1. John "Jerry" Dolan was an Australian rules footballer and coach in the West Australian Football League before becoming a politician.
16 Facts About Jerry Dolan
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Jerry Dolan played for as well as coached East Fremantle and was a coach at East Perth.
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Jerry Dolan originally played in the Goldfields Football Association with Kalgoorlie City and was recruited to East Fremantle after two seasons.
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Jerry Dolan was used mostly as a centre half forward in his time at East Fremantle and participated in their 1925,1928,1929 and 1931 premiership teams.
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Jerry Dolan played in their 1930 and 1933 premiership sides, as captain-coach.
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Jerry Dolan represented Western Australia at the 1924 Hobart Carnival and captain-coached his state in the 1933 Sydney Carnival.
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Once his playing career ended, Jerry Dolan coached Western Australia at interstate football, from 1946 to 1949.
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Jerry Dolan coached East Perth to a premiership in 1936.
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Secretary of the East Fremantle ALP branch for many years, Jerry Dolan seldom missed a party meeting.
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Jerry Dolan had frequent contact with John Curtin and as early as 1933 was campaign manager for John Tonkin.
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Jerry Dolan had won the West Province by-election, which came about when sitting member Evan Davies died.
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Jerry Dolan served as minister for Police, Transport and Railways from March 1971 to May 1973.
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In 1986, the year of his death, Jerry Dolan was inducted into the Western Australian Hall of Champions, honouring his contribution to Australian rules football.
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Jerry Dolan was named as coach of East Fremantle's Team of the Century in 1997.
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Jerry Dolan was one of the inaugural inductees into the West Australian Football Hall of Fame in 2004 and in 2007 was named as coach of the Fremantle Team of Legends.
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Jerry Dolan was an inaugural legend in the East Fremantle Football Club Hall of Fame.