George Goninon
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| Birth | 18th April 1927, |
| Recruited from | Burnie, (Tasmania) |
| Height and weight | 181 cm, 79 kg |
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| Debut | 1948, Essendon vs. , at |
| Team(s) | Geelong
9 career games; 11 goals
78 career games; 278 goals |
| ¹ Statistics to end of 1955 season | |
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George Goninon (Born 18th April 1927) is a former Australian rules footballer in the Tasmanian NWFL and VFL.
George Goninon was Geelong's champion goalkicker at full-forward in the 1951 and 1952 Grand Final wins and going strong in 1953 with the Cats hot favourites to make it three in a row.
But he was inexplicably dropped from the team, which lost the flag to Collingwood by two goals.
In 2007, now 80 and living on the Gold Coast, the twice-married Goninon claimed he was a victim of the times, a strict church-on-Sundays age when the rule book was everything. Being a married man, he had an affair with a pretty nurse and he was dobbed in.
Geelong with 90 percent church goers frowned on him and dropped him out of the team in the final series after kicking 65 goals in 18 games in 1953.
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