Gordon Coulter

{{Short description|Australian rules footballer}}

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| image = Gordon Coulter 1919.jpg

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| fullname = George Gordon Coulter

| birth_date = {{birth date|1898|10|05|df=y}}

| birth_place = Albert Park, Victoria

| death_date = {{death date and age|1971|11|14|1898|10|05|df=y}}

| death_place = Toorak, Victoria

| originalteam = Queens College / Middle Park

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| statsend = 1919

| years1 = 1919

| club1 = {{AFL Mel}}

| games_goals1 = 8 (2)

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Gordon Coulter (5 October 1898 – 14 November 1971) was a former Australian rules footballer who played with Melbourne in the Victorian Football League (VFL).{{cite book |title=The Encyclopedia of AFL Footballers: every AFL/VFL player since 1897 |last=Holmesby|first=Russell|last2=Main|first2=Jim |year=2009 |edition=8th |isbn=978-1-921496-00-4 |publisher=BAS Publishing |location=Seaford, Victoria |page=182}}

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.Sporting Globe, "And Now He's Cr. Coulter", 21 March 1951, p. 11.