John Coleman (Australian footballer)
John Douglas Coleman was an Australian rules footballer who played for and coached the Essendon Football Club in the Victorian Football League (VFL).
Coleman, 1949
Coleman during training
John Coleman taking a spectacular mark over North Melbourne's full-back, Vic Lawrence, on Saturday, 30 May 1953, with Essendon's Stan Booth waiting for "the crumbs".
A distraught Coleman leaves Harrison House after his suspension on the eve of the 1951 finals series.
The Essendon Football Club, nicknamed the Bombers, is a professional Australian rules football club. The club plays in the Australian Football League (AFL), the game's premier competition. The club was formed by the McCracken family in their Ascot Vale home "Alisa", and while the exact date is unknown, it is generally accepted to have been in 1872. The club's first recorded game took place on 7 June 1873 against a Carlton seconds team. From 1878 until 1896, the club played in the Victorian Football Association (VFA), then joined seven other clubs in October 1896 to form the breakaway Victorian Football League. Headquartered at the Essendon Recreation Ground, known as Windy Hill, from 1922 to 2013, the club moved to The Hangar in Tullamarine in late 2013 on land owned by the Melbourne Airport corporation. The club shares its home games between Docklands Stadium and the Melbourne Cricket Ground. Zach Merrett is the current club captain.
Essendon players and officials c.1878
Scenes from the 1891 VFA Premiership Match in which Essendon defeated Carlton
The Essendon side that won the 1897 VFL premiership
Dave Smith captained Essendon to premiership success in 1911.
