Barry Cable

Barry Cable
Personal information
Full name	Barry Thomas Cable
Date of birth	(1943-09-22) 22 September 1943 (age 73)
Place of birth	Narrogin, Western Australia
Original team(s)	Narrogin Imperials (UGSFL)
Height	168 cm (5 ft 6 in)
Weight	70 kg (154 lb)
Position(s)	Rover
Playing career¹
Years	Club	Games (Goals)
1962–69, 71–73	Perth	225 (325)
1970, 74–77	North Melbourne	115 (133)
1978–79	East Perth	043 0(50)
Representative team honours
Years	Team	Games (Goals)
1964–78	Western Australia	20 (35)
1975	Victoria	1 (0)
Coaching career³
Years	Club	Games (W–L–D)
1972–73 1978–80 1981–84	Perth East Perth North Melbourne Representative Western Australia	44 (19–25–0) 68 (39–29–0) 76 (40–36–0)
¹ Playing statistics correct to the end of 1979. ² State and international statistics correct as of 1978. ³ Coaching statistics correct as of 1984.
Career highlights
Club 3x Sandover Medal: 1964, 1968, 1973 7x Perth Best and Fairest: 1965-1969, 1971, 1973 North Melbourne Best and Fairest: 1970 2x VFL Premiership: 1975, 1977 4x WAFL Premiership: 1966-1968, 1978 3x Simpson Medal: 1966-1968 Perth Captain: 1972-1973 North Melbourne Team of the Century (Rover) Representative Tassie Medal: 1966 2x All-Australian team: 1966, 1969 2x Simpson Medal: 1969, 1977 Overall Sport Australia Hall of Fame Australian Football Hall of Fame - Legend Status West Australian Football Hall of Fame - Legend Status Indigenous Team of the Century (Rover and Coach) Coaching National Football Carnival Championship: 1979 All-Australian team: 1979 WAFL Premiership: 1978
Sources: AFL Tables, AustralianFootball.com

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Barry Thomas Cable MBE (born 22 September 1943) is a former Australian rules footballer and coach. Considered one of the greatest rovers in the sport's history, he played over 400 games at senior level in the Western Australian Football League (WAFL) and the Victorian Football League (VFL), and later coached in both competitions.

Born in Narrogin, Western Australia, Cable made his debut with the Perth Football Club in the WANFL in 1962, and won the Sandover Medal as the fairest and best player in the competition in 1964. Cable was awarded the Tassie Medal as the best player at the 1966 Australian National Football Carnival, as well as selection in the All-Australian team. The same year, he played in the first of three consecutive premierships with Perth, winning the Simpson Medal as the best player in the grand final in each year, as well as a further Sandover Medal in 1968. Cable left Perth at the end of the 1969 season to play for the North Melbourne Football Club in the VFL, and won the club's best and fairest award, the Syd Barker Medal, before returning to Western Australia at the end of the season. Following another three years at Perth, in which he captain-coached the club in 1972 and 1973 and won his third Sandover Medal in the latter year, Cable returned to North Melbourne for the 1974 season. In another four years at the club, he played in two premiership sides, in 1975 and 1977, before again returning to Perth after accepting an offer to captain-coach East Perth. Cable retired from playing at the end of the 1979 season, having injured himself in a farming accident.

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