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Full name
Tom Gould

Known as
Tom Gould

Tom Gould


ClubLeagueCareer spanGamesGoalsAvgWin %AKIAHBAMKBV
KedronQFA1963-1967————————
Total1963-1967————————

A member of the Queensland Schoolboys Australian football team in 1957 and 1958, Tom Gould won the J.L. Williams Medal for the Best and Fairest at the 1958 Australian carnival. A brilliant centreline player cum rover who was very quick in thought and deed, he challenges Gordon 'Freckles' Phelan as the best Kedron player of all-time. He also spent two years of a brilliant but short six-year senior career at Windsor-Zillmere. 

An outstanding schoolboy player, he is the youngest ever Grogan Medalist, having won the 1963 award by an equal League record 11 votes as an 18-year-old. He took the League's top honour again in 1965, winning by six votes after only playing 14 of a possible 21 games. Gould represented Queensland four times in an era of limited interstate football. His glittering career was cut short in 1967 by a knee injury. 

He coached various junior teams including Queensland representative squads from 1962 to 1969. 

Author - Murray Bird and Peter Blucher

Footnotes

* Behinds calculated from the 1965 season on.
+ Score at the end of extra time.