years death_place death_date clubs birth_place position statsend birth_date article_title name
1932 -- 1946 chiltern , victoria 20 july 1979 prahran brunswick , victoria forward 1947 7 december 1908 george hawkins -lrb- footballer -rrb-
 george hawkins
george hawkins -lrb- footballer -rrb-

george william hawkins -lrb- 7 december 1908 -- 20 july 1979 -rrb- was an australian rules footballer who played with prahran in the victorian football association -lrb- vfa -rrb- .
hawkins was a full-forward and centre half-forward for prahran during the 1930s .
he began his senior career in 1932 , and became a prolific goalkicker during the era .
he scored his first century of goals in the 1934 season , kicking 107 goals .
he was a premiership player with prahran in 1937 , and kicked six goals in that season 's grand final .
in 1939 , hawkins kicked a new association record of 164 goals and was the vfa leading goalkicker for the only time in his career ; his record surpassed western australian george doig 's national senior record of 152 goals , although hawkins ' claim to the record was disputed because the vfa , having introduced the throw-pass rule in 1938 , was no longer considered to be playing the national code .
hawkins retired during the 1940 season due to ongoing difficulties with an ankle injury ; at this stage , he had a career total of 596 goals .
but , he returned to play in september that same year , and was still with the club in 1946 , leading the club as captain its association rules exhibition match in broken hill following that season .
after he retired altogether , he had played a total of 151 games and kicked 657 goals for prahran .
hawkins also played district cricket for the prahran cricket club , and he played one first-class match for victoria against tasmania in launceston in 1933/34 .
