Col Saddington | |
Fullname: | Colin Keith Saddington |
Birth Date: | 26 June 1937 |
Death Date: | [1] |
Originalteam: | Richmond City Jrs |
Height: | 180 cm |
Weight: | 89 kg |
Position: | Ruckman, back pocket |
Statsend: | 1962 |
Years1: | 1956–1962 |
Club1: | Richmond |
Games Goals1: | 102 (10) |
Colin Keith Saddington (26 June 1937 – 18 April 2012) was an Australian rules footballer who played with Richmond in the Victorian Football League (VFL).
Saddington was a ruckman and occasional defender, recruited locally.[2] He polled the equal most votes by a Richmond player in the 1959 Brownlow Medal.[3]
From 1963 to 1965, Saddington played 26 games for Sturt in the South Australian National Football League.[4]
He spent the rest of the decade as playing coach of Western Border Football League club Coleraine, guiding them to a premiership in 1967.[5]
Saddington then returned to Richmond and was put in charge of their Under-19s side.[6] He was later coach of the Richmond reserves team.[7] Saddington coached the reserves side to a premiership in 1973; that same year he was awarded a life membership. He retired from coaching after the 1975 season.