Malcolm Blight

Malcolm Blight is a former Australian rules footballer who played for and coached the North Melbourne Football Club in the Victorian Football League and played for the Woodville Football Club in the South Australian National Football League. Born on 16 February 1950, he won Woodville's best and fairest award and the SANFL's highest individual honour, the Magarey Medal, before moving to the VFL. He was a member of North Melbourne's premiership sides in 1975 and 1977 and in 1978 won both the Brownlow Medal and the Syd Barker Medal. He is the only player to have kicked 100 goals in a season in both the VFL and the SANFL and one of three players to have won both the Brownlow and Magarey Medals. He also coached Geelong, Adelaide and St Kilda, and was an inaugural inductee to the Australian Football Hall of Fame in 1996, elevated to Legend status in 2017.