Malcolm Lawrence Pascoe was an Australian rules footballer and coach.
14 Facts About Mal Pascoe
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Mal Pascoe played 94 senior Victorian Football League games for the Essendon Football Club from 1953 to 1958, and played 177 senior Tasmanian Australian National Football League games for the Hobart Football Club from 1959 to 1966.
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Mal Pascoe was captain-coach of Hobart from 1959 to 1965, and non-playing coach of Hobart from 1978 to 1979.
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Mal Pascoe married Kay Alison Forbes on 8 October 1955.
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Mal Pascoe was one of the highly talented 1952 Essendon seconds premiership team that beat Collingwood seconds 7.14 to 4.5.
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Mal Pascoe played mainly as a ruck-rover resting on the backline, sharing the duties with Hugh Mitchell.
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Mal Pascoe was a strong overhead mark, a fearless defender, and widely acknowledged as one of the best drop kicks in the VFL.
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Mal Pascoe played well enough be selected, again, the next week, although on the half-back flank along with Norm McDonald.
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Mal Pascoe played in all of the remaining matches of the 1953 season.
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Mal Pascoe unsuccessfully applied for Essendon's vacant senior coaching position in 1971; the position was awarded to John Birt.
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Mal Pascoe left Essendon at the end of 1958, and was appointed coach of Hobart Football Club in the Tasmanian Australian National Football League in 1959.
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Mal Pascoe was the club's "second pick": ex-Geelong player Bob Davis had been appointed as the club's coach, but decided not to leave Victoria at the last moment, and suggested Pascoe as a suitable replacement.
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On 3 July 2015, Mal Pascoe was inducted into the Tasmanian Football Hall of Fame.
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Mal Pascoe died in Tasmania on 24 August 2020, aged 87.