Ken Farmer - Goal Kicking Machine Multi-Cache

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Hidden : 1/8/2011
Difficulty:
2.5 out of 5
Terrain:
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Size: Size: micro (micro)

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Ken Farmer 1910-1982. Australian Football League record 1419 goals at 6,33 goals per game average.

SANFL career
In 1929 the 18-year-old Farmer debuted in the North Adelaide League side. Playing at full-forward in his first season, he kicked an impressive 62 goals in only 14 games. In 1930 he became the first SANFL player to kick over 100 goals in a season. He repeated this feat for the next ten seasons.

He played in the winning 1930 Grand Final side despite the great personal distress of his brother Elliot's death weeks earlier from a motorcycle crash that also involved Ken. In 1931 he kicked his 125th goal (exceeding Gordon Coventry's VFL record of 124) in a winning Grand Final performance.

Farmer captained North for five seasons (1934–1935, 1937–1938, 1941) and was club best and fairest in 1936.

Farmer's great goal scoring came from many attributes. His goals came readily, from superb concentration and the ability to read the play and be in position. Not only was he a brilliant fast lead, but Farmer was described as having a very powerful grip and hence a strong mark. He was unnervingly accurate shooting for goals with the screw and flat punts (drop punts not being part of the game at that time).

Farmer's goalscoring prowess was also evident when representing South Australia in interstate matches, where he averaged five goals per game.

Farmer's playing career ended when he went into the wartime RAAF. He took over the reins of coach for North Adelaide for four seasons from 1949, winning the premiership twice (1949, 1952).

Record
In South Australia Farmer was known as "The Bradman of Goalkickers", a reference to the contemporary prolific cricket runscorer, Donald Bradman. Farmer's goalkicking was certainly prolific.

Farmer's SANFL goalkicking record:

1929 62 goals
1930 105
1931 126
1932 102
1933 112
1934 106
1935 128
1936 134
1937 108
1938 112
1939 113
1940 123
1941 86

In 13 seasons Farmer kicked 1419 goals from 224 games, thus being the highest goal scorer in the history of league football, a record that stands to this day. His total and average of 6.33 goals per game exceeds that of even VFL legends such as Peter McKenna, Gordon Coventry and Tony Lockett (VFL/AFL record 1360 goals). On 35 occasions he kicked 10 goals or more. In 224 games he was only held goalless once, when he was carried off injured after 10 minutes of play.

He holds the equal record for most goals kicked in a SANFL match with 23 goals against West Torrens. His 23.6 were a contribution to his side's winning score of 26.11.

Highest tally against other SANFL Clubs

West Torrens 23
South Adelaide 16
Glenelg 15
Norwood 13
West Adelaide 13
Sturt 13
Port Adelaide 12

Honours
Farmer was made a Life Member of the North Adelaide Football Club in 1937. In 1980 the "Ken Farmer Gates" were dedicated on the eastern side of North Adelaide's home ground, Prospect Oval. Since 1981 the leading goalkicker in the SANFL each season has been awarded the "Ken Farmer Medal".

Surprisingly left out of the initial inductees to the Australian Football Hall of Fame in 1996, he was inducted in 1998.

In 2000 Farmer was the inevitable selection as full forward in North Adelaide's official 'Team of the Twentieth Century'.

Farmer was an inaugural inductee to the SANFL Hall of Fame in 2002.

Amazingly he never won the Magary Medal,
and was North Adelaide's Best & Fairest only once,

This is a simple 2 part multi.
At the Ken Farmer Gates find a sign just to the north of the gates. The sign shows the opening times for the gates.
To find the last 3 numbers of the south & east coordinates, extract the information from the sign using the following method.

South >
a=3rd word/6th letter.
b=1st word/3rd letter
c=2nd word/2nd letter

East >
x=1st word/3rd letter
y=3rd word/1st letter
z=1st word/3rd letter

Where Letter
A=0
C=1
D=2
E=3
F=4
G=5
H=6
I=7
L=8
N=9

Cache is at S34' 53.abc E138' 36.xyz
Please ignore title of sign "City of Prospect"

Additional Hints (Decrypt)

1. Lbh ner ybbxvat sbe na rpyvcfr gva Lbh jvyy arrq gb ybbx ng gur evtug natyr gb fcbg gur pnpur. 2. Bireync..... Jrfg fvqr fgbel.

Decryption Key

A|B|C|D|E|F|G|H|I|J|K|L|M
-------------------------
N|O|P|Q|R|S|T|U|V|W|X|Y|Z

(letter above equals below, and vice versa)


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