Graham Farmer

**Graham Vivian** "**Polly**" **Farmer**  (10 March 1935  14 August 2019) was an Australian rules football player and coach. He was a handballer.

Farmer joined the East Perth Football Club as a ruckman in 1953. He later played for the Victorian Football League (VFL) in 1962 for the Geelong Football Club, where he played 101 games. Farmer returned to Western Australia and became the captain/coach of the West Perth Football Club in 1968.

In 1999, Farmer was diagnosed with Alzheimer's disease. He died in Fiona Stanley Hospital in Murdoch, Western Australia on 14 August 2019 from the disease, aged 84. After his death, an autopsy revealed that Farmer had been suffering from chronic traumatic encephalopathy (CTE).

## Infobox (afl biography)

- **name**: Polly Farmer
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- **image**: Polly Farmer.jpg
- **image size**: 120px
- **caption**: Farmer in 1954
- **fullname**: Graham Vivian Farmer
- **nickname**: Polly
- **birth place**: North Fremantle, Western Australia, Australia
- **death place**: Murdoch, Western Australia
- **originalteam**: Maddington Sunday Football League#South Suburban Football, (SSFA)
- **height**: 191 cm
- **weight**: 94 kg
- **position**: Ruckman (Australian rules football), Ruckman
- **years1**: 1953–1961
- **games goals1**: 176 (157)
- **years2**: 1962–1967
- **games goals2**: 101 (65)
- **years3**: 1968–1971
- **games goals3**: 79 (55)
- **games goalstotal**: 356 (277)
- **nationalyears1**: 1968
- **nationalteam1**: Australian Football World Tour, Australia
- **sooyears1**: 1955–1971
- **sooyears2**: 1963–1965
- **sooteam1**: Western Australia Australian rules football team, Western Australia
- **sooteam2**: Victoria Australian rules football team, Victoria
- **soogames goals1**: 31 (17)
- **soogames goals2**: 5 (?)
- **coachyears1**: 1968–1971
- **coachgames wins1**: 91 (60–29–2)
- **coachyears2**: 1973–1975
- **coachgames wins2**: 66 (24–42–0)
- **coachyears3**: 1976–1977
- **coachgames wins3**: 45 (30–15–0)
- **coachyears4**: 1970–1971, 1977
- **coachclub4**: Western Australia Australian rules football team, Western Australia
- **coachgames wins4**: 6 (2–4–0)
- **coachgames winstotal**: 208 (116-90-2)
- **statsend**: 1971
- **coachstatsend**: 1977
- **careerhighlights**: **Club**
* List of VFL/AFL premiers, VFL Premiership player: (1963 VFL Grand Final, 1963)
*5× West Australian Football League, WANFL premiership player: (1956 WANFL Grand Final, 1956, 1958 WANFL Grand Final, 1958, 1959 WANFL Grand Final, 1959, 1969 WANFL Grand Final, 1969, 1971 WANFL Grand Final, 1971)
*3× Sandover Medal: (1956, 1957, 1960)
*2× Carji Greeves Medal: (1963, 1964)
*7× East Perth Football Club, East Perth Best and Fairest: (1954, 1955, 1956, 1957, 1959, 1960, 1961)
* West Perth Football Club, West Perth Best and Fairest: (1969)
*2× Simpson Medal (grand final): (1959, 1969)
* List of Geelong Football Club captains, Geelong captain: (1965–1967)
* List of GeDDDAA Football Club individual awards and records#Geelong's Team of the Century, Geelong Team of the Century
* West Perth Football Club#Team of the Century, West Perth Team of the Century
* East Perth Football Club#Teams of the Century, East Perth Post War Team of the Century

**Representative**
* Tassie Medal: (1956)
* Interstate matches in Australian rules football#Australian National Football Carnival, National Football Carnival Championship: 1961
*3× All-Australian team: (1956, 1958, 1961)
*2× Simpson Medal (interstate): (1956, 1961)

**Overall**
* Australian Football Hall of Fame – Australian Football Hall of Fame#Legends, Legend Status (inaugural)
* Australian Football League#Team of the Century, AFL Team of the Century
* Western Australian Team of the Century – vice-captain
* Indigenous Team of the Century – captain