George Doig

His father, Charles Doig, Sr., played 209 games for East Fremantle between 1903 and 1921, and later coached the club for one season, in 1940.

His brother, Charles Doig, Jr., played 196 games for East Fremantle and also captained the club.

Doig attended Fremantle Boys' School in Fremantle, but played "little football" at school.

George Ronald Doig (25 May 1913 – 27 November 2006) was an Australian rules footballer who played for and later coached the East Fremantle Football Club in the Western Australian National Football League (WANFL).

A member of the Doig sporting family, Doig kicked 1095 goals from his 202 games playing almost exclusively as a forward, becoming East Fremantle's leading goalkicker of all-time, and leading the WANFL's goalkicking on six occasions.

Doig was born on 25 May 1913 to Charles George Alexander Doig and his wife, Isabella Brand Doig (née Miller), at their residence at 30 Howard Street, Fremantle.

Doig was a member of the Doig sporting family which produced 17 WAFL footballers.

In 1931, Doig played for an East Fremantle side in the Fremantle Suburban Football Association, a local competition.

Despite his team finishing second from last, Doig kicked 126 goals from 20 games to lead the competition's goalkicking.

In 1933, Doig was promoted to the League team at East Fremantle.

In his first game, he kicked 9 goals.

For the season he kicked 106 goals, the first person in the West Australian Football League to kick more than 100 goals in a season at League level.

He kicked more than 100 goals in a season nine times, which included a haul of 152 goals in 1934 that set an elite record which was not broken until Bernie Naylor kicked 167 goals in 1953.

In the 1934 season Doig kicked 19 goals 3 behinds in one match (then an Australian record) followed by 13 goals 4 behinds in the next match.

In 1935, George kicked 113 goals, followed by

Doig married Margaret Jean Mossman on Saturday, 21 August 1937, at the Old Scots Church in Fremantle.

He and his brother, Charlie Doig, who acted as best man, had both played for East Fremantle against at Fremantle Oval on the same day as the wedding, with George kicking four goals in a 27-point loss.

Only once in his 202 matches, against Swan Districts in the third round of 1938, did he fail to score a goal.

In 1938, the East Fremantle Football Club played a match in Sydney against the New South Wales State team.

A newspaper report on the match referred to George Doig as "the Don Bradman of WANFL football" as he had by then achieved more than 100 goals in six consecutive seasons.

Doig kicked an aggregate of 1072 goals in his nine consecutive seasons from 1933 to 1941 with East Fremantle.

This represents 119 goals per season, and 5.53 goals per game.

Doig captained the club for two seasons, from 1940 to 1941, also filling the role of coach during the first season.

Doig also represented the Western Australian state side in 14 matches, kicking 62 goals.

Due to the Second World War, 1941 practically marked his retirement from football.

In 1945, at the request of the committee, Doig returned to play eight games; he kicked 23 goals, and helped East Fremantle win the Premiership.

During his career he played in eight Grand Finals, and kicked ten or more goals on 14 occasions.

With his 1945 return, after an absence from the game for three years due to the Second World War, he played 202 games and kicked 1095 goals, the seventh-highest total in elite Australian rules football.

Doig also represented Western Australia on fourteen occasions and kicked 62 goals in interstate matches.

If these are included, he played 216 senior career matches and kicked 1157 senior career goals, the seventh-highest total in elite Australian rules football.

Fremantle's best and fairest award, the Doig Medal, is named for the Doig family, 17 of which have played football at senior level in Western Australia over three generations.

A function room at Subiaco Oval has been named the Doig Room in recognition of the family's influence on West Australian football.

He is a member of the West Australian Football Hall of Fame and has legend status.

The following year, he kicked 152 goals, which was an Australian record until 1953, when Bernie Naylor, from the South Fremantle Football Club kicked 167 goals (including finals matches).

In a 1954 interview, Doig characterised himself as part of the "barefoot brigade".

In one match against Palmyra at Fremantle Park, Doig kicked his team's entire score, 26 goals and 20 behinds, to Palmyra's seven goals and seven behinds.

The Sunday Times noted it as "a splendid performance".

The following season, Doig played with East Fremantle's affiliate in the Western Australian National Football Association (WANFA), which acted as a reserve or seconds team for the WANFL club.

He was inducted into the Australian Football Hall of Fame in 2002, and was named as a "Legend" in the West Australian Football Hall of Fame in 2004.

Doig was named at full forward in East Fremantle's Team of the Century, and the Fremantle Football Hall of Legends.