fullname heightweight death_date death_place years birth_place position statsend originalteam birth_date guernsey article_title name
simon francis j. mcdonald 177 cm 28 may 1962 melbourne , victoria 1919 -- 1921 allendale , victoria full-forward 1921 footscray -lrb- vfa -rrb- 21 september 1899 20 frank mcdonald -lrb- footballer -rrb-
 frank mcdonald
frank mcdonald -lrb- footballer -rrb-

simon francis j. `` frank '' mcdonald -lrb- 21 september 1899 - 28 may 1962 -rrb- was an australian rules footballer who played with essendon in the victorian football league -lrb- vfl -rrb- .
a full-forward , mcdonald averaged two goals a game in his three seasons at essendon .
he came from footscray originally , competing in the victorian football association .
his first appearance for essendon , in round 10 of the 1919 vfl season , was conversely his brother paddy 's last for the club .
paddy played nine games for essendon in 1918 and 1919 .
mcdonald twice won essendon 's leading goalkicker award -lrb- now known as the matthew lloyd medal -rrb- .
the first was in 1920 , when he kicked 33 goals from only 11 games .
this included a seven goal haul against geelong .
he topped the goal-kicking again the following year , 1921 , with 17 goals in 10 games .
he captain-coached hamilton in 1922 and 1923 .
during the 1920s he also spent some time in charge of south ballarat .
