Gordon Hocking
{{short description|Australian rules footballer, born 1919}}
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{{Infobox AFL biography
| name = Gordon Hocking
| image = Gordon Hocking early 1940s.jpg
| caption = Hocking (right) in the early 1940s
| fullname = Gordon Charles Hocking
| birth_date = 12 August 1919
| birth_place = South Melbourne, Victoria
| death_date = {{death date and age|1986|3|24|1919|8|12|df=yes}}
| death_place = Balwyn, Victoria
| originalteam = Chelsea
| height = 178 cm
| weight = 81 kg
| position =
| statsend = 1952
| years1 = 1938–1952
| club1 = Collingwood
| games_goals1 = 171 (80)
| careerhighlights =
}}
Gordon Charles Hocking (12 August 1919 – 24 March 1986){{cite web|url=https://forever.collingwoodfc.com.au/players/gordon-hocking/|title=Gordon Hocking|publisher=Collingwood Forever|accessdate=27 August 2014}} was an Australian rules footballer who played for Collingwood in the Victorian Football League (VFL).
Football
Hocking was primarily a knock ruckman but could also play most positions around the ground. He made his debut at Collingwood in the 1938 VFL season and was a losing Grand Finalist in his first two seasons. In 1950 he was appointed club captain and he remained in the role the following year, leading Collingwood to a Preliminary Final which they lost to Essendon by two points. Hocking was a regular interstate representative for Victoria and starred at the 1950 Brisbane Carnival. That year he was named as a half back flanker in the Sporting Life Team of the Year.
Hocking retired during the 1952 VFL season, the last remaining pre-World War II VFL player.Piesse, p. 142.
Military service
He served overseas with the Second AIF.
References
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Sources
- [http://www.carltonfc.com.au/news/2017-03-14/200-club-push-for-mulga-baxter-and-bobDe Bolfo, Tony, "200 Club push for 'Mulga', Baxter and Bob", Carlton Football Club, 14 March 2017.]{{Dead link|date=December 2019 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}
- Holmesby, R. and Main, J. (2007) The Encyclopedia of AFL Footballers, 7th ed, Melbourne: Bas Publishing.
- Piesse, K. (2011) Great Australian Football Stories, The File Mile Press: Scoresby, Victoria. {{ISBN|9781743467572}}.
- [https://nominal-rolls.dva.gov.au/veteran?id=487819&c=WW2 World War Two Nominal Roll: Corporal Gordon Charles Hocking (VX82888), Department of Veterans' Affairs.]
- [https://recordsearch.naa.gov.au/SearchNRetrieve/NAAMedia/ViewPDF.aspx?B=6067709&D=D World War Two Service Record: Corporal Gordon Charles Hocking (VX82888), National Archives of Australia.]
External links
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- {{AFL Tables|ref=G/Gordon_Hocking.html}}
- {{AustralianFootball|ref=gordon%2Bhocking/6255}}
- [https://forever.collingwoodfc.com.au/players/gordon-hocking Gordon Hocking, at Collingwood Forever.]
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{{1950 'Sporting Life' Team of the Year}}
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Category:Australian rules footballers from Melbourne
Category:Collingwood Football Club players
Category:Chelsea Football Club (Australia) players
Category:Australian Army personnel of World War II
Category:Australian Army soldiers
Category:People from South Melbourne
Category:Military personnel from Melbourne
Category:20th-century Australian sportsmen
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