The following is a list of coaches who have coached the Western Bulldogs, previously known as Footscray, at a game of Australian rules football in the Australian Football League (AFL), formerly the VFL.
No. | Coach | P | W | L | D | W% | Years |
1 | Con McCarthy | 17 | 4 | 13 | 0 | 23.53 | 1925 |
2 | Harry Saunders | 10 | 3 | 7 | 0 | 30.00 | 1926 |
3 | Jim Cassidy | 8 | 1 | 7 | 0 | 12.50 | 1926 |
4 | Paddy Scanlan | 36 | 15 | 21 | 0 | 41.67 | 1927–28 |
5 | Alec Eason | 18 | 6 | 11 | 1 | 36.11 | 1929 |
6 | Allan Hopkins | 18 | 4 | 14 | 0 | 22.22 | 1930 |
7 | Bill Cubbins | 54 | 32 | 22 | 0 | 59.26 | 1931–33 |
8 | Alby Morrison | 22 | 6 | 16 | 0 | 27.27 | 1934–35 |
9 | Syd Coventry | 36 | 8 | 26 | 2 | 25.00 | 1935–37 |
10 | Joe Kelly | 69 | 29 | 40 | 0 | 42.03 | 1937–40 |
11 | Norman Ware | 33 | 20 | 13 | 0 | 60.61 | 1941–42 |
12 | Arthur Olliver | 131 | 68 | 62 | 1 | 52.29 | 1943–50 |
13 | Jim Crowe | 19 | 8 | 10 | 1 | 44.74 | 1947 |
14 | Charlie Sutton | 162 | 81 | 79 | 2 | 50.62 | 1951–57, 1967–68 |
15 | George McLaren | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 100.00 | 1951 |
16 | Wally Donald | 3 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 66.67 | 1952, 1953 |
17 | Ted Whitten | 228 | 91 | 137 | 0 | 39.91 | 1957–66 1969–71 |
18 | Joe Ryan | 2 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0.00 | 1959, 1960 |
19 | Bill Findlay | 5 | 2 | 3 | 0 | 40.00 | 1961–62, 1964, 1966 |
20 | Bob Rose | 89 | 42 | 45 | 2 | 48.31 | 1972–75 |
21 | Bill Goggin | 46 | 21 | 23 | 2 | 47.83 | 1976–78 |
22 | Don McKenzie | 44 | 14 | 29 | 1 | 31.81 | 1978–79, 1982 |
23 | Royce Hart | 53 | 8 | 45 | 0 | 15.09 | 1980–82 |
24 | Frank Goode | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0.00 | 1981 |
25 | Ian Hampshire | 33 | 12 | 21 | 0 | 36.36 | 1982–83 |
26 | Mick Malthouse | 135 | 67 | 66 | 2 | 50.37 | 1984–89 |
27 | Terry Wheeler | 91 | 50 | 40 | 1 | 55.49 | 1990–94 |
28 | Alan Joyce | 57 | 25 | 30 | 2 | 45.61 | 1994–96 |
29 | Terry Wallace | 148 | 79 | 67 | 2 | 54.05 | 1996–2002 |
30 | Peter Rohde | 45 | 9 | 35 | 1 | 21.11 | 2002–04 |
31 | Rodney Eade | 162 | 88 | 72 | 2 | 54.94 | 2005–2011 |
32 | Paul Williams | 3 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 66.67 | 2011 |
33 | Brendan McCartney | 66 | 20 | 46 | 0 | 30.30 | 2012–14 |
34 | Luke Beveridge | 139 | 79 | 60 | 0 | 56.83 | 2015 - |
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Terry Wallace is a former professional Australian rules football player and coach.
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The Charles Sutton Medal is an Australian rules football award presented annually to the player adjudged best and fairest for the Western Bulldogs throughout the Victorian Football League/Australian Football League season. The medal is named after 1950 winner Charlie Sutton, who was the Bulldogs' 1954 premiership captain-coach. There were many previous names for the medal, which was originally known as the McCarthy Trophy from 1927 to 1939, named after Con McCarthy, who played a key part in getting the club entry into the Victorian Football League. It was also called the Con Weickhardt trophy from 1940 to 1954. It was named after the man who chaired the club for 4 years. It was renamed to its current name in 1955. The inaugural winner for the award was Ivan McAlpine in 1927.
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