By David Nagel
There were legends as far as the eye could see at Garfield Football Club on Saturday as its much-loved home at Beswick Street provided the perfect backdrop for the induction of 10 Hall of Fame members.
Legendary full-forward Jim ‘Frosty’ Miller was the first inducted into the Hall of Fame, with his career at Garfield dating back more than 60 years.
The honour roll of champions was enormous with 2500 games played between them; 33 best and fairests won; eight league best and fairests, 28 leading goalkicking awards and, most importantly, 22 premierships won.
The senior and reserves teams at Garfield wore specially minted jumpers on Saturday, carrying the names of the 1964, 1994 and 2004 premiership teams.
GARFIELD HALL OF FAME INDUCTEES
1. Jim ‘Frosty’ Miller
-Over 400 games (Garfield 120, Carlton 11, Dandenong 183, Berwick 100)
-Over 1600 goals (Garfield 400+, Dandenong 883, Berwick 300+)
-Leading Goal Kicker for Garfield x3, Dandenong x9, VFA x6, Berwick x2
-VFL Goalkicking Award is named after Jim ‘Frosty’ Miller
-6x Senior Premierships (Garfield x2, Dandenong x2, Berwick x2)
-3x League Best and Fairest Medals (1959 and 1960 in Reserves and 1963 in Seniors)
2. Jim ‘Fawkey’ Fawkner
-300 Senior games
-80 Reserves games
-Interleague Representative
-Record x5 Best and Fairest (1945, 1947, 1948, 1950, 1951)
-Co-Coach in 1952
-1961 Reserves Premiership
-Currently has GFC’s Seniors ‘Most Consistent’ award named after him
-Life Member of GFC
3. Pat ‘Moosha’ Looby
-300+ games
-Senior Coach (1961, 1962, 1963, 1964) Placed 4th, 2nd, 1st, 1st on the ladder
-Record x5 Best and Fairest (1953, 1954, 1955, 1958, 1959)
-Interleague Representative
-Life Member
-Pat ‘Moosha’ Looby Best Team Player Award
4. Eric ‘Mick’ Preston
-200+ games
-3x Best and Fairest (1964, 1967, 1971)
-Premiership’s (1963, 1964, 1966)
-Junior Coach in 1988
5. William ‘Bill’ Sykes
-Just short of 100 games
-Best and Fairest in 1966
-Premiership in 1966
-Runner up for League Best and Fairest in 1966
-50 games for Fitzroy
6. Stephen Bassed
-100+ games
-150+ goals
-2x Best and Fairest (1972, 1974) 18 years old in 1972.
-Senior coach (1975) 21 years old.
-WGFL Medal (1975)
-Club Goalkicking Medal (1972, 1973, 1974, 1978, 1979)
-5x Interleague Representative
-Dandenong VFA (1976)
-Hawthorn Reserves (1977)
7. Joey Lenders
-300+ games at Garfield (399 in total)
-2x Best & Fairest (1977, 1978)
-League Best and Fairest (1977, 1978)
-Senior coach (1982, 1983, 1985, 1991)
-Premiership coach in 1983
-Interleague coach (2 years)
-Interleague Representative
-Chairman of Selectors and Match Committee
-Reserves coach
-Juniors coach
-Life member
8. Murray ‘Muzza’ Payne
-200+ games
-200+ goals
-3x Best & Fairest (1989, 1992, 1993)
-Multiple Runner Up trophies, other awards including the coveted Sam Collis Memorial Trophy
-2x Leading Goal Kicker (1984, 1989)
-3x Premierships (1983, 1993, 1994)
-Kicked 7 goals in 1983 grand final
-Senior Premiership Coach (1993)
-Assistant coach to Frosty Miller in 1986
-10x Interleague Representative
-Captain on multiple occasions
9. Neville ‘Turtle’ Bow
-300+ games
-200+ goals
-Leading Goal Kicker (1993 Premiership year)
-Record x5 Best and Fairest (1987, 1988, 1990, 1991, 1994)
-Multiple other awards, include Sam Collis Memorial Award
-Captain (1990)
-3x Premierships (1983, 1993, 1994)
-Reserves coach (2 years)
-Interleague Representative
-Life Member
-GFC President (2 years)/General Committee
10. Lincoln Withers
GARFIELD
-200+ games
-3x Best and Fairest (1997, 2001, 2003)
-League Best and Fairest (1996)
-3x Premierships (1993, 1994, 2004)
-Premiership Captain in 2004
-Best on Ground in 2x Grand Finals (1996, 2004)
PAKENHAM, KYABRAM AND WARRATAH (NT)
-4x Best and Fairest
-2x League Medals
-4x Premierships
-1x Senior Coach
