1. George Ronald Doig was an Australian rules footballer who played for and later coached the East Fremantle Football Club in the Western Australian National Football League.
30 Facts About George Doig
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George Doig kicked more than 100 goals in a season nine times, which included a haul of 152 goals in 1934 that set an elite record which was not broken until Bernie Naylor kicked 167 goals in 1953.
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George Doig captained the club for two seasons, from 1940 to 1941, filling the role of coach during the first season.
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George Doig represented the Western Australian state side in 14 matches, kicking 62 goals.
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George Doig was inducted into the Australian Football Hall of Fame in 2002, and was named as a "Legend" in the West Australian Football Hall of Fame in 2004.
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George Doig was named at full forward in East Fremantle's Team of the Century, and the Fremantle Football Hall of Legends.
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George Doig was a member of the George Doig sporting family which produced 17 WAFL footballers.
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George Doig attended Fremantle Boys' School in Fremantle, but played "little football" at school.
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In 1931, George Doig played for an East Fremantle side in the Fremantle Suburban Football Association, a local competition.
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In one match against Palmyra at Fremantle Park, George Doig kicked his team's entire score, 26 goals and 20 behinds, to Palmyra's seven goals and seven behinds.
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In 1933, George Doig was promoted to the League team at East Fremantle.
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In 1945, at the request of the committee, George Doig returned to play eight games; he kicked 23 goals, and helped East Fremantle win the Premiership.
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George Doig kicked an aggregate of 1072 goals in his nine consecutive seasons from 1933 to 1941 with East Fremantle.
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George Doig represented Western Australia on fourteen occasions and kicked 62 goals in interstate matches.
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Fremantle's best and fairest award, the George Doig Medal, is named for the George Doig family, 17 of which have played football at senior level in Western Australia over three generations.
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George Doig is a member of the West Australian Football Hall of Fame and has legend status.
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George Doig married Margaret Jean Mossman on Saturday, 21 August 1937, at the Old Scots Church in Fremantle.
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At a club meeting on 9 April, George Doig was re-elected captain for the 1941 season.
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George Doig was elected as one of two players' representatives to the general committee, along with R Daniel.
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George Doig kicked his 1000th career goal against Claremont at Fremantle Oval on Saturday, 5 July 1941, becoming the fourth player in the "Big Three" football leagues to reach this mark, after Gordon Coventry, Ken Farmer, and Ted Tyson.
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George Doig had started the match with 998 goals to his credit, and nine minutes after the start of play, had scored the two goals required to reach the milestone.
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George Doig led the WANFL's goalkicking, for the first time since 1937, which marked the sixth time he had filled this role, a record not equalled until 1954, by Bernie Naylor, and not broken until 1971, by Austin Robertson, Jr.
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George Doig returned to football in round 14 of the 1945 season, against East Perth at Fremantle Oval, kicking seven goals.
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Whether he moves right, left, or forward George Doig has a perfect understanding with his teammates, who, in turn, unselfishly do everything to get the ball to him.
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George Doig died at his home in Bicton on 27 November 2006, at the age of 93.
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George Doig was made a life member of the East Fremantle Football Club at a club reunion held at the Fremantle Town Hall in February 1949.
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Jerry Dolan, who had previously coached George Doig, called him "an ornament to the game and an example in every respect", emphasising his position as a role model to "present-day players who had found the going hard".
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George Doig was inducted into the Western Australian Institute of Sport's Hall of Champions in September 1988.
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George Doig was named in East Fremantle's Team of the Century, named in 1997 as part of the club's centenary celebrations, and was an initial inductee into the Fremantle Football Hall of Legends, inaugurated in 1995 by the Fremantle Football Club.
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George Doig presented the award until his death, when his son, Don, took over.