playing statistics from AFL Tables

v t e Geelong Football Club 1937 VFL premiers
Geelong 18.14 (122) defeated Collingwood 12.18 (90), at the Melbourne Cricket Ground
4. Slack 5. Evans 6. Dougherty 7. Abbott 8. Arklay 9. Hore 10. Everett 13. Coles 14. Grant 15. Mahon 16. Quinn 17. Hawking 18. Hickey (c) 21. Sellwood 22. Metherell 25. L. Hardiman 26. Wills 27. P. Hardiman 28. Muller
Coach: Hickey

v t e Essendon Football Club 1942 VFL premiers
Essendon 19.18 (132) defeated Richmond 11.13 (79), at Princes Park
1. Coward 3. D. Reynolds (c) 4. Exelby 5. Caesar 6. Hird 7. Hutchison 8. Plummer 10. Dearle 14. Leehane 15. Buttsworth 19. Cassin 20. Torney 21. Ruddell 22. Lane 25. Abbott 28. Silk 29. T. Reynolds 30. Flanigan 35. Bushby
Coach: D. Reynolds

v t e Essendon Football Club 1946 VFL premiers
Essendon 22.18 (150) defeated Melbourne 13.9 (87), at the Melbourne Cricket Ground
1. Tonkes 2. Rawle 3. Reynolds (c) 5. H. Lambert 6. Hassell 7. Hutchison 13. Harper 14. C. Lambert 15. Buttsworth 18. Gardiner 19. Cassin 20. Pearson 21. Ruddell 22. Lane 23. Brittingham 24. Jones 25. Abbott 31. McClure 32. Equid 35. Bushby
Coach: Reynolds

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