Ron Todd (footballer)

Ron Todd
Personal information
Full name	Ronald Walford Todd
Date of birth	23 October 1916
Date of death	8 February 1991(1991-02-08) (aged 74)
Original team(s)	Victorian Railways
Height	187 cm (6 ft 2 in)
Weight	82 kg (12 st 13 lb)
Position(s)	Forward
Playing career1
Years	Club	Games (Goals)
1935–1939	Collingwood	076 (327)
1940–1941, 1945–1949	Williamstown (VFA)	141 (674)
Representative team honours
Years	Team	Games (Goals)
	Victoria	5 (28)
1 Playing statistics correct to the end of 1949.
Career highlights
VFL Premiership player: (1936) VFA Premiership player: (1945, 1949) VFL Leading Goalkicker Medalist 1938, 1939 VFA Leading Goalkicker 1945, 1946 Australian Football Hall of Fame inductee, 2017
Sources: AFL Tables, AustralianFootball.com

Ronald Walford Todd (23 October 1916 – 8 February 1991)^[1][2] was an Australian rules footballer who played for the Collingwood Football Club in the Victorian Football League (VFL) and the Williamstown Football Club in the Victorian Football Association (VFA). Renowned for his high marking and goalkicking ability, Todd was considered as the logical successor to the legendary Gordon Coventry, but his controversial move to Williamstown, along with teammate and friend Des Fothergill, caused much bitterness at Collingwood for many years afterward. He holds the record for the most goals kicked in a VFA season (188), and his 23 goals in the 1939 VFL finals series stood as a record until it was broken by Gary Ablett Sr. in 1989.