Graham Cornes

Graham Cornes
Personal information
Full name	Graham Studley Cornes OAM
Date of birth	(1948-03-31) 31 March 1948 (age 68)
Place of birth	Melbourne, Victoria
Height / weight	189 cm / 76 kg
Position(s)	Centre half-forward
Playing career1
Years	Club	Games (Goals)
1967–82	Glenelg	317 (347)
1979	North Melbourne	5 (10)
1983–84	South Adelaide	47 (42)
Representative team honours
Years	Team	Games (Goals)
	South Australia	21 (?)
Coaching career
Years	Club	Games (W–L–D)
1983–84	South Adelaide	46 (25–21–0)
1985–90	Glenelg	149 (94–54–1)
1986–1999	South Australia	11 (9–2–0)
1991–94	Adelaide	89 (43–45–1)
1 Playing statistics correct to the end of 1994.
Career highlights
SANFL SANFL premiership: 1973 3x Glenelg best and fairest Glenelg Captain: 1978 South Adelaide playing coach: 1983–84 Glenelg Hall of Fame Representative Tassie Medal: 1980 2x All-Australian team: 1979, 1980 Simpson Medal: 1979 Overall Australian Football Hall of Fame South Australian Football Hall of Fame (inaugural inductee) Coaching 2x National Football Carnival Championship: 1988, 1993 2x SANFL premiership: 1985, 1986 2x All-Australian team: 1987, 1988
Sources: AFL Tables, AustralianFootball.com

SANFL

Representative

Overall

Coaching

Graham Studley Cornes OAM (born 31 March 1948 in Melbourne, Victoria) is a former Australian rules footballer and coach, as well as a media personality. From 1995 until early 2013, Cornes co-hosted a weekday drivetime sports programme that he hosts on Adelaide radio station 5AA, first with Ken "KG" Cunningham and, following Cunningham's retirement in 2008, with Stephen Rowe. In 2012 he was inducted into the Australian Football Hall of Fame.

Cornes is also a Vietnam veteran, having served as an infantry soldier with the 7th Battalion of the Royal Australian Regiment in 1968.

Cornes was a champion with the Glenelg Football Club in the SANFL, between 1967 and 1982. He played mostly at centre half-forward. In his 317 club games for Glenelg he kicked 339 goals and won the club best and fairest award three times. He captained Glenelg in 1978 and was a member of the premiership team in 1973, taking a spectacular mark in the last minutes of the game and calmly kicking the goal to regain the lead.

In 1977 Cornes took a memorable spectacular mark against Norwood which is captured in Jamie Cooper's painting the Game That Made Australia, commissioned by the AFL in 2008 to celebrate the 150th anniversary of the sport.

Cornes signed with the VFL's South Melbourne in Victoria early in his career, but stayed in South Australia. He made his VFL debut at the age of 31 in 1979 and played five games with Ron Barassi's North Melbourne before returning to South Australia after he was dropped from the team.