John Cahill (footballer)

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John Cahill
Personal information
Full name	John V. Cahill
Date of birth	(1940-04-27) 27 April 1940
Place of birth	Adelaide, South Australia
Original team	South Adelaide (SANFL)
Position(s)	Centre
Playing career¹
Years	Club	Games (Goals)
1958–73	Port Adelaide (SANFL)	264 (286)
Coaching career
Years	Club	Games (W–L–D)
1974–82, 1988–96, 2005 1983–84 1985–87 1997–98 2008	Port Adelaide (SANFL) Collingwood (VFL) West Adelaide (SANFL) Port Adelaide (AFL) South Adelaide (SANFL)	47 (27–20–0) 69 (34–35–0) 44 (19–23–2)
¹ Playing statistics correct to end of 2008 season.
Career highlights
SANFL McCallum Medallist 1956 (Under 17 with South Adelaide) SANFL debut with Port Adelaide in 1958 Port Adelaide Premiership Player 1959, 1962, 1963, 1965 Port Adelaide Best & Fairest 1966, 1968, 1970, 1973 Port Adelaide Club Captain 1968–73 Port Adelaide Leading Goalkicker 1973 (59) Port Adelaide Premiership Coach 1977, 1979–81, 1988–90, 1994–96 West Adelaide Escort Cup Premiership Coach 1985 West Adelaide Foundation Cup Premiership Coach 1987 29 State games for South Australia (Captain: 1969–70) South Australian State Coach Port Adelaide Inaugural AFL Coach 1997 Australian Football Hall of Fame Inductee South Australian Football Hall of Fame Inaugural Inductee 2002

John Cahill (born 27 April 1940) is a former Australian rules football player and coach. During his illustrious career he played football for the Port Adelaide, West Adelaide, South Adelaide in the South Australian National Football League (SANFL) and Collingwood in the Victorian Football League (VFL) and Port Adelaide in the Australian Football League (AFL).

The Port Adelaide Football Club honoured Cahill by naming the award for the club's Best and Fairest player the John Cahill Medal.

SANFL career

Port Adelaide career

Cahill played 264 matches for Port Adelaide and 29 state matches for South Australia from 1958 to 1973. He captained Port Adelaide from 1967 to 1973 and skippered South Australia in 1969 and 1970.

Coaching career

After retiring, Cahill took up coaching. Starting with Port Adelaide, he would lead the club to 10 premierships in the SANFL (1977, 1979–81, 1988–90, 1994–96).

Cahill spent two seasons at the Collingwood Football Club in the VFL (1983–84) where he led them to 6th in 1983 and 3rd in 1984. He then returned to Adelaide where he coached West Adelaide in the SANFL (1985–87), taking the club to 3rd in his first season and the league Night Premierships in 1985 and 1987. But it was Port Adelaide where his heart lay and he returned to Alberton in 1988 and led the club to six more premierships before moving on to coach Port in 1997 and 1998 when they were admitted into the AFL.

After two successful seasons in the AFL, Cahill left the club and, it seemed, football forever. However, in 2005, he was appointed coach of the Port Adelaide Magpies for one season to revitalise the struggling club. He took them to their first finals series in three seasons and they finished a respectable third. At the end of the season he announced that he was retiring from coaching.

However, in 2008, he signed a two-year coaching deal with the South Adelaide Football Club in an attempt to pull them out of their current slump. He resigned eight matches into the season, apparently citing "outside influences".^[1]

Personal life

His son is Darren Cahill (born 1965), a former professional tennis player from Australia and tennis coach. His brother is Darrell Cahill who also played for Port Adelaide, playing 265 games. His daughter married Scott Hodges who played for Port Adelaide, Adelaide and Port Adelaide in the AFL. They have since divorced. His uncle, Laurie Cahill was also a coach in the SANFL, coaching West Adelaide from 1953 until 1956, taking the club to two Grand Finals in 1954 and 1956.

In 2010, he purchased an EFM Health Clubs Franchise^[2] located on-site at Pulteney Grammar School in the Adelaide CBD.

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References

Sporting positions
Preceded by Mick Erwin	Collingwood Football Club coach 1983–1984	Succeeded by Bob Rose
First Establishment of AFL club	Port Adelaide Football Club coach 1997–1998	Mark Williams

v t e Coaches of the Collingwood Football Club

1904: Strickland 1905–1906: Condon 1907–1908: Rowell 1908: Strickland 1909–1911: Angus 1912–1949: McHale 1930: Rush 1950–1963: Kyne 1960: Mann 1964–1971: Rose 1967; 1972–1974: Mann 1974: Richards 1975–1976: Weideman 1977–1982: Hafey 1982: Erwin 1983–1984: Cahill 1985–1986: Rose 1986–1995: Matthews 1996–1999: Shaw 2000–2011: Malthouse 2012–: Buckley

Italics denote caretaker coach

v t e Coaches of the Port Adelaide Football Club

1997–1998: Cahill 1999–2010: Williams 2010–2012: Primus 2012: Hocking 2013–: Hinkley 2013: Richardson

Italics denote caretaker coach

Persondata
Name	Cahill, John
Alternative names	Jack Cahill
Short description	Australian rules footballer and coach
Date of birth	27 April 1940
Place of birth	Adelaide
Date of death
Place of death

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