Gordon Coulter Explained

Gordon Coulter
Fullname:George Gordon Coulter
Birth Date:5 October 1898
Birth Place:Albert Park, Victoria
Death Place:Toorak, Victoria
Originalteam:Queens College / Middle Park
Statsend:1919
Years1:1919
Games Goals1:8 (2)

Gordon Coulter (5 October 1898 – 14 November 1971) was a former Australian rules footballer who played with Melbourne in the Victorian Football League (VFL).[1]

Coulter was the originator of the 1930 Coulter Law, which prescribed a maximum payer to VFL players, a racehorse owner, a leading Melbourne golfer, a director of Carlton and United Breweries and the City Mutual Life Assurance Society, and was elected to the Melbourne Council in 1951.[2]

Notes and References

  1. Book: Holmesby, Russell. The Encyclopedia of AFL Footballers: every AFL/VFL player since 1897 . Main. Jim . 2009 . 8th . 978-1-921496-00-4 . BAS Publishing . Seaford, Victoria . 182.
  2. Sporting Globe, "And Now He's Cr. Coulter", 21 March 1951, p. 11.