George Doig

George Doig
Personal information
Full name	George Ronald Doig
Date of birth	(1913-05-25)25 May 1913
Place of birth	Fremantle, Western Australia
Date of death	27 November 2006(2006-11-27) (aged 93)
Place of death	Bicton, Western Australia
Original team(s)	East Fremantle (FSFA)
Height	173 cm (5 ft 8 in)[1]
Weight	66 kg (146 lb)[1]
Position(s)	Full-forward
Playing career1
Years	Club	Games (Goals)
1933–1945	East Fremantle	202 (1095)
Representative team honours
Years	Team	Games (Goals)
1934–1939	Western Australia	14 (62)
Coaching career3
Years	Club	Games (W–L–D)
1940	East Fremantle	22 (15–6–1)
1 Playing statistics correct to the end of 1945. 2 State and international statistics correct as of 1939. 3 Coaching statistics correct as of 1940.
Career highlights
3× WANFL Premiership player: (1933, 1937, 1945) 6× WANFL Leading goalkicker: (1933, 1934, 1935, 1936, 1937, 1941) East Fremantle leading goalkicker 1933–41 East Fremantle captain 1940–41 East Fremantle life member (1949) Fremantle Football Hall of Legends (1995) East Fremantle Team of the Century (1997) The West Australian Team of the Century (2000) Australian Football Hall of Fame, inducted 2002 West Australian Football Hall of Fame, inaugural Legend 2004
Source: AustralianFootball.com

George Ronald Doig (25 May 1913 – 27 November 2006) was an Australian rules footballer who played for and later coached the East Fremantle Football Club in the Western Australian National Football League (WANFL). A member of the Doig sporting family, Doig kicked 1095 goals from his 202 games playing almost exclusively as a forward, becoming East Fremantle's leading goalkicker of all-time, and leading the WANFL's goalkicking on six occasions. He 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 (South Fremantle) kicked 167 goals in 1953. Doig captained the club for two seasons, from 1940 to 1941, also filling the role of coach during the first season.

Doig also represented the Western Australian state side in 14 matches, kicking 62 goals. He 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. Doig was named at full forward in East Fremantle's Team of the Century, and the Fremantle Football Hall of Legends.