How many goals did Peter Hudson kick in his career?

Peter John Hudson AM is a former Australian rules footballer who played for the Hawthorn Football Club in the Victorian Football League and for the New Norfolk Football Club and Glenorchy Football Club in the Tasmanian Australian National Football League.

Hudson also experienced success as a coach during and after his playing days, leading Glenorchy to a TANFL premiership as a playing coach and later coaching Hobart to successive finals appearances.

He also became a respected club administrator, serving as CEO at St Kilda and Hawthorn during the 1990s.

How many goals did Peter Hudson kick in his career?

Over his career, he kicked 1,721 goals in 288 premiership games between 1963 and 1979, and 1981.

His final match was in the 1981 TANFL Preliminary Final for Glenorchy, where Hudson, who had made a brief comeback with two rounds remaining due to Glenorchy having a string of injuries, kicked 30 goals in three matches, including six in his team’s Preliminary Final loss to New Norfolk.

Hudson was kept goalless just four times during his career in premiership matches by Richmond’s Barry Richardson in Round 7 of 1969, Collingwood’s Ian Cooper in Round 2 of 1974, Carlton’s Rod Austin in Round 14 of 1977, and in the TANFL, Bruce Greenhill of Sandy Bay in 1978.