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John Towner (born 19 November 1933) is a former Australian rules footballer who played 87 senior games for the Essendon Football Club from 1953 to 1959. == Career == Recruited from the Ascot Vale Football Club, Towner made his debut for Essendon Firsts as a reserve in the second home-and-away round match against South Melbourne at the Lake Oval on 2 May 1953. In his first year he played 11 senior matches, including the Firsts Semi-Final team that lost 5.11 (41) to Footscray's 6.13 (49).〔1953 VFL season#First Semi-Final〕 He played 16 senior games in 1954, a single game in 1955, 10 games in 1956 (plus 1 night game), 16 games in 1957 (plus 1 night game〔Maplestone (1996), p.538. Also, it is important to note that Towner (and Essendon) played a night football match despite playing in the 1957 Grand Final; 1957 was the only year of the night football competition that all 12 teams were competing — in all other years (1956 and 1958-1971), the competition was only for the teams that finished 5th to 12th on the ladder at the end of the season (Maplestone (1996), p.182).1957 VFL season#Night Series Competition〕) — he played on the half-back flank in the losing Essendon Grand Final team of 1957 — 16 games in 1958 (plus 2 night games), and 17 games in 1959. His game at full-back for the Essendon 1959 Premiership team, which beat Melbourne 17.13 (115) to 11.12 (78), was his last game for Essendon. Well-liked at Essendon (he was chosen as ''Best Clubman'' in 1957 and 1959), he left Essendon due to an employment transfer to Western Australia. He played at full-back with West Perth for three years (1960–1962). He later moved to Queensland and was captain-coach of Surfers Paradise Football Club in 1965. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「John Towner」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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