Gordon Coventry

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Gordon 'Nuts' Coventry was an Australian rules football player who played the full-forward position for the Collingwood Football Club in that club's great teams of the 1920s and 1930s. He held the record for most career goals (1299) for 60 years, until it was broken by Tony Lockett in 2000. He was also the first man to kick 100 goals in a single season, and led the league in goalkicking 6 times, including 5 in a row between 1926 and 1930.

Gordon's brother Syd Coventry was also an excellent Collingwood footballer, playing as a ruckman in the same teams, and also winning the Brownlow Medal in 1927.