Brian Keith Faehse was an Australian rules football player who played his league career with West Adelaide in the South Australian National Football League between 1944 and 1956.
15 Facts About Brian Faehse
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Brian Faehse made his league debut with the wartime West Adelaide-Glenelg combination on 27 May 1944, initially in the Ruck.
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Brian Faehse would go on to play seven more games before a broken ankle put him out for the season, the longest layoff throughout his football career.
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Brian Faehse was a member of West Adelaide's 1947 premiership side which defeated Norwood 10.15 to 5.15 in front of just over 32,000 fans.
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Brian Faehse was involved in an incident with Port Adelaide player Dave Boyd just before half-time of the 1954 SANFL Grand Final.
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Brian Faehse had flattened Boyd with what umpire Ken Aplin considered to be a fair bump.
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Brian Faehse was given the honor of being the first player to use the tunnel when as captain he led West onto the field for a game against Norwood in 1955.
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Brian Faehse retired from league football after the 1956 Grand Final loss to Port Adelaide having played 222 games, including 128 consecutive games earning him the nickname Iron Man, and kicking 60 goals for the club over 13 seasons.
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Brian Faehse represented South Australia with distinction 19 times between 1948 and 1956 and played in the 1950,1953 and 1956 Australian National Football Carnivals.
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Brian Faehse was a players' representative on the club's management committee from 1948 to 1955 and after retiring in 1956 was elected to the club's board by its members in 1958.
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Brian Faehse was one of the prime movers to get West Adelaide their own home ground and was a member of the sub-committee which negotiated the lease of the land that is the club's home ground from the West Torrens Council.
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Brian Faehse organised the plan of the oval and arranged the original earthmoving, clearing and levelling of the site.
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Brian Faehse Stand in the 2000s in honor of his services to the West Adelaide Football Club.
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Brian Faehse was appointed to the position of SANFL Tribunal Commissioner in 1964 and held the position for 15 years and was an inaugural inductee into the South Australian Football Hall of Fame in 2002.
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Brian Faehse was an inaugural inductee into the West Adelaide Hall of Fame in 2005 and was elevated to Legend status in 2011 alongside the club's only other official legend, former team mate Neil Kerley.