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On this day in Australian Football: October 3

Big Stats - Players

Behinds
1931: Tommy Quinn kicked 5 behinds for Geelong against Carlton (V/AFL, Premiership Season, PF)
1931: Fred Gilby kicked 8 behinds for Carlton against Geelong (V/AFL, Premiership Season, PF)
1936: Vin Doherty kicked 5 behinds for Collingwood against South Melbourne (V/AFL, Premiership Season, GF)
1936: Ron Todd kicked 9 behinds for Collingwood against South Melbourne (V/AFL, Premiership Season, GF)
1936: Bob Pratt kicked 5 behinds for South Melbourne against Collingwood (V/AFL, Premiership Season, GF)
Kicks
1931: Len Metherell had 37 kicks for Geelong vs. Carlton (V/AFL, Premiership Season, PF)
1931: Charlie Davey had 29 kicks for Carlton vs. Geelong (V/AFL, Premiership Season, PF)
1931: Frank Gill had 25 kicks for Carlton vs. Geelong (V/AFL, Premiership Season, PF)
1936: Alby Pannam had 32 kicks for Collingwood vs. South Melbourne (V/AFL, Premiership Season, GF)
1936: Laurie Nash had 25 kicks for South Melbourne vs. Collingwood (V/AFL, Premiership Season, GF)
Marks
1931: Charlie Davey took 15 marks for Carlton vs. Geelong (V/AFL, Premiership Season, PF)
Frees for
1931: Arthur Coghlan received 7 frees for Geelong vs. Carlton (V/AFL, Premiership Season, PF)
1931: Milton Lamb received 7 frees for Geelong vs. Carlton (V/AFL, Premiership Season, PF)
1931: Jack Walker received 7 frees for Geelong vs. Carlton (V/AFL, Premiership Season, PF)
1931: Frank Gill received 8 frees for Carlton vs. Geelong (V/AFL, Premiership Season, PF)

Player Milestones

Last game
1925: George Heinz played his last game for Melbourne (V/AFL, Premiership Season, PF)
1925: Charlie Lilley played his last game for Melbourne (V/AFL, Premiership Season, PF)
1931: Arthur Rayson played his last game for Geelong (V/AFL, Premiership Season, PF)
1931: Alex Doyle played his last game for Carlton (V/AFL, Premiership Season, PF)
1936: Jack Bisset played his last game for South Melbourne (V/AFL, Premiership Season, GF)
1936: Dinny Kelleher played his last game for South Melbourne (V/AFL, Premiership Season, GF)
1936: Keith Fraser played his last game for Collingwood (V/AFL, Premiership Season, GF)
2015: Matt Suckling played his last game for Hawthorn (AFL, Premiership Season, GF)
2015: Brian Lake played his last game for Hawthorn (AFL, Premiership Season, GF)
2015: Matt Rosa played his last game for West Coast (AFL, Premiership Season, GF)
2015: David Hale played his last game for Hawthorn (AFL, Premiership Season, GF)
Career games
1931: Arthur Rayson played his 100th V/AFL game: Geelong vs. Carlton (V/AFL, Premiership Season, PF)
2020: Brodie Grundy played his 150th V/AFL game: Collingwood vs. West Coast (AFL, Premiership Season, 1EF)
2020: Taylor Adams played his 150th V/AFL game: Collingwood vs. West Coast (AFL, Premiership Season, 1EF)
Career goals
1925: Percy Tulloh kicked his 100th career V/AFL goal: Melbourne vs. Collingwood (V/AFL, Premiership Season, PF)
2015: Isaac Smith kicked his 100th career V/AFL goal: Hawthorn vs. West Coast (AFL, Premiership Season, GF)
Goals in a season
2015: Jarryd Roughead kicked his 50th goal for the season for Hawthorn vs. West Coast (AFL, Premiership Season, GF)

Big Stats - Teams

Comeback
1931: Geelong won from 47 points down at QT vs. Carlton (V/AFL, Premiership Season, PF)
Big crowds
1936: 74,091 attended Collingwood vs. South Melbourne at M.C.G. (V/AFL, Premiership Season, GF)
2015: 98,633 attended West Coast vs. Hawthorn at M.C.G. (AFL, Premiership Season, GF)

Birth & Deaths

Births
1872: Percy Kekwick (South Adelaide, Sturt)
1880: Tom Crowe (St. Kilda)
1883: Bill Fischer (Melbourne)
1883: Frank Moran (Geelong)
1883: Alan Pentland (South Melbourne)
1892: Harry Curtis (Carlton, Collingwood)
1894: Percy Yates (Collingwood)
1894: Jock Doherty (South Melbourne, North Melbourne)
1896: George Welsh (Fitzroy)
1900: Harry Dussell (Essendon)
1903: Jack McDiarmid (West Perth, Claremont)
1905: George Gibbs (Fitzroy, Collingwood)
1907: Jack Wade (Port Adelaide, South Melbourne)
1912: Tom Tucker (Collingwood)
1912: Eric Shade (Footscray)
1919: Kevin Curran (Richmond)
1920: Ted Tomkins (Fitzroy)
1924: Lionel Upton (North Melbourne)
1924: Jack Sing (Geelong)
1927: Ray Ednie (Richmond)
1934: Reg Carr (Fitzroy)
1935: Bob Dummett (Richmond)
1937: Ray McGaw (Richmond)
1938: Don Palmer (North Melbourne)
1938: Bob Rees (Richmond)
1942: Michael Bone (Collingwood, Wodonga)
1945: Peter Patterson (Collingwood)
1946: Daryl Mares (Hawthorn)
1948: Bob Langford (Melbourne)
1948: Bill Sykes (Fitzroy)
1948: Ron Stubbs (Hawthorn)
1949: Ron Best
1954: Geoff Morris (West Adelaide)
1955: Tony Buhagiar (East Fremantle, Essendon, Footscray)
1958: Neville Bruns (Geelong, Australia)
1959: Dale Weightman (Richmond, Australia)
1960: Michael Parsons (North Adelaide, Sydney)
1975: Paul Dooley (Western Bulldogs)
1978: Hayden Lamaro (Melbourne)
1991: Mitchell Golby (Brisbane)
1994: Taylah Davies (Greater Western Sydney WFC)
1995: Zach Merrett (Essendon Reserves, Essendon, Australia)
2004: Anthony Munkara (Essendon Reserves)
Deaths
1922: Teddy Johnston (Melbourne)
1932: Jim Darcy (Essendon)
1960: Bill Ayling (Collingwood)
1964: Dick Bailey (Sturt)
1966: George Heinz (Geelong, Melbourne, St. Kilda)
1972: Vin Gardiner (Melbourne, Carlton)
1972: Fred Edwards (Essendon, Melbourne)
1979: Roy Bence (South Melbourne, St. Kilda)
1981: Eric Zschech (Richmond)
1983: Ron Black (Hawthorn)
1989: Ray Thomas (Essendon, South Melbourne)
1990: Bill White (Richmond)
1995: George Hoskins (Fitzroy)
1995: Col Austen (Hawthorn, Richmond, Box Hill)
1997: Geoff Spring (Williamstown, Richmond)
2000: Dick Chirgwin (Richmond, South Melbourne, Footscray, North Melbourne)
2003: Kevin Wright (Fitzroy)
2010: Graham Ryan (North Melbourne)
2012: Max Howell (Carlton)
2012: Warren Canning (Geelong)
2017: Bill McMaster (North Melbourne)

Footnotes

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