Today we remember Don Cordner on what would have been his 104th birthday.

Don Cordner (21 January 1922 – 13 May 2009)

Career highlights

2× VFL premierships: 1941, 1948

Brownlow Medallist: 1946

Keith 'Bluey' Truscott Medallist: 1943

Melbourne captain: 1948–1949

Melbourne Team of the Century–back pocket

Melbourne Hall of Fame–Legend status

2× Sporting Life team of the year: 1947, 1949

Sources: AFL Tables, AustralianFootball.com

The Cordners are one of the great football dynasties of the Melbourne Football club spanning three generations.

Thanks WJ. I love your contributions which remind us of the history of our great club. Can I just check whether it's three or four generations, when you include Harriet Cordner? This article suggests it's four, although it may not be four in a consecutive line (ie, I don't know if Harriet is the daughter of David (1980s player) or from a different line).

The Footballing Cordners (first published in the Town Crier)

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44 minutes ago, Whispering_Jack said:

Today we remember Don Cordner on what would have been his 104th birthday.

Don Cordner (21 January 1922 – 13 May 2009)

Career highlights

2× VFL premierships: 1941, 1948

Brownlow Medallist: 1946

Keith 'Bluey' Truscott Medallist: 1943

Melbourne captain: 1948–1949

Melbourne Team of the Century–back pocket

Melbourne Hall of Fame–Legend status

2× Sporting Life team of the year: 1947, 1949

Sources: AFL Tables, AustralianFootball.com

The Cordners are one of the great football dynasties of the Melbourne Football club spanning three generations.

It's not struck before, but love-child (love-forebear?) of D.Schwartz and D.Neitz?