Mal Pascoe
| Mal Pascoe | |||
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| Personal information | |||
| Full name | Malcolm L. Pascoe | ||
| Date of birth | 31 March 1933 | ||
| Original team(s) | Essendon under-19s | ||
| Height / weight | 180 cm (5'11"), 85 kg | ||
| Position(s) | Ruck-rover | ||
| Playing career1 | |||
| Years | Club | Games (Goals) | |
| 1953–1958 | Essendon | 94 (41) | |
| 1959–1966 | Hobart | 177 | |
| Coaching career | |||
| Years | Club | Games (W–L–D) | |
| 1959–1965 | Hobart | ||
| 1978–1979 | Hobart | ||
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1 Playing statistics correct to the end of 1966.
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| Sources: AFL Tables, AustralianFootball.com | |||
Malcolm L. "Mal" Pascoe (born 31 March 1933) is a former Australian rules footballer and coach.
He played 94 senior Victorian Football League (VFL) games for the Essendon Football Club from 1953 to 1958, and played 177 senior Tasmanian Australian National Football League (TANFL) games for the Hobart Football Club from 1959 to 1966.
He was captain-coach of Hobart from 1959 to 1965, and non-playing coach of Hobart from 1978 to 1979.
Recruited at 15 from his junior team, the Essendon Bombers, Pascoe steadily made his way through the Essendon thirds (under-19s) and seconds (reserves) from 1949 until he played his first match for the Essendon senior team in 1953.
He starred in the highly talented 1952 Essendon seconds premiership team that beat Collingwood seconds 7.14 (56) to 4.5 (29). All but one of the premiership team's 20 players had either already played for the Essendon firsts or would go on to do so in the future; the team was:
Excluding the senior games that some had already played (or would go on to play) with other VFL clubs, the members of the Essendon 1952 seconds premiership team played an aggregate total of 1072 senior games for Essendon firsts.
He played mainly as a ruck-rover resting on the backline, sharing the duties with Hugh Mitchell. He was a strong overhead mark, a fearless defender, and widely acknowledged as one of the best drop kicks in the VFL.
He made his senior debut in Round 9 of the 1953 season (20 June 1953), playing against Hawthorn, at Hawthorns's home ground, Glenferrie Oval. Essendon won 12.15 (87) to Hawthorn’s 9.10 (64).
His senior record with Essendon is impressive:
Pascoe left Essendon at the end of 1958, and was appointed coach of Hobart Football Club in the Tasmanian Australian National Football League (TANFL) in 1959.
The extent of Essendon's loss is reflected in the fact that, in his first year in Tasmania:
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