heightweight death_place death_date years clubs article_title debutstadium statsend originalteam birth_date debutdate debutopponent debutteam name
185cm / 80kg albury , new south wales 28 march 1954 1931-1935 richmond doug strang
 princes park 1935 jindera/east albury 12 july 1912 1931 carlton richmond doug strang
doug strang

doug strang was an australian rules footballer who played as a full forward in the vfl between 1931 and 1935 for the richmond football club .
strang was originally recruited from jindera as part of a major country recruiting drive by the tigers , who were eager to break a run of grand final losses to collingwood dating back to 1927 .
in just his second vfl game , his 14 goals kicked against north melbourne in 1931 still stands to this day as the record for the most goals kicked by a richmond player in a single game , and as the youngest player to kick ten or more goals in a vfl game , at just 18 years and 300 days old .
in his first season strang 's brilliant overhead marking , in spite of exceptionally wet weather for much of the winter , brought him sixty-eight goals with long drop kicks .
in 1932 , strang struggled severely in another rainy winter , but from the time he kicked a goal after the bell to end an eleven match winning streak by carlton , his brilliant marking asserted itself , most notably in a wonderful display on a dry ground in the second-semi-final .
1933 saw strang begin to suffer from injuries later in the season .
after he had seemingly returned to his best form with ten goals at arden street in the thirteenth round , strang damaged a thigh when playing for the tigers against the ballarat league between the fifteenth and sixteenth rounds , and due to knee problems was not at his best when returning for the finals .
when the 1934 season opened it was thought doug strang would be fully fit , but after one impressive match in the second round against st. kilda , it was soon discovered that the knee required an operation to repair a slipped disc , and strang did not play again until the fourteenth round against carlton .
after that , however , the disc incapacitated him once more and he was a passenger on the forward flank by the seventeenth round .
these injuries meant strang left richmond during 1935 , but he continued to play for kyneton in 1936 before returning to albury as a hotelier in 1937 after it was thought he would go back to richmond .
strang continuing to kick many goals in the local leagues : in one game in 1939 he kicked 20 , and he captain-coached albury to two premierships in 1939 and 1940 .
he was the brother of dual richmond premiership player gordon strang , st kilda footballer colin strang , and south melbourne footballer alan strang .
he was the father of dual richmond premiership player geoff strang , and the uncle of richmond premiership player john perry .
in addition to his footballing ability , strang was an excellent bowler in country cricket for a number of years , in one innings for kyneton he took six wickets for four runs each .
strang did tragically at the age of just forty-one when he was hit by a car on dean street in albury .
