Brian Dawson (coach)

Last updated

Dr Brian Dawson
Personal information
Date of birth (1958-08-31) 31 August 1958 (age 65)
Playing career
YearsClubGames (Goals)
Swan Districts 6 (?)
Perth 7 (?)
Coaching career
YearsClubGames (W–L–D)
2008–2010 Swan Districts 42–23–3
2013– East Perth 14–9–0
Career highlights

Brian Dawson (born 31 August 1958 [1] ) is an Australian rules football coach and academic. He is coach of East Perth in the West Australian Football League (WAFL) and is a Winthrop Professor at the University of Western Australia (UWA).

Contents

Playing career

Dawson joined Swan Districts in 1975, initially playing in the colts team. In 1977 he played the first of six league matches for Swan Districts, later playing seven league matches for Perth. He also played a total of eight seasons and 134 matches with Osborne Park in the Sunday Football League. [2] [3] [4]

Coaching career

Between 1988 and 2000 Dawson was fitness coach for the West Coast Eagles. He was made a life member by the club in 2007. [5] [6]

Dawson was head coach of Swan Districts between 2008 and 2010, winning the West Australian Football League (WAFL) premiership in 2010. He resigned as Swans coach after the end of the 2010 WAFL season when work commitments in Japan prevented him from committing to full-time coaching in 2011. [7] [8]

In October 2012 he replaced Tony Micale as coach of East Perth. [9]

At the conclusion of the 2014 WAFL season, Dawson received the JJ Leonard Medal as the Coach of the Year, after guiding the Royals to a second straight grand final, and his fourth in five seasons as a league coach. [10]

Academic life

In 1981 Dawson completed a master's degree in physical education studying the effects of heat stress on athletes. He completed a Doctor of Philosophy degree (PhD) on athletes' heat tolerance. [11] [12] [13]

Dawson is director of community and public programs at the University of Western Australia (UWA) and holds the title of Winthrop Professor. [14] [15]

In 2004 Dawson wrote a biography of John Todd, titled John Todd: Six decades of Footy. [16] He has written numerous articles and books on training and recovery techniques for sportspeople. [17] [18]

Dawson is the chair of the science and football steering group of the World Commission of Science and Sports. [19]

Related Research Articles

<span class="mw-page-title-main">West Australian Football League</span> Australian football league

The West Australian Football League is an Australian rules football league based in Perth, Western Australia. The league currently consists of ten teams, which play each other in a 20-round season usually lasting from April to September, with the top five teams playing off in a finals series, culminating in a Grand Final. The league also runs reserves, colts (under-19) and women's competitions.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">East Perth Football Club</span> Australian rules football club in the WAFL

The East Perth Football Club, nicknamed the Royals, is an Australian rules football club based in Leederville, Western Australia, current playing in the West Australian Football League (WAFL). Formed in 1902 as the Union Football Club, the club entered the WAFL in 1906, changing its name to East Perth. It won its first premiership in 1919, part of a streak of five consecutive premierships. Overall, the club has won 17 premierships, most recently in 2002. The club is currently based at Leederville Oval, which it shares with the Subiaco Football Club, having previously played home games at Wellington Square and Perth Oval from 1910 to 1999.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Swan Districts Football Club</span> Australian rules football club in Perth

The Swan Districts Football Club, nicknamed the Swans, is an Australian rules football club playing in the West Australian Football League (WAFL) and WAFL Women's (WAFLW). The club is based at Bassendean Oval, in Bassendean, an eastern suburb of Perth, Western Australia. The club was formed in 1933, and joined the then-Western Australian National Football League (WANFL) in 1934, acting as a successor to the Midland Junction Football Club, which had disbanded during World War I, in the Perth Hills region.

John Herbert Todd is a former Australian rules footballer who played for the South Fremantle Football Club in the West Australian National Football League (WANFL).

Charles Thomas Stannage, AM was a prominent Western Australian historian, academic, and Australian rules football player. He edited the major work A New History of Western Australia, which was published in 1981.

Ryan Edwin Turnbull is a former Australian rules footballer who represented the West Coast Eagles in the Australian Football League (AFL). Turnbull was a member of the Eagles' 1994 premiership side, and was the club's first-choice ruckman for much of the 1990s. He also played with the Claremont and East Perth Football Clubs in the West Australian Football League (WAFL), and was awarded the Sandover Medal in 2001 as the best player in the competition, as well as winning the Simpson Medal in 2001 and 2002 as the best player in the league's grand final. In State of Origin football, Turnbull represented Western Australia in five matches between 1992 and 1999, and captained a Western Australian representative team in 2003.

Donald Leslie Langsford is a former Australian rules footballer who was highly successful in the West Australian Football League (WAFL) playing for the Swan Districts Football Club.

Tony Notte is an Australian rules footballer currently listed with the Swan Districts Football Club in the West Australian Football League (WAFL). He previously played two matches for the West Coast Eagles in the Australian Football League (AFL).

Shane Beros is a former Australian rules footballer who played for Swan Districts in the West Australian Football League (WAFL) from 1998 to 2008. He was the winner of the 2003 Sandover Medal.

Anthony Claude "Tony" Micale is an Australian rules football coach and former player. He is the current coach of the East Perth Football Club. Micale played for the South Fremantle and East Fremantle Football Clubs in the West Australian Football League (WAFL), and later took up coaching. He also occasionally works as a special comments radio commentator for football matches broadcast on 6PR.

Domenico "Mick" Grasso is a former Australian rules footballer who played for Swan Districts in the West Australian Football League (WAFL). Originally from Bunbury, Western Australia, Grasso began his career with the South Bunbury Football Club in the South West Football League (SWFL). Recruited by Swan Districts prior to the start of the 1987 season, he made his debut for the club in round one. Grasso won a club best and fairest award in 1988 & 1990 as well as the 1990 Sandover Medal as the best player in the competition. Injuries forced his retirement from the WAFL in 1992, although he remained involved in country football afterwards, in both playing and coaching roles.

The 1987 WAFL season was the 103rd season of the West Australian Football League in its various iterations. This season saw a Western Australia-based team, West Coast, that was one of two interstate teams to make their debut in the Victorian Football League (VFL), which had profound effects on the WAFL competition. The Eagles took away thirty-five of the competition's best players, severely reducing attendances and club revenue, the latter of which was further affected by the payment of the Eagles’ licence fee to the VFL. The WAFL budgeted for a 30 percent decline in attendances, but the observed decline was over fifty percent, and they were also hit by Channel Seven telecasting the Round 17 Hawthorn versus Footscray match, breaching agreements to not telecast non-Eagles VFL matches to Perth.

The 1995 WAFL season was the 111th season of the West Australian Football League in its various incarnations. Already depleted in strength by the rise of the West Coast Eagles, the WAFL suffered a further blow to its popularity and standard when the AFL, to counter the Eagles’ dominance of the early 1990s with a champion defence and vast player depth, introduced the Fremantle Dockers as a second Western Australian club.

The 1975 WANFL season was the 91st season of senior Australian rules football in Perth and the forty-fifth as the “Western Australian National Football League”. The season saw West Perth, after unexpectedly falling to last in 1974, rise under former Fitzroy coach Graham Campbell to a remarkable premiership win over South Fremantle by a record 104 points in front of what was then the biggest WANFL crowd on record and has since been only exceeded by the 1979 Grand Final. The Bulldogs, apart from Claremont the least successful WANFL club between 1957 and 1974, rose with arrival of Aboriginal stars Stephen Michael and Maurice Rioli to their first finals appearance in five years and began their greatest era since their golden days of the middle 1950s. With East Perth, revitalised after injuries affected their 1974 campaign, and the inconsistent but at times incomparable Swan Districts, they comprised a top four that remained unchanged for the final fourteen rounds.

The 1990 WASFL season was the 106th season of senior Australian rules football in Perth, Western Australia. It saw the league, already realising that the damage from the admission to the VFL of West Coast would be permanent rather than temporary as was hoped in 1986, rebrand itself as the Western Australia State Football League, but the move was unsuccessful and reversed after a single season. The refusal of WASFL clubs to permit an Eagles reserves team in the WASFL and the WAFC's refusal to accept one in the AFL's reserve grade competition led to further problems when Claremont said they would not play West Coast discards in the league team and produced a short-lived draft for such players, whilst at the same time Claremont rejected a proposed draft for the numerous young footballers who came from Perth's private schools but when not boarding lived in rural areas.

The 2002 WAFL season was the 118th season of the West Australian Football League. It saw East Perth, despite the end of the first host club scheme that was thought to have unfairly favoured the Royals, win their third successive premiership for the first hat-trick in the WA(N)FL since Swan Districts between 1982 and 1984. The Swans themselves had a disastrous season as chronic financial troubles, which had plagued the club for almost a decade were combined with disastrous results on the field. The black and whites were within two points of a winless season in the seniors and did little better in the lower grades.

The 1991 WAFL season was the 107th season of the various incarnations of the West Australian Football League. With the West Coast Eagles still pushing attendances down and club finances into the red, the league made further experiments. Following on from the VFL and SANFL it introduced a ‘final five’ to replace the final four in use since 1905, but this did not produce the hoped-for financial benefits and was abandoned after four seasons. A more enduring result of this chance was a ‘double-header’ system of playing finals, whereby the two senior semi-finals were played at Subiaco Oval on the same day, with the first game starting just before noon and the second at the traditional time for playing finals. As a consequence of the double-headers, reserves finals were played at Fremantle Oval and colts at Bassendean.

The 1970 WANFL season was the 86th season of the Western Australian National Football League. After four years of dominance by the three Perth clubs, 1970 saw 1969 wooden spooners South Fremantle, aided by a tough pre-season training program under coach “Hassa” Mann and the arrival of Len Clark and John O‘Reilly from the VFL, rise to take their first premiership since the 1947–1954 dynasty. The Bulldogs upset Perth in two finals in wet conditions, while 1969 premiers West Perth fell to sixth with only ten victories: indeed this was the first season since 1955 with East Perth that legendary ruckman “Polly” Farmer had played for a team that missed the finals. The Cardinals were affected by the loss of John Wynne to Norwood, backup ruckmen Brian Sampson and Neil Evans to retirement and Greg Astbury to a major stomach problem, plus a dispute over Bill Valli, whose clearance to Collingwood was refused by the WANFL and the club's severe lack of depth in its reserves. Of the lower sides from previous seasons, in addition to South Fremantle's surprise flag Claremont showed major improvement due to such young players as Moss, winning more games than in any season since 1965, and would have done much better but for long-term injuries to rover Bruce Duperouzel and centre half-forward Lindsay Carroll in the second half of the season, when they fell out of the four after looking like a second semi-final berth.

The 1969 WANFL season was the 85th season of the Western Australian National Football League. It saw continued dominance by the three Perth clubs and Subiaco, who occupied the top half of the ladder constantly from the fourth round onwards, and finished four games clear of the other four clubs, who were all in a “rebuilding” mode with varying success – late in the season both Swan Districts and Claremont fielded some of the youngest teams in the competition's history, whilst the Tigers, who fielded thirteen first-year players including Graham Moss, Russell Reynolds and Bruce Duperouzel, began disastrously but four wins in five games paved the way to impressive record from 1970 to 1972. Among the top four, Perth failed to achieve a fourth consecutive premiership[a] that at one point looked very much in their grasp due to the overwork of Barry Cable which robbed him of some brilliance, early-season injuries to key players Iseger and Page and a couple of surprising losses to lower clubs, whilst East Perth, who won consistently without being impressive for most of the season, failed for the fourth time in as many seasons in the Grand Final, this time to West Perth and in a much more decisive manner than any of their Perth defeats.

The 2014 WAFL season was the 130th season of the various incarnations of the West Australian Football League (WAFL). The season began on 22 March 2014 and concluded on 21 September 2014 with the 2014 WAFL Grand Final. West Perth entered the season as reigning premiers after defeating East Perth by 49 points in the 2013 WAFL Grand Final at Patersons Stadium.

References

  1. ↑ "Club Contacts" (PDF). Bouncedown. Media Tonic: 9. 2008. ISSN   1832-1402. Archived from the original (PDF) on 21 March 2012.
  2. ↑ "Dawson to stand down at Swan Districts". West Australian Football Commission. 25 August 2010. Archived from the original on 4 December 2010.
  3. ↑ "Most Games Played". Stirling Amateur Football & Sporting Club. Archived from the original on 10 April 2013. Retrieved 5 October 2012.
  4. ↑ "May Dinner Guest Speaker". On the Ball!. Swansmen Association Inc.: 1 May 2010.
  5. ↑ Sapienza, Joseph (4 August 2011). "Eagles Fab Five in the mix for West Coast's Hall of Fame". PerthNow. Retrieved 4 October 2012.
  6. ↑ "Club Life Members". West Coast Eagles. Retrieved 4 October 2012.
  7. ↑ Beacham, Digby (24 August 2010). "Dawson quits as Swans coach". The West Australian. Retrieved 4 October 2012.
  8. ↑ Leicester, Brendan (26 August 2010). "Dawson decision to spur Swans". FootyGoss. Retrieved 11 October 2012.
  9. ↑ "Brian Dawson replaces Tony Micale at East Perth". PerthNow. 4 October 2012. Retrieved 4 October 2012.
  10. ↑ West Perth's Aaron Black wins 2014 Sandover Medal (other awards)
  11. ↑ "Catalogue - MPE". UWA Library / Theses. University of Western Australia. Archived from the original on 27 November 2012. Retrieved 4 October 2012.
  12. ↑ "Catalogue - PhD". UWA Library / Theses. University of Western Australia. Archived from the original on 2 December 2012. Retrieved 4 October 2012.
  13. ↑ "Daws hangs up his boots!" (PDF). Homebase. One. University of Western Australia: 9. 2010. Retrieved 5 October 2012.
  14. ↑ "UWA Staff Profiles - W/Prof Brian Dawson". University of Western Australia. Retrieved 4 October 2012.
  15. ↑ "Prof Brian Dawson - UWA Research Profiles". University of Western Australia. Retrieved 4 October 2012.
  16. ↑ "John Todd : six decades of footy / Brian Dawson ; [edited by Alan East]". NLA Catalogue. National Library of Australia. Retrieved 5 October 2012.
  17. ↑ "Contributors - Dawson, Brian (1958-)". Trove. National Library of Australia. Retrieved 5 October 2012.
  18. ↑ "Dawson on his Todd" (PDF). UWA News. 23 (2). University of Western Australia: 9. 22 March 2004. Archived from the original (PDF) on 14 September 2012. Retrieved 5 October 2012.
  19. ↑ "Science and Football". The World Commission of Science and Sports. Archived from the original on 13 January 2011. Retrieved 10 October 2012.
This page is based on this Wikipedia article
Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license; additional terms may apply.
Images, videos and audio are available under their respective licenses.