Goalkicking great Jason Dunstall has been crowned a Hawthorn Legend at the Club’s silver anniversary celebrations of the 1988/89 premierships tonight.
Only the seventh player to be awarded Legend status, Dunstall joins John Kennedy Senior and Leigh Matthews (2003), Graham Arthur (2005), Michael Tuck (2008), Peter Hudson (2010) and David Parkin (2013) in receiving the Club’s highest accolade.
In a career spanning 14 years, Dunstall played 269 games between 1985-98 and is the third highest goal kicker in VFL/AFL history with 1254 career goals.
Dunstall finished his career a four-time premiership player, four-time Coleman Medallist, four-time Peter Crimmins Medallist and 12-time leading goal-kicker for the Hawks.
Captain of the Club from 1995-1998, the full-forward was named in Hawthorn’s Team of the Century in 2001 and was inducted into the Club’s Hall of Fame in 2005.
After his retirement in 1998, Dunstall held the position of interim CEO in 2004 before moving onto the Hawthorn Board, where he remained until the end of 2013 when his term expired.
Jason Dunstall
Born: 14 August 1964
Recruited from: Coorparoo, Queensland
Played: 1985-1998
Guernsey no: 19
Games: 269
Goals: 1254
Captain: 1995-1998
Premierships: 1986, 1988, 1989, 1991
Night premierships: 1985, 1986, 1988, 1991, 1992
Peter Crimmins Medal: 1988, 1989, 1992, 1993
Runner up: 1994
Coleman Medal: 1988, 1989, 1992, 1993
All Australian: 1988, 1989, 1992, 1994
State representative: 8
Hawthorn FC Leading goal kicker: 1986-1996,1998
Hawthorn FC Life Member: 1991
Hawthorn FC Team of the Century: 2001
Hawthorn FC Board: 2004-2013
Hawthorn FC Hall of Fame: 2005
AFL Hall of Fame: 2002
