Ken Farmer

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Ken Farmer
Farmer in 1933
Personal information
Full name	Kenneth William George Farmer
Date of birth	(1910-07-25)25 July 1910
Place of birth	North Adelaide, South Australia
Date of death	5 March 1982(1982-03-05) (aged 71)
Place of death	Modbury, South Australia
Position(s)	Full-forward
Playing career1
Years	Club	Games (Goals)
1929–1941	North Adelaide	224 (1417)
Representative team honours
Years	Team	Games (Goals)
1930–1941	South Australia	17 (81)
Coaching career
Years	Club	Games (W–L–D)
1949–1952	North Adelaide	76 (53–23–0)
1 Playing statistics correct to the end of 1941.
Career highlights
2× SANFL Premiership player: (1930, 1931) 2× SANFL Premiership coach: (1949, 1952) 13x North Adelaide leading goal-kicker (1929–1941) 11x SANFL Leading Goalkicker (1930–1940) North Adelaide captain: (1934–35, 1937–38, 1941) North Adelaide Best & Fairest 1936 South Australian State Coach 1954 North Adelaide Football Club Team of the Century – Full-forward SANFL Team of the Century – Full-forward Official Icon of the North Adelaide Football Club Australian Football Hall of Fame, inducted 1998 South Australian Football Hall of Fame, inducted 2002
Source: AustralianFootball.com

Kenneth William George Farmer (25 July 1910 – 5 March 1982) was an Australian rules footballer who played for the North Adelaide Football Club in the South Australian National Football League (SANFL).

Dubbed the 'Bradman of football' in South Australia (contemporary East Fremantle footballer George Doig was given the same nickname in Western Australia),^[1] Farmer is the most prolific full-forward in elite Australian rules football. He is the only SANFL player to have scored 1,000 or more career goals in premiership matches, and also coached North Adelaide to two premierships.