- George Goninon
Infobox afl player | firstname = George
lastname = Goninon
birthdate = 18 April 1927
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heightweight = 181 cm, 79 kg
originalteam = Burnie, (Tasmania )
dead = alive
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debutdate = 1948
debutteam = Essendon
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playingteams = Geelong
* Essendon (1948-1950) 9 career games; 11 goals
* Geelong (1950-1955) 78 career games; 278 goals
coach = coach
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statsend = 1955
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* Geelong Premiership 1951, 1952George Goninon (born 18 April 1927) is a former
Australian rules football er in the Tasmanian NWFL and VFL.George Goninon was Geelong's champion goalkicker at full-forward in the 1951 and 1952
Grand Final wins and going strong in 1953 with theCats hot favourites to make it three in a row.But he was inexplicably dropped from the team, which lost the flag to Collingwood by two goals.
In 2007, now 80 and living on the Gold Coast, the twice-married Goninon claimed he was a victim of the times, a strict church-on-Sundays age when the rule book was everything. Being a married man, he had an affair with a pretty nurse and he was dobbed in.
Geelong with 90 percent church goers frowned on him and dropped him out of the team in the final series after kicking 65 goals in 18 games in 1953.
ee also
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1951 VFL season
*1952 VFL season External links
* [http://stats.rleague.com/afl/stats/players/G/George_Goninon.html George Goninon career stats]
References
* [http://www.fullpointsfooty.net/g.htm#George%20Goninon%20(Burnie,%20Essendon,%20Geelong) Profile on FullPointsFooty]
* [http://www.news.com.au/heraldsun/story/0,21985,22463250-2862,00.html Article in Sunday Herald Sun - September 23, 2007]
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