Darren Bennett (football player)
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| Full name | Darren Bennett | ||
| Date of birth | 9 January 1965 | ||
| Place of birth | Sydney | ||
| Original team(s) | East Fremantle | ||
| Height | 196 cm (6 ft 5 in) | ||
| Weight | 106 kg (234 lb) | ||
| Position(s) | Forward | ||
| Playing career1 | |||
| Years | Club | Games (Goals) | |
| 1987 | West Coast | 4 (7) | |
| 1989–1993 | Melbourne | 74 (208) | |
| Total | 78 (215) | ||
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1 Playing statistics correct to the end of 1993.
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| Position: | Punter | ||||||||
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| Undrafted: | 1994 | ||||||||
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| Punts: | 836 |
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| Punting Yards: | 36,316 |
| Punting Avg: | 43.4 |
| Player stats at NFL.com | |
Darren Bennett (born 9 January 1965) is a former Australian rules football player and American football punter in the National Football League.
As an Australian rules footballer, he played for East Fremantle in the West Australian Football League (WAFL) between 1982 and 1987 and then in the Australian Football League (AFL) for the West Coast Eagles and the Melbourne Football Club. He was most successful at Melbourne, where he was named as one of the club's 150 Heroes of the last 150 years, kicking 215 goals from just 74 games for the club.
As an American football player, following a three club career in the National Football League he is regarded as one of the greatest players of the 1990s and a member of the NFL 1990s All-Decade Team.
This combination made him notable as arguably the most successful of the Australian sportsmen linked to professional American Football in history.
Bennett grew up in Perth, Western Australia where he began playing Australian rules football, first playing senior football with East Fremantle in the West Australian Football League. His career with the Sharks was severely affected by injuries to his knee, which kept him out for over a season during 1985 and 1986 – in the interim denying him a WAFL premiership. However, training with former star Harry Neesham allowed Bennett to be fit for the 1986 finals, and in the second semi he became the first player ever to score ten goals in a WA(N)FL final.
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