fullname heightweight death_date years clubs birth_place statsend originalteam birth_date article_title name
donald charles bauer 178 ; kg & nbsp ; cm / 87 & nbsp 15 january 1996 1943 1945-1949 '' ` total - '' ' footscray geelong colac , victoria 1949 chilwell 17 may 1922 don bauer
 don bauer
don bauer

donald charles `` don '' bauer -lrb- 17 may 1922 -- 15 january 1996 -rrb- was an australian rules footballer who played with footscray and geelong in the victorian football league -lrb- vfl -rrb- .
bauer , who served in the royal australian air force during the war , was from chilwell in geelong but could not play for his local vfl club in 1943 as they were in recess .
he instead made 10 senior appearances for footscray .
a defender , bauer joined geelong midway through the 1945 season and from then until 1949 was a regular fixture in the team .
bauer joined city in the northern tasmanian football association at the end of the 1949 vfl season , as captain-coach .
he had been offered the job a year earlier but was refused a clearance by geelong .
in his only season , bauer guided city to the grand final , which they lost to north launceston by 30 points .
in 1951 he left tasmania and became captain-coach of ballarat football league side geelong west .
he remained in the role for two years .
he was senior coach of newtown & chilwell in 1958 .
