Terry Ingersoll

Terry Ingersoll
Personal information
Full name Terry Ingersoll
Date of birth 18 August 1934
Original team Western Suburbs
Height/Weight 188 cm / 88 kg
Playing career1
Years Club Games (Goals)
1957–1958 Hawthorn 17 (36)
1 Playing statistics to end of 1958 season .

Terry Ingersoll (born 18 August 1934) is a former Australian rules footballer who played with Hawthorn in the Victorian Football League (VFL).

Career

Ingersoll, a full-forward, had a prolific season for Western Suburbs in 1956, breaking the NSW Australian Football Association record for most goals in a year. He kicked 101 goals in the home and away season, which included 15 and 17 goal hauls in successive weeks, against Balmain and St George respectively.[1][2]

He wrote his name into the record books again at Hawthorn, when he kicked a club record five goals on debut, in the opening round of the season, against Carlton at Princes Park.[3] By the end of the season he had kicked 33 goals, topping Hawthorn's goal-kicking and winning their "Best First Year Player" award.[4][5] He struggled for form in 1958 and was confined to the reserves for much of the year, before a family illness caused him to return to Sydney.[6]

References

  1. ^ Sydney Morning Herald,"Rules Man Equals A Record", 15 August 1956, p. 7
  2. ^ Sydney Morning Herald,"Rules Man Kicks 17 Goals", 7 August 1955, p. 26
  3. ^ AFL Tables: Terry Ingersoll
  4. ^ Lovett, Michael (2004). AFL 2004 – The Official Statistical History Of The AFL. AFL Publishing. ISBN 0958030057. 
  5. ^ Holmesby, Russell & Main, Jim (2007). The Encyclopedia Of AFL Footballers. BAS Publishing. ISBN 9781920910785. 
  6. ^ The Age,"Howells in Doubt for First Game", 4 March 1959, p. 1